An Airplane Crashes In A Pennsylvanian Suburb With Multiple Casualties
A plane crashed in the parking lot of a retirement community in suburban Pennsylvania, sending five people to the hospital.
The Beechcraft A36TC caught fire in the parking lot of Brethren Village in Manheim Township, as captured in dramatic video.
s flames consumed the jet and surrounding vehicles, emergency vehicles, ambulances, and medics raced to the Lancaster County site.
On Sunday afternoon, the jet took off as planned, but its door had opened, so it was immediately asked to land back on the airfield.
Horrifying audio from air traffic control showed the pilot ordering ground agents to turn around, but he also claimed that the unlocked hatch was making so much wind noise that he was unable to hear the radio.
“Pull up… the aircraft is down just behind the terminal in the parking lot tree area,” the air traffic controller can be heard saying.
Five individuals were on board the aircraft, an FAA spokesperson told DailyMail.com. Due to a variety of injuries, they have all been sent to nearby hospitals.
Authorities have confirmed that the pilot avoided surrounding buildings and that no one on the ground was hurt, despite the retirement home’s residents being told to “shelter in place” until preliminary investigations were conducted.
Between Fairview Drive and Meadowview Court, the plane crash set up a raging fire and set several nearby cars on fire.
Smashed up close to parked cars and encircled by dense black smoke rising through the air, the plane’s tail, bearing the code N347M, is visible amid the wreckage.
Brethren Village, a local retirement community, is served by the parking area where the plane landed, which is only two streets from Lancaster Airport.
It is believed that the aircraft was en route to Ohio’s Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport.
This follows an especially turbulent beginning to the year for the aviation sector.
In January, American Airlines Flight 5342 crashed with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter while it was landing at Reagan National Airport, killing sixty passengers, four crew members, and three US Army personnel.
US figure skating team members returning from the US Figure Skating Championships were among the passengers on Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas.
All six passengers perished in a medical jet crash in Philadelphia a few days later.
Then, above Alaska, a small plane carrying ten people crashed, killing all of them.
At Arizona’s Marana Airport, two planes crashed in midair in February, killing two persons.
One of the jets crashed adjacent to the runway, leaving behind a mound of ashes and debris, according to photos, while the other planes made a safe landing.
Shortly after the planes crashed, a dense plume of black smoke was visible over the airport and the surrounding area, and one of the implicated airplanes appeared intact on the runway as police hurried to the site.
