Philadelphia Medical aircraft crash: An 8th person died of the accident in January, said officials

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An eighth person died months after the crash of a medical transport aircraft in Philadelphia, said city officials on Tuesday.

Dominique Goods-Burke, which was in a vehicle hit by ruins, when the aircraft fell in the northeast of Philadelphia, died on April 27, the office of the City Medical Examiner confirmed. She was shopping with her fiance Steven Drouitten, who died in flames on January 31, and his son, who, according to reports, suffered serious burns.

Waren-Burke died in the Jefferson Einstein Einstein Philadelphia Hospital, said a spokesman for the medical examiner's office. She was 34.

Colleagues in the café in which she worked declined to make a comment on Tuesday. They told WTXF-TV, which for the first time reported her death that she was a loved one who worked as a bakery.

“She was an amazing mother, she was an incredible baker, she held this place together,” Meg Hagele, the founder of the High Point Cafe, told The Station.

The crash, which took place near a busy intersection on a Friday evening, killed all six people in Learjet 55 Air Ambulance, including a girl who traveled home after medical treatment in Philadelphia. All six people on board came from Mexico.

Officials said about two dozen people were injured on the ground and that more than a dozen houses were damaged or destroyed.

The National Transportation Safety Board, which examines the crash, said that the language recorder on the plane does not work.

Philadelphia crashed two days after a collision between an American airlines and a helicopter of the army over the Potomac River near Washington, DC, killed 67 people, the deadliest US air disaster in a generation.