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The audio from an air traffic control tower at the Northeast Airport of Philadelphia reveals the horrible moments before a medical ambulance plane crashed into Philadelphia on Friday night while transporting a pediatric patient.
The audio, obtained by Fox News Digital, was recorded moments before the plane took off. The operators can be heard since they desperately tried to contact the Learjet 55 before it was blocked.
“What is happening down there?” You can listen to an air traffic controller.
“We have a lost plane. We are not exactly sure of what happened. So, we are trying to solve it,” replies another air traffic controller. “The field is going to close, so you don’t have to enter.”
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The first to respond work the scene after a small plane crashed in Philadelphia, on Friday, January 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, the company that operates the plane, said the plane was a 55 Learjet while leaving the Northeast of Philadelphia airport around 6:30 pm
The company said there were four crew members and two passengers on the plane at that time: pilot, co -pilot, doctor, paramedic, pediatric patient and his mother. They were all Mexican citizens.
Emergency personnel work on the site of a plane crash in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, January 31, 2025. (Reuters/Rachel Wisniewski)
The federal aviation administration confirmed that there were six people on the plane. The agency said the plane was heading to the Springfield-Benson National Airport in Missouri.
Air ambulance spokesman Shai Gold Gold, told Fox News Digital that the patient was a Mexican citizen who was in the US. Uu. For medical treatment to save lives. At the end of the treatment, she was released to go home.
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John Anderson, a pilot retired from Philadelphia, told Fox News Digital that, according to the video of the accident and the way the plane hit the ground, the probable cause was an takeoff post.
“The plane was out of the crew control. The flight to the ground was not controlled (CFIT). It may have been a mechanical malfunction of the stabilizer, the elevator, the ornaments or even a change of load backward inside the cabin” said Anderson.
He also speculated that “it was a medical flight with a stretcher on board and the stretcher was not properly secured, he may have shot back.”
Police vehicles block the area surrounding the site of a plane crash in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, January 31, 2025. (Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters)
“This would make the nose lift and stop the wing. In that case, the nose will fall with the angle in the video,” he said. “Because it was just after takeoff and the initial climb, I would say that it was probably an ascent position. There could be a series of factors that would cause a position. It could have been a fugitive stabilizer and malfunction.”
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The disaster on Friday night arrives just 48 hours after a deadly collision between an American Airlines flight and an army helicopter near the Reagan National Airport that resulted in the death of 67 people.
Jenny Deruff and Alexandra Koch of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
