A plane crashed in a residential area of ​​Philadelphia

A medical plane with six people on board all of Mexican nationality, He crashed And it caused a fire in an urban area of ​​the city of Philadelphia, in eastern United States, causing an explosion and “Several dead “according to local media, although this was not officially confirmed at the moment. The incident occurred two days after the fateful plane crash in which 67 people died including an Argentine and his son.

The Mexican registration aircraft, a Learjet 55 that was used for the transfer of patients, according to the FlightAware website, took off from the city airport to Springfield, Missouri (center), and then fell to 18:30 local (23: 30 GMT), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported in a statement.

According to videos shared by witnesses on social networks and in the media, at the time of the incident, in an area of ​​houses, there was an explosion, after which fire and a large cloud of smoke were observed.

The causes of what happened are still unknown, which took place near Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue avenues, in the vicinity of a local shopping center called Roosevelt.

The Philadelphia Fire Department issued several alerts on a fire that requires all possible resources and indicated that it will only publish data in your account as they are available.

The city’s emergency management office also reported a “great incident” near the Roosevelt Shopping Center, which has forced traffic to cut, and published a photo in which a smoke is seen.

For his part, the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, described the accident as “a terrible aviation disaster.” “What we are seeing here is a unified response to a terrible aviation disaster,” said the governor at a press conference.

The incident occurred after, on Wednesday, a commercial plane collided with a military helicopter near the Reagan National Airport of Washington, which caused the death of the 67 people who were aboard both aircraft.