Medical jet with six on board crashes in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 01 (BBC): A small medical transport plane crashed into several buildings in north-east Philadelphia on Friday evening, setting homes and vehicles ablaze and injuring people on the ground.

The plane had been on a medical transport mission, carrying a child patient and her mother, and four crew members.

"We know that there will be loss," Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro said during a news conference at the scene of the crash, calling it an "awful aviation disaster".

The six people aboard the plane were Mexican, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on X. It is unclear whether there are any survivors among those who were onboard the plane.

A spokesperson for Temple University Hospital-Jeanes in Philadelphia said they had treated six people who were injured on the ground during the crash, according to US media reports.

Three of those people have been treated and released, while details are not yet known about the condition of the other three, the reports said.

The child on board the plane was receiving care in the US for a life-threatening condition and was returning to Tijuana, Mexico, Shai Gold, a spokesman for Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, told a local NBC outlet.