Emergency crews are responding to an explosion in Northeast Philadelphia after a small plane crashed in the area of Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue, according to police.

The Learjet 55 crashed near the Roosevelt Mall in northeast Philadelphia around 6:30 p.m. after departing from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, according to authorities. "Many people on the ground – in parking lots,

The aircraft came down just after 6 p.m. near the Roosevelt Mall, damaging “several” homes and vehicles, as it erupted in a fireball