A devastating plane crash rocked Northeast Philadelphia last night when a medical transport jet went down in a fiery explosion, killing all six people on board. The jet had just taken off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport around 6 p.m., only to plummet into a crowded area near Roosevelt Mall moments later. The crash lit up the night sky, leaving behind a catastrophic scene as first responders rushed in and investigators worked to determine what went wrong.
Fox News’s Bret Baier was one of the first to break into regular programming with the shocking news:
For the next few hours, Philadelphia witnessed scenes straight out of an apocalypse as residents and officials scrambled to make sense of what had happened.
Eyewitness footage quickly flooded social media. The first few videos showed the jet barreling out of the sky, heading straight for the ground. Several Ring cameras captured the horrifying moment from different parts of the city as homeowners ran for cover.
As the news spread, more footage emerged—showing the wreckage near Roosevelt Mall, as onlookers rushed to document the devastation and assist where they could. (Warning: Some videos contain strong language and graphic scenes.)
As the night went on, Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade took over coverage:
Then came the most haunting footage: the moment of impact, captured from multiple angles:
Some were dangerously close to the disaster. One man captured the moments right after impact while sitting in a drive-through:
Another horrifying video surfaced—showing a victim engulfed in flames, emerging from the crash site. Out of respect, that footage is not included here.
Authorities identified the plane as Learjet 55 flight XABMC, a medical transport flight carrying a pediatric patient and her mother, along with medical staff and the flight crew. The plane was en route to Tijuana, Mexico, with a planned stop in Missouri. Tragically, there were no survivors. The death toll sits at 7 with 19 injured, but that is expected to rise according to local sources.
3 out of the 6 people on board the flight have been identified. The first two were flying the plane: Alan Montoya and co-pilot Jesús Juárez. The third person identified was the doctor onboard: Doctor Raúl Meza. The mother and child’s names have not been released.
In the aftermath, X users posted footage of the plane’s remnants scattered across the crash site:
As the coverage went into the night drone footage captured the fires still burning from above:
And as the sun rose, daylight revealed the full scale of the devastation:
As someone who lives near Reagan National Airport outside of DC, my heart goes out to the entire Philadelphia community in this tragic moment.
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