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live from london, this is bbc news. seven people are now confirmed dead and 19 injured after a plane crash in the us city of philadelphia. further updates will be provided as soon as they are available, but i want to be clear that we will find a cause for this tragedy. three israeli hostages are
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freed by hamas in the latest in return, israel frees more than 180 palestinian prisoners. the west bank and gaza. president donald trump imposes tariffs on canada, mexico and china — three of america's biggest trading partners — from saturday. and in sport, salah helps liverpool beat bournemouth and nottingham forest hit seven against brighton. hello, i'm lukwesa burak. the mayor of philadelphia in the us has confirmed that seven people were killed when a medical transport plane crashed into a residential area of the city last night. all six people on board died, including a child, along
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with one person on the ground — another 19 people were injured. the crash happened only a minute after the plane took off. it comes just two days after a collision between a military helicopter and a passenger plane in washington dc. graham satchell has the latest. the moment the jet crashed, captured on cctv cameras across philadelphia, the explosion heard and seen for miles around. the plane came down in a heavily populated part of the city at rush hour. it set cars and buildings on fire, wreckage from the aircraft strewn across the streets. eyewitnesses described the moment of impact. ijust see the plane is getting lower and lower and lower and it nipped the house and it hit a couple of cars. boom!
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and into the plaza and dunkin�* doughnuts — everywhere. i have never seen nothing like that a day in my life. there was a big ball of fire just flew into the sky and the whole gas station started shaking. at first light, the full extent of the damage became clear — debris across a wide area and a small crater where the plane hit. the jet was carrying six people, all mexican nationals. they're believed to have been a young girl receiving life—saving treatment, her mother and four flight crew. all those on board were killed. the authorities say one person was also killed on the ground. we can confirm that there i were also a number of other victims who were injured in this incident and - they are being treated - in area hospitals, and thus far our count is that there are 19 injured victims. - but again this is not etched in stone. - the crash comes just two days after a much larger collision between a commercialjet and a military helicopter in washington. officials say 67 people lost their lives, including members of the american ice skating team.
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angela yang and sean kay are believed to be the youngest victims of the washington crash — their identities confirmed today. they were just 11 years old. in philadelphia, the federal aviation administration has now started their investigation as two american cities mourn their dead. graham satchell, bbc news. the philadelphia crash comes as american investigators recover the flight recorders, or �*black boxes' from the passengerjet and army helicopter which collided in mid—air over ronald reagan washington national airport on wednesday. let's speak to dr michael mccormick, who's an associate professor and programme coordinator in air traffic management at embry riddle aeronautical. i wonderfirst of i wonder first of some comment from yourself regarding the crash in philadelphia?-
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looking at? certainly, air traffic control needs to i looking at? certainly, air| traffic control needs to be looked at in detail, communication, procedures, technology and staffing are all relative to any investigation into an aircraft accident and, of course, the first thing i would want to do would be to interview the controllers that were in the control tower at the time of the event, listen to the voice tapes, get a detailed analysis of the radar tracks, and then start looking at the procedures and the air space in and around washington, dc to see if any of that could have been a fact in this accident. pa, have been a fact in this accident.— have been a fact in this accident. a lot of these factors _ accident. a lot of these factors are _ accident. a lot of these factors are not - accident. a lot of these factors are not new, i accident. a lot of these i factors are not new, there accident. a lot of these - factors are not new, there is legacy and precedent here, and you have mentioned a few of them, staffing is first off, there was a report that revealed that there was a shortage of some 3000 air traffic controllers. when it comes to equipment also, the same report underscored the
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for more, i spoke earlier to our reporter, louise hosie. yes. were last seen. but eliza hoosti's family in hungary have been informed. was recovered from the river.
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now, the sisters were last seen in the early hours a footpath that runs alongside the river. indicating that they wouldn't be returning to their flat. are with the hoosti family.
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happy and cheerful. by sea and by water, i should say, and by air and then a body was discovered yesterday.
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continue as nations across the world scramble to initially, the impact is all the threat of instability is on the american consumer consuming less.
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so we're already on fire sale prices for american consumers. however, these increases will change what gets produced where. and so we are looking at a staged, the first step would be impacting what gets purchased. in both economies. into a regional war. fight rwandan—backed m23 rebels, who recently seized
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