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Medical transport jet was in the air for less than a minute before crash in Philadelphia: NTSB
abc ^ | 02/02/2025 | Jack Moore and Bill Hutchinson

Posted on 02/02/2025 9:40:53 AM PST by BenLurkin

The Learjet 55, operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, took off at 6:06 p.m. Friday, climbed to about 1,500 feet and then rapidly descended, National Transportation Safety Board investigator Bill Hicks told reporters during a press briefing Saturday.

On Sunday morning, Jet Rescue Air Ambulance identified those aboard the crashed jet as pediatric patient Valentina Guzman Murillo and her mother, Lizeth Murillo Ozuna; Dr. Raul Meza Arredondo, paramedic Lopez Padilla, flight Capt. Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales and co-pilot Josue De Jesus Juarez Juarez.

The "high-impact" crash left debris scattered across four to five city blocks, Homendy said. Investigators have yet to recover the jet's black box, which she said may have been damaged or destroyed.

"It could be intact," she said. "But likely it is damaged. It may be fragmented."

Philadelphia residents or business owners who find debris should email the NTSB at witness@ntsb.gov, Homendy said.

"We're not going to have answers right away. It's going to take time. But as I get those answers, I'm going to share it with all of you."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: philadelphia; philadelphiacrash
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To: BenLurkin
In this dashcam video it looks like an explosion happened before the plane arced to the ground. It happens just above the nearest streetlight on the right.
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21 posted on 02/02/2025 10:11:03 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations.)
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To: Owen

On the doorbell cam that has been shown numerous times the reflection off an object to the right of the people show a flame coming out the back of jet, although that could have been one of the jet engines.


22 posted on 02/02/2025 10:11:27 AM PST by mware
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To: KeyLargo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGZTQqW_PsA


23 posted on 02/02/2025 10:13:24 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Before you post a nasty, stop and think: "Would that person slap me if I said it in person?" )
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To: BenLurkin

Hi.

My guess is a storage compartment was not secured properly and as the jet began the climb from the runway it opened and an oxygen tank hit the tail and took out the horizontal stabilizer.

5.56mm


24 posted on 02/02/2025 10:13:27 AM PST by M Kehoe (Thank you Jesus. )
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“All six people aboard the jet died in the crash, including the child, who had just received care from Shriner’s Hospital in Philadelphia and was returning home to Mexico with her mother. There were also four crew members on board. All were Mexican citizens, according to a statement from the Mexican government.

“Sunday morning, Jet Rescue Air Ambulance identified those aboard the crashed jet as pediatric patient Valentina Guzman Murillo and her mother, Lizeth Murillo Ozuna; Dr. Raul Meza Arredondo, paramedic Lopez Padilla, flight Capt. Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales and co-pilot Josue De Jesus Juarez Juarez.”


25 posted on 02/02/2025 10:14:09 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Another hard hitting piece of information from the pages of “It Is Obvious”.


26 posted on 02/02/2025 10:14:35 AM PST by Nifty
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To: Paul R.

I heard the 9/11 plane that went down in PA. didn’t have one intact object left, not luggage, people, nothing.


27 posted on 02/02/2025 10:15:29 AM PST by mware
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To: Blood of Tyrants
No load. Just three people and a donor organ......

I read that the aircraft had six souls aboard; two pilots, a girl who had undergone emergency medical procedures, her mother, a doctor and a medical technician.

28 posted on 02/02/2025 10:16:15 AM PST by jimtorr
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To: budj

Rain drop on the windshield maybe?


29 posted on 02/02/2025 10:16:58 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Video shows the aircraft on fire and a fiery fragment separates from it in that quick few seconds before it hits the ground. I think an engine’s turbine fragmented and just blew up.


30 posted on 02/02/2025 10:17:24 AM PST by Quentin Quarantino
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To: Paul R.

I have cousins in Texas who told me about charred body parts falling from he sky when the Shuttle Columbia blew up. They thought they found part of Mission Specialist Michael P. Anderson, but it turned out to be a radiator hose from a ‘62 Buick instead.


31 posted on 02/02/2025 10:18:17 AM PST by desertsolitaire ( Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bands final performance)
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To: Nifty

It was obviously a short flight. News to me that it was less than 60 seconds, though.


32 posted on 02/02/2025 10:18:29 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

THANKS


33 posted on 02/02/2025 10:21:12 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Owen
At least one video shows the plane burning as it nosed into the ground. Fire before the crash.

Juan Brown (blancolirio) on YouTube says no - that was just the takeoff lights. He suspects it might be a case of somatogravic illusion - the pilot climbed quickly into the overcast (400' ceiling) and got disoriented on the first turn. Plane was operating at full power and looked like it went into an excessive left bank, causing it to rapidly lose altitude and go straight in at a high speed. This has happened quite a few times in previous air crashes.

34 posted on 02/02/2025 10:23:09 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: BenLurkin

It crashed just two miles from the runway. So sub minute. i don’t know what the take off speed is.


35 posted on 02/02/2025 10:26:20 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: budj

The descent looked like a powered descent, like one or both engines were still running.


36 posted on 02/02/2025 10:31:20 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Owen

At least one video shows the plane burning as it nosed into the ground. Fire before the crash.>>>>
I think the videos i have seen are all in night mode so the plane lights and anything moving that fast would be distorted.


37 posted on 02/02/2025 10:31:34 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: BenLurkin

A load shift would cause a massive fireball??


38 posted on 02/02/2025 10:33:27 AM PST by BipolarBob (I've had enough! I'm moving to Slab City to be free.)
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To: Rural_Michigan

Which would mean the plane broke up before hitting the ground. Weird.
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I don’t think a body on a roof necessarily means the plane came apart in the air. At the time of the horrendous explosion there must have been a lot of stuff that went airborne.


39 posted on 02/02/2025 10:36:57 AM PST by iontheball
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40 posted on 02/02/2025 10:38:32 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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