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Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, the medical transport company that had a plane crash in the middle of a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood at rush hour on Friday, previously had a fatal crash in Mexico in 2023.
According to news reports at the time, the company had another Learjet, albeit a different model, crash at the Cuernavaca Airport in Morelos, Mexico on Nov. 1, 2023.
According to a LinkedIn post from Steven Shai Gold, who is the same company spokesperson who provided information in the Friday crash, a Learjet 35A crashed in mid-afternoon at the airport during a landing on an inbound flight from Tuloca, Mexico.
Five crew members were on board that flight. None survived. Unlike the Philadelphia crash, they were not transporting a patient at the time of the crash.
The plane that crashed in Northeast Philly was a Learjet 55 with six people on board. Two pilots, tow doctors, a nine-year-old patient who had a lifesaving procedure at Philadelphia's Shriner's Hospital, and her mother.
The flight was on route to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri where it planned to refuel before bringing the little girl home to Mexico.
Jet Rescue Air Ambulance operates more than 700 flights a year, and was the transport service that was used when Hall of Fame baseball player David Ortiz was shot in the Dominican Republic. It flew him from the D.R. to Boston for surgery in 2019.
