Air traffic control audio describes the moments leading to the Philadelphia air ambulance crash. A mid-size air ambulance plane carrying a sick child and five others crashed on Friday night 31 January shortly after taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, plowing into a residential area and setting off at least six house fires.
In this audio, air traffic controllers can be heard trying to contact the Learjet 55 plane. Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, which operated the Learjet 55, said in a statement: "We cannot confirm any survivors. The plane was operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance and a spokesperson for the company told NBC News that there were four crew members, one pediatric patient and one guardian on board.
They do not expect any survivors according to the spokesperson. The plane was en route to Springfield, Missouri, and registered to a company operating as Med Jets, according to the flight tracking website Flight Aware.
TRAGIC audio has revealed the final moments of the medical jet that crashed in Philadelphia just 30 seconds after takeoff. Six people are now feared dead, including a girl who had just been through surgery and her mum.
Pilots talk to the control tower at Philadelphia Northeastern airport in what appeared to be a conventional [β¦]. Donald Trump responded sarcastically to questions about whether he would be visiting the site of the deadly crash over the Potomac River in Washington D. All 67 people involved in the crash are presumed dead, authorities said previously.
