[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.