5 injured on ground in fatal Philadelphia plane crash remain hospitalized, 3 in critical condition: mayor
Three people injured on the ground when a jet crashed in a busy Philadelphia neighborhood, killing seven people, remain in critical condition, Mayor Cherelle Parker said Sunday.Parker said 22 people were injured and five of them remain hospitalized.At least 11 homes were significantly damaged, along with some businesses.“Our city continues to mourn their loss and they are in our thoughts are prayers,” Parker said of the deceased victims.A Mexico-bound air ambulance plummeted to the ground Friday evening, less than a minute after it had taken off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport with six people on board, including a girl who had spent months being treated at a city hospital.One of the deceased was killed inside a car as debris from the Learjet 55 crash exploded into the neighborhood, damaging nearby homes.The investigation into the crash remained ongoing, Parker said, adding that officials were going door-to-door to seek information from neighborhood residents.The crash came just two days after the deadliest U.S.
air disaster in a generation, when an American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided in midair in Washington, D.C., with an Army helicopter carrying three soldiers.There were no survivors.A busy thoroughfare near crash site remained closed Sunday, but police said Roosevelt Boulevard would reopen by rush hour Monday morning.The neighborhood known as Castor Gardens is a working class area of dense row homes, said state Rep.
Jared Solomon, who grew up there.It’s a busy commercial and residential area crisscrossed by heavy traffic.“These are just people who want to help others,” Solomon said Sunday.
“They’re nurses, they’re construction workers, they are first responders.In a community that is always poised to help others in and around our city, now we sort of are able to turn inward and all unite together.”The plane, bound for Tijuana after a scheduled stop in Missouri, had reached about 1,500 feet (457 ...