There were countless witnesses when a medical jet crashed near the Roosevelt Mall in Northeast Philadelphia on Friday night.
Many of those who were nearby when the crash happened took the time to talk to NBC10 and describe what they saw.
Here are some of their stories:
A man who works at a gas station just two blocks from where the medical jet crashed in Northeast Philadelphia talked to NBC10’s Siobhan McGirl about what he saw.
One man who works at a gas station that is just two blocks from where the medical jet crashed spoke with NBC10’s Siobhan McGirl about what he saw on Friday night.
He explained that he was at the door when the crash happened. He said that he heard this loud sound and the building started shaking.
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“It just looked like something from a movie,” he said.
He said after the loud bang, there was a large fire visible from inside the gas station. The man explained that he tried to keep the door shut so the other people would stay safe from anything falling from the sky.
“People kept trying to walk towards the smoke, there was black smoke. You could smell the jet fuel,” he told NBC10.
According to him, there was an entire line of cars completely engulfed in flames as well as a nearby home. First responders arrived very quickly and worked to keep everyone away from the scene.
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He was inside the Bath and Body Works store inside the Roosevelt Mall when he said the building shook.
“Out of nowhere, everything just shook. I thought the buildings fell or something,” he said.
He explained that he walked outside he saw what looked like a “huge explosion.”
“And then I see a person running on fire,” he said. “I can’t get that out of my head.”
Gustavo Chaves was home with his wife Sam near the site of the crash when he suddenly felt what felt like an “earthquake,” causing him to look outside and see an orange sky.
“(The) whole house shook. And then I was like, there’s an earthquake. Because, you know, (when) it happened I was like, ‘It’s an earthquake again,'” Chaves recalled. “I opened the window and it’s like daylight outside, like complete, just orange. And I was like, ‘Something really bad happened.'”
