“We have a lost aircraft.”
New details have emerged regarding the passengers onboard the airplane that crashed in Pennsylvania on Friday, and chilling audio reveals the moments leading up to the crash, less than three miles from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, where the flight took off.
The jet, a Learjet 55 medevac flight operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, was carrying six individuals: two pilots, two medical personnel, a young female patient, and an escort.
According to Fox, all passengers were Mexican nationals. The patient, receiving life-saving medical treatment in the U.S., was being transported, according to a spokesperson for the flight operator.
Audio from the air traffic control tower reveals how controllers lost contact with the plane before the crash.
At one point in the recording, an operator asks, “What’s going on down there?”
Another responds, “We have a lost aircraft. We’re not exactly sure what happened. So, we’re trying to figure it out. For now, the field is going to be closed, so no inbounds or outbounds, probably.”
The cause of the lost connection and subsequent crash remains unclear.
Via Fox News:
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