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As the United States recovered from a mid-air collision in Washington, DC that killed 67 people, another plane crash occurred Friday evening when a tiny aircraft crashed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, setting many homes on fire.
According to local news accounts, it was a medical flight with six persons aboard.
According to CBS News, many homes have caught fire in a neighborhood near Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue.
According to Phillyburbs.com, a local news outlet, witnesses on social media reported seeing an orange flash near Roosevelt Mall, an outdoor shopping center off the boulevard, which is what Route 1 is known as because it passes through the city before reaching the Bucks County line. Homes surround the shopping center.
According to emergency transmissions, the aircraft crashed near the 7200 block of Calvert area, a residential area, soon after 6 p.m. on Friday.
Meanwhile, authorities in Washington DC said on Friday that 41 of the 67 people killed in the mid-air disaster between an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, and a Black Hawk plane on a training sortie from a nearby military facility had been recovered.
The passenger plane was on a landing flight path to Reagan Washington National Airport, a key center for air traffic out of the national capital with 800 flights per day, when it collided with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter.
The plane had 60 passengers and four crew members, while the helicopter carried three US service men.
The National Transportation Safety Board, the lead agency investigating the tragedy, has halted all helicopter flights over the Potomac River, which flows near Reagan Washington National Airport.
Source: IANS
