New photographs of the personal airplane crash in Philadelphia reveal the crumpled black field left over from the craft Tuesday.
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board says the black field was found on the web site of the crash buried eight toes beneath the bottom. Jet Rescue Air Ambulance confirmed that its Learjet 55 crashed whereas departing from Northeast Philadelphia Airport late final week.
The corporate mentioned there have been 4 crew members and two passengers on the airplane on the time – a pilot, copilot, doctor, paramedic, pediatric affected person and her mom. They have been all Mexican nationals.
The NTSB confirmed they recovered the black field on Sunday, however they didn’t launch photographs of the gadget.
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“Components will be sent to the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Laboratory in Washington, DC for evaluation,” the NTSB mentioned in an announcement Sunday. “NTSB investigators have recovered both engines. Wreckage recovery continues tomorrow and all of the wreckage will be sent to a secure location in Delaware for further examination.”
Black containers and flight knowledge recorders are instruments that assist investigators reconstruct the occasions that led as much as a airplane crash. They’re orange to make them simpler to seek out in wreckage, and are normally put in in a airplane’s tail part, which is taken into account essentially the most survivable a part of the plane, in keeping with the NTSB’s web site.
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Airplane crash in Northeast Philadelphia (X / @PhilaOEM)
The crash killed all these aboard the airplane in addition to one one who was struck on the bottom. These aboard the airplane have been all Mexican nationals.

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, middle, speaks throughout a information convention following a airplane crash in Philadelphia on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (Matt Rourke/AP)
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In the meantime, 38-year-old Jason Rodriguez – who was within the space on the time of the crash – stays lacking, in keeping with FOX 29. His household says he was buying after they final heard from him.
Fox Information’ Pilar Arias, Andrea Margolis, Greg Wehner and the Related Press contributed to this report.