Victims named in tragic US medical plane crash as footage of explosion aftermath revealed

The young girl who was tragically killed while travelling home from lifesaving treatment in a plane crash has been named.

The young girl who was tragically killed while travelling home from lifesaving treatment on a medical plane that crashed near a US shopping centre has been identified.

It comes as new footage shows the destruction left behind, with cars along the road nearby left completely burnt. Seven people are dead and more than 20 were injured.

Valentina Guzman Murillo, 11, was the patient who had spent four months at a hospital in Philadelphia and was returning to Mexico. She and her mother, Lizeth Murillo Ozuna, 31, were among the six on board who all died on January 31 (local time), Jet Air Ambulance told US media outlets.

Dr Raul Meza Arredondo, paramedic Lopez Padilla, flight Captain Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales and co-pilot Josue De Jesus Juarez Juarez were named as the other victims.

A seventh person who was on the ground at the time of the crash and died has not been identified.

At least 22 people were injured and among those still in hospital, three people are in a critical condition.

Valentina was killed hours after nurses at Shriners Children’s Hospital threw her a farewell party.

Valentina Guzman Murillo and her mother Lizeth Murillo Ozuna.

Captain Alan Alejandro Montoya.

The small jet – a Learjet 55 – took off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport at 6.06pm and reached an altitude of 1,625 feet before plummeting, according to flight data from FlightRadar24.

National Transportation Safety Board investigator Bill Hicks said the entire flight lasted less than a minute.

The moment the small plane crashed. Picture: X@inaya_bisma

Footage shared on social media showed a large fireball erupting in the sky and debris sprawled across the car park of the Roosevelt Mall as local police and fire responded to the scene.

Drone footage from the NTSB of the crash site released on Monday showed a large blackened hole in the entrance to the shopping centre car park, as well as multiple burnt cars among debris stretched up the road.

Debris and burnt cars could be seen stretched up the road. Picture: NTSB

At least 22 people were injured and one person killed on the ground. Picture: NTSB

A 33-year-old woman named Dominque was in a car while driving to the shopping centre when the plane crashed. Her cousin told NBC10 Philadelphia she was in medically-induced coma and 70 per cent of her body is burnt.

The black box has been recovered. Picture: NTSB

Investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) at a depth of eight feet (2.4m) and enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS), which could contain flight data, the outlet reported. The devices will be sent to a laboratory in Washington, DC.

Only days earlier a regional American Airlines flight and military helicopter crashed near Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC killing all 67 people on board both aircraft.

Flight 5342, which was being operated by PSA Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Airlines Group, was coming in to land at the airport when tragedy struck at about 9pm on Wednesday (1pm Thursday AEDT).