APTOPIX Philadelphia Small Plane Crash

PHILADELPHIA—Three people injured on the ground when a jet crashed in a busy Philadelphia neighborhood, killing seven people, remain in critical condition, Mayor Cherelle Parker said Feb. 2.

Mayor Parker said 22 people were injured and five of them remain hospitalized. At least 11 homes were significantly damaged, along with some businesses. “Our city continues to mourn their loss and they are in our thoughts are prayers,” Mayor Parker said of the deceased victims.

A Mexico-bound air ambulance plummeted to the ground the evening of Jan. 31, less than a minute after it had taken off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport with six people on board, including a girl who had spent months being treated at a city hospital.

Remain parts after the plane crash in the Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport

One of the deceased was killed inside a car as debris from the Learjet 55 crash exploded into the neighborhood, damaging nearby homes.

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The investigation into the crash remained ongoing, Mayor Parker said, adding that officials were going door-to-door to seek information from neighborhood residents.

The crash came just two days after the deadliest U.S. air disaster in a generation, when an American Airlines jet carrying over 60 passengers and four crew members collided in midair in Washington, D.C., with an Army helicopter carrying three soldiers. There were no survivors.

Families of victims of the deadliest U.S. air disaster in nearly 25 years visited the crash site on Feb. 2 just outside Washington, D.C.

Dozens of people walked along the banks of the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport, close to where an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided Jan. 29 killing all 67 aboard the two aircraft.

They arrived in buses with a police escort, memorializing loved ones as federal investigators work to piece together the events that led to the crash. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Feb. 2 said he wanted to leave federal aviation investigators space to conduct their inquiry.

Compiled from two Associated Press reports