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Audio from an air traffic control tower at Northeast Philadelphia Airport Unveiled the terrible moments before an aircraft for medical ambulance in Philadelphia crashed on Friday evening while transporting a pediatric patient.
The audio, which Fox News Digital received, was recorded moments before the aircraft started. The operators can be heard when they desperately tried to contact the Learjet 55 before crashing.
“What’s going on down there?” A air traffic controller can be heard.
“We have a lost plane. We are not quite sure what happened. So we try to find out,” replies another air traffic control. “The field will be closed, so no one and out-outbounds.”
First aiders work the scene after a small plane crashed on Friday, January 31, 2025 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, the company that operates the plane
The company said there were four crew members and two passengers on the plane at the time – a pilot, a copilot, a doctor, the paramedic, a pediatric patient and her mother. They were all Mexican citizens.
Emergency staff at the location of a plane crash in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, January 31, 2025. (Reuters/Rachel Wisniewski)
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that six people were on the plane. The agency said the plane was a Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri.
Shai Gold, spokesman for the ban on flight, told Fox News Digital that the patient was a Mexican citizen who was in the United States because of life -saving medical treatment. At the end of the treatment, she was released to go home.
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John Anderson, a retired pilot from Philadelphia, told Fox News Digital that the likely cause was a starting stand based on the video of the crash and the way the plane hit the ground.
“The plane was outside the control of the crew. There was no controlled flight into the site (CFIT). It may have been a mechanical malfunction of the stabilizer, the elevator, the trim or even a load shift back in the cabin,” said Anderson.
He also speculated that when it was a medical flight with a stretcher on board and the stretcher was not properly secured, it might have rolled back. ”
Police vehicles block the area around the location of a plane crash in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, January 31, 2025. (Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters)
“This would cause the nose to increase the wing and take a standstill. In this case, the nose will fall with the angle in the video,” he said. “Because it was right after the start and the first climb, I would say that it was probably an ASWING stand. There could be a number of factors that would cause a stand.
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The disaster on Friday evening comes just under 48 hours after A fatal collision Between a flight of American Airlines and a helicopter of the army near the Reagan National Airport, which led to the death of 67 people.
Jenny Dehuff and Alexandra Koch from Fox News Digital have contributed to this report.
