An eighth person has died months after the crash of a medical transport plane in Philadelphia, city officials reported on Tuesday.
Dominique Goods-Burke, who was in a vehicle struck by debris when the plane crashed in northeast Philadelphia, passed away on April 27, the city Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed. News reports indicate she had been out shopping with her fiancé, Steven Dreuitt, who died after their vehicle was engulfed in flames on January 31, and his son, who suffered severe burns.
A spokesperson for the Medical Examiner’s Office stated that Goods-Burke died at Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital. She was 34 years old.
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Colleagues at the cafe where she was employed declined to comment on Tuesday. They informed WTXF-TV, the station that first reported her death, that she was a cherished employee who worked as a baking supervisor.
“She was an amazing mom, she was an incredible baker, she held this place together,” Meg Hagele, the founder of High Point Cafe, told the station.
The crash, which occurred on a Friday evening near a busy intersection, resulted in the deaths of all six individuals aboard the Learjet 55 air ambulance, including a young girl who was traveling home after receiving medical treatment in Philadelphia. All six passengers were from Mexico.
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Officials reported that approximately two dozen people on the ground sustained injuries, and more than a dozen homes were either damaged or destroyed.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which is conducting the investigation into the crash, stated that the plane’s voice recorder was not functioning.
The Philadelphia crash occurred just two days after a midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter over the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., which tragically killed 67 people, marking the deadliest U.S. air disaster in a generation.
