Terrifying footage shows medical plane darting into ground ‘like a missile’

This is the moment a medical plane carrying six people including a sick child crashed onto a residential street in Philadelphia.

Dash cam footage shows the plane nose diving to the ground near Roosevelt Mall in Northeast Philadelphia on Friday before bursting into a huge ball of flames.

Thick black smoke can be seen rising as stunned drivers get out of their vehicles to stare towards the scene.

The child’s mother was also on board along with four crew. Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, which operated the Learjet 55, said the patient was being flown home to Mexico.

A spokesperson added: ‘We cannot confirm any survivors.’

It comes just two days after an American Airlines passenger jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter in Washington DC, leaving no survivors.

Michael Schiavone, 37, was sitting at his home in Mayfair, Philadelphia, when he heard a loud bang and his house shook.

‘There was a large explosion, so I thought we were under attack for a second,’ he said.

The plane took off just after 6pm ET and reached 1,650 feet before plummeting, according to data from ADS-B Exchange.

The data shows the final speed of descent was 11,000 feet per minute.

Witnesses said the aircraft’s rapid descent looked more like a missile.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said at a news conference late Friday that officials expected fatalities in the ‘awful aviation disaster’.

‘We know that there will be loss,’ he said.

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