Aerial footage has captured the chaotic and fiery aftermath of a Pennsylvania street after a small plane carrying six people crashed.
Moments after taking off from the Northeast Philadelphia Airport, a twin-engine business jet crashed and exploded into a massive fireball on Friday evening.
United States Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy confirmed that there had been six people onboard the jet, which was a Learjet 55.
The aftermath of the catastrophe was captured on harrowing drone footage, which showed the chaotic scenes on the ground.
In the one-minute video shared to X, the busy street lined with homes and businesses was completely engulfed in massive, bright-orange flames.
Thick, dark plumes of smoke were seen saturating the sky above as dozens of fires continued to ravage the road below.
Several homes along the road were quickly engulfed in flames as emergency vehicles rushed to the scene, illuminating the area with their flashing lights.
Businesses near the Roosevelt Mall were also captured ablaze as well as several cars parked along the street.
The lit-up debris was seen scattered throughout the entirety of the neighborhood.
According to CBS, the debris reached as far away as Tyson Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard.
The fiery disaster was also captured on doorbell footage, which showed two unsuspecting people leaving their home.
In a video capturing the tragic event, a white object can be seen accelerating before a blinding light fills the sky, causing onlookers to react with fear and shock.
The people in the video were heard letting out gut-wrenching screams as they rushed back inside to shield themselves from the disastrous wreck.
The blaring explosion, which sounded like shattering glass, was followed by an orange tint filling the sky above.
Around 6.07pm, the plane had just left the airstrip of the Northeast Philadelphia Airport to begin its travels to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri.
Tragedy struck less than five minutes later when the plane lost control. Officials received their first call at 6.12pm informing them of the catastrophe.
Neighbors in the area told CBS that their homes shook when the plane went down.
A pilot, a copilot, a doctor, a paramedic, a pediatric patient and the patient’s mother were all onboard the aircraft, according to NBC.
The pediatric patient was a girl who had just received care for a life-threatening illness in the United States and was returning to Tijuana, Mexico.
‘All I can say is, the patient was sponsored by a third-partner charity to undergo life-saving treatment in the US,’ Shai Gold, a spokesman for Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, told NBC.
‘She did her course of care. She was going home,’ he added. ‘She fought quite a lot to survive, and unfortunately, this tragedy on the way home.’
Jet Rescue Air Ambulance does not believe that anyone on the jet had survived the impact.
The cause of the accident is still unclear but described as extremely unusual, especially if the plane, which is considered a ‘high performance’ jet, was cleared to takeoff.
‘It is very reliable,’ Todd Sheridan Yeary, a former FAA air traffic controller, told NBC. ‘It is very unusual to see what we’ve just witnessed.’
‘Something happened rather catastrophically after the aircraft lifted off,’ he said. ‘We don’t know exactly what that is.’
Air temperature around the time of the atrocity was 49 degrees accompanied with light rain, some fog and a wind gust of 30mph, according to National Weather Service data for Philadelphia.
Residents in the area were alerted that roads were closed near the mall. They were also warned to stay away from the flames and close their windows.
