10-year-old superhero saved little sister in Philly plane crash, miraculously survives head injury: He wasnt supposed to make it
A 10-year-old “superhero” protected his little sister during last week’s plane crash in Philadelphia — and now he’s recovering from being impaled in the head by a piece of metal from the jet, his family said.Andre Howard was in the car getting doughnuts with his father and two siblings when the Mexico-bound air ambulance crashed near Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue just after 6 p.m.Friday, killing seven and wounding many others.“Heard what we thought was a car crash, but then you see a fury of fire in the air, then a bunch of debris shooting everywhere,” his dad, also named Andre Howard, told ABC 6 Action News.“My son … tells his little sister, ‘Get down!’” he continued.
“And he grabs her [as] I hear the glass shatter.I turn around, there’s a piece of metal sticking out of my son’s head from the plane.”A good Samaritan raced over, took the shirt off his back and put pressure on the wounded boy’s head.Then a city cop rushed him to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital, where doctors operated immediately.
“They told us my son wasn’t supposed to make it,” Howard said.“They also told us, ‘They don’t do children trauma.’ But they did for us, which was nothing but God.”Andre’s shaken mom, Lashawn Hamiel, told the station it was hard to see her baby like that.“As a mother what am I supposed to do?” she said through tears.
“But he’s good.He’s pushing through.
He’s strong, he’s a jokester, but he’s strong.He’s a superhero.”Andre’s dad said the same thing.“To face death yesterday and speaking today, stepping up for his little sister, like I train him and his other little brothers to do off of instinct — he’s my hero,” Howard said.Hamiel said doctors are trying to keep the boy stable and comfortable while they figure out how to proceed.The Learjet 55’s shocking crash injured 22 people and killed seven: Valentina Guzman Murillo, 11; her mother, Lizeth Murillo Ozuna, 31; Capt.
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