Philadelphia plane crash latest: Black box recovered as all crew and passengers in medical jet crash identified

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The black box has been recovered from the medical jet that crashed in Northeast Philadelphia on Friday, killing seven people, including all six passengers on board.

The device was found eight feet underground at the crash site near the Roosevelt Mall, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday evening. The black box – also known as a cockpit voice recorder – remained in “decent shape,” sources told WPVI. The plane’s enhanced ground proximity warning system, which may contain flight data, was also recovered, the NTSB said.

The Learjet 55 aircraft crashed on Friday night shortly after taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport at around 6:10 p.m., plowing into a residential area and setting off at least six house fires. The six passengers, including a sick little girl, traveling on the mid-size air ambulance have been identified.

Captain Alan Perales and co-pilot Josue Juarez were piloting the aircraft, which was transporting the young patient Valentina Murillo and her mother Lizeth Ozuna to Tijuana, Rescue Air Ambulance, who was operating the flight, told CBS News.

Dr. Raul Arredondo and paramedic Rodrigo Padilla were also on board to care for Murillo, who had just completed life-saving treatment at Shriners Children’s Hospital.




SOURCE: THE INDEPENDENT