Med Jets Flight 056

[4][5] The aircraft struck multiple buildings and vehicles during the accident, which caused fires and explosions that killed one person on the ground and injured at least 24 others.

[4][5][10] Jet Rescue identified the crew as Captain Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales, Co-pilot Josué Juárez, Doctor Raúl Meza Arredondo, and Paramedic Rodrigo López Padilla.

[6][15][16] The aircraft took off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport on a southwest heading,[17] climbed to 1,650 feet (500 m),[18] disappeared from radar,[17] then crashed 40 seconds later[18] less than three miles (4.8 km; 2.6 nmi) away.

[18] A doorbell camera filmed the airplane falling out of the sky, producing a large explosion with heavy plumes of smoke after hitting the ground.

[20] The crash was the second fatal accident involving Jet Rescue in fifteen months, following a November 2023 runway excursion at Cuernavaca Airport in Mexico that killed four people.

[14] On February 4, Jet Rescue Air Ambulance released the names of the crew and passengers aboard the flight: captain Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales, co-pilot Josué de Jesús Juárez Juárez, Dr. Raúl Meza Arredondo, paramedic Rodrigo López Padilla, pediatric patient Valentina Guzmán Murillo and her mother Lizeth Murillo Ozuna.

[17] On February 2, the NTSB recovered the cockpit voice recorder, the enhanced ground proximity warning system, which could contain flight data, and the two engines of the aircraft.

[24] Mike Driscoll, councilmember of the 6th District of the Philadelphia City Council and chair of the Transportation and Utilities Committee,[27] described the situation as an active emergency response with reported mass casualties.

"[12] Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum expressed condolences to the crash fatalities and ordered the Secretary of Foreign Affairs to assist their families.

Ring doorbell footage of Flight 056 crashing
Map of the crash
NTSB investigators at the crash scene on February 2
Cockpit voice recorder (CVR) recovered by NTSB from the crash site