A small medical jet carrying six people crashed in a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood Friday evening, officials said, causing an explosion and setting several homes ablaze.

A small medical transport plane, carrying a pediatric patient and five other people, crashed in Philadelphia on Friday, officials said, with a fiery explosion observed upon impact. The Learjet 55 crashed near the Roosevelt Mall in northeast Philadelphia around 6:30 p.

A small plane has crashed into several homes in northeast Philadelphia on Friday evening, local police told BBC's US partner CBS News. Two people were aboard the plane and there are reports of others injured on the ground, police said.