Chilling audio reveals final moments before Philadelphia plane crash: We have a lost aircraft
Audio from an air traffic control tower at Northeast Philadelphia Airport reveals the horrific moments before a medical ambulance plane crashed in Philadelphia Friday night while transporting a pediatric patient.The audio, obtained by Fox News Digital, was recorded moments before the plane took off.Operators can be heard speaking as they desperately tried to make contact with the Learjet 55 before it crashed. “What’s going on down there?” one air traffic controller can be heard saying. “We have a lost aircraft.
We’re not exactly sure what happened.So, we’re trying to figure it out,” replies another air traffic controller.
“The field is going to be closed so no inbounds-outbounds.” Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, the company operating the plane, said the aircraft was a Learjet 55 while departing from the Northeast Philadelphia Airport around 6:30 p.m. The company said there were four crew members and two passengers on the plane at the time – a pilot, copilot, physician, paramedic, pediatric patient and her mother.They were all Mexican nationals. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed there were six people on the plane.
The agency said the plane was heading to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri.Air Ambulance spokesperson Shai Gold told Fox News Digital the patient was a Mexican national who was in the US for life-saving medical treatment.At the end of treatment, she was released to go home.John Anderson, a retired pilot from Philadelphia, told Fox News Digital that, based on the video of the crash and the way the aircraft struck the ground, the likely cause was a takeoff stall. “The plane was out of the crew’s control.
It was not controlled flight into terrain (CFIT).May have been a mechanical malfunction of the stabilizer, elevator, trim or even a load shift rearward within the cabin,” Anderson said. He further speculated that if “it was a medical flight with a stretcher on board and the stretcher was not prop...