(Reuters)-At least seven people died when a medical retreat plane crashed in Philadelphia last Friday, including six Mexicans on board and one person on the ground, said Mexico’s president and the mayor of Philadelphia on Saturday.
Philadelphia mayor Cherlle Parker said at a news conference that the person who died on the ground was in a car at the crash site.
“So far, our count is 19 injured victims,” said Parker.
Separately, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said in an X publication that she had asked the consular authorities to support the families of the six Mexican citizens on the plane and died when he crashed.
Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, headquartered in Mexico and licensed to operate in the US, said on Friday that his aircraft fell with four crew members, a pediatric patient and the patient’s mother on board.
The child was a girl who returned home and had as final Tijuan destination, Shai Gold, who works with corporate strategy at Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, to the American station CNN on Friday. His mother was on board too, he said.
