{"id":37221,"date":"2025-11-18T04:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/37221\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T04:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:04:13","slug":"lawsuit-filed-in-philadelphia-medical-jet-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/37221\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit filed in Philadelphia medical jet plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The families of two people who were on a medical jet that crashed in Northeast Philadelphia<\/a> earlier this year \u2014 killing eight people and devastating the neighborhood \u2014 have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging \u201ccarelessness\u201d and \u201cnegligence\u201d by the plane\u2019s owner.\n<\/p>\n

The motion was filed on behalf of Raul Meza Arredondo, a pediatrician onboard the aircraft, and Lizeth Murillo Osuna, who was traveling with her young daughter who was receiving treatment at Shriners Children\u2019s Hospital in Philadelphia. It is against Med Jets, a Mexican air carrier that specializes in medical transport.\n<\/p>\n

They were traveling from Philly to Tijuana, Mexico, when the jet crashed on Cottman Avenue less than a minute after takeoff,<\/a> sending a massive fireball into the sky and creating a crater several feet deep.\n <\/p>\n

Arredondo, Osuna and her 11-year-old daughter, Valentina Guzman Murillo, were killed instantly, along with the pilot, co-pilot and a paramedic \u2014 all of whom were from Mexico.\n<\/p>\n

Dominique Goods-Burke and Steven Dreuitt, of Philadelphia, were also killed after their vehicle was engulfed in flames. An additional 20 people were hurt. City officials later said 343 homes were damaged or impacted<\/a>\u00a0by the crash.\n<\/p>\n

The lawsuit alleges the \u201cdirect and proximate result of the carelessness, negligence, and recklessness\u201d of the company led to the defendants\u2019 deaths. It claims the company failed to \u201cengage in regular and routine maintenance\u201d of the over-40-year-old aircraft.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2676,22890,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-37221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-lawsuit","tag-ne-philly-plane-crash","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}