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. It's unclear if anyone aboard survived.

Officials said they could not yet confirm how many people may have died on the ground after the plane slammed into a heavily populated portion of the city.

A small medical transport plane, carrying a child, her mother and four other people, went down in Philadelphia on Friday, in a fiery crash near a busy mall. The Learjet 55 crashed near the Roosevelt Mall in northeast Philadelphia around 6:30 p.