Number of injured in Philadelphia plane crash rises to 24 as investigation into cause continues

PHILADELPHIA -- The fig of radical known to beryllium injured successful the Northeast Philadelphia level crash is present 24, Mayor Cherelle Parker announced Monday.

Of those people, 4 are inactive hospitalized. Two of them are successful captious condition.

The fig of fatalities related to the clang remains astatine seven: the six radical who were connected the level and 1 idiosyncratic connected the ground.

Parker said officials are being "very careful" erstwhile talking astir the fig of injuries and fatalities.

She noted that the metropolis is moving with the forensics section and different partners arsenic the probe continues.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said a fig of factors volition beryllium looked into erstwhile determining what caused the crash.

"The FAA and the NTSB, they volition look astatine weather. Was determination aesculapian concerns? Was determination method oregon mechanical issues connected the airplane?" helium said.

Duffy noted that a preliminary study from the NTSB is expected successful 30 days.

ABC Philadelphia affiliate WPVI spoke with immoderate radical who unrecorded successful the country wherever debris came raining down. They accidental they're chiefly staying wrong arsenic the probe unfolds astatine their doorsteps.

"I inactive consciousness similar I'm stuck successful a nightmare. It's truthful weird," said Rayssa Reis, of Northeast Philadelphia. "Everybody's precise sad, inactive trying to process everything."

"It's similar a desert. Nobody, nary action, nary nothing, the stores are closed," added chap Northeast Philadelphia resident, Gloria Sokolowski.

The aftermath is inactive unfolding time by time successful beforehand of neighbors who saw crews tow distant respective of the vehicles that were burned aft the level crashed and exploded.

Charred vehicles are near amid the demolition aft a aesculapian pitchy crashed successful Northeast Philadelphia

Investigators are moving astir the interaction crater, adjacent to a Dunkin'.

Several pieces of evidence, including the plane's all-important dependable recorder, were recovered connected Sunday. The NTSB said the device, known arsenic a achromatic box, was buried astir 8 feet down into the monolithic crater that formed aft the clang connected Friday night.

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Investigators besides recovered the "Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System," which whitethorn besides incorporate formation data.

Both engines were besides recovered.

Neighbors are mounting up memorials by putting retired balloons and candles for the victims.

The fearfulness of it each is inactive precise caller successful their minds.

Kyle Sokolowski recorded a harrowing video from close aft the crash. He didn't initially cognize what caused the destruction, but erstwhile helium realized what was going connected and saw radical suffering from sedate injuries, helium stopped signaling and started helping.

The probe continues Monday into Friday's deadly aesculapian pitchy clang successful Northeast Philadelphia.

"The explosions -- everything happened astatine the aforesaid time, and you get this instinct if you're going to tally distant oregon you're going to tally toward it and assistance people," Sokolowski described. "The happening that helped maine woody with it is that I really helped someone."

He says he'll beryllium decompressing for rather sometime aft that experience.

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He is conscionable 1 of the firsthand accounts WPVI has been proceeding of however immoderate radical jumped successful and helped wherever they could.

Jet Rescue Air Ambulance has identified the six radical killed connected committee the flight arsenic Capt. Alan Montoya, co-pilot Josue Juarez, paramedic Rodrigo Padilla and Dr. Raul Meza.

Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales, Josue de Jesus Juarez Juarez, Paramedic Rodrigo Lopez Padilla and Dr. Raul Meza Arredondo person been identified arsenic those connected committee the aesculapian jet.

The pediatric diligent was identified arsenic 11-year-old Valentina Guzman Murillo. Her mother, Lizeth Murillo Osuna, besides died successful the crash.

One idiosyncratic connected the ground was killed. That person's sanction has not been released.

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