Philly plane crash: Emotional vigil at crash site held for those impacted

Emotional vigil held for victims, neighborhood impacted by deadly plane crash

A vigil was held for the residents of the Northeast Philadelphia community impacted by the fatal crash of a medevac jet and to honor the victims of the crash.

NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA - Residents in Northeast Philadelphia are trying to put their community back together after a deadly plane crash took the lives of all the passengers onboard and one person on the ground.

Adding more flowers, more candles and a lot more of their shared sense of community, residents near the site of a deadly plane crash gathered five nights after the crash to help each other get through the shared sense of shock.

What they're saying:

"I think the beautiful thing about this is the diversity and the different communities that have come out together," Rochelle Holder said.

FOX 29’s Steve Keeley asked, "What made you come here with your flowers?"

"Because I was, like, two minutes from being involved in that situation. And, it’s just my respect for those that were and it’s touching my heart," she replied.

Northeast resident TJ Hoffer said, "It’s pretty tight-knit. We’re out here helping out that day and still helping out now five days later."

"What are your thoughts on everybody pulling together like this?" asked Keeley.

"It’s awesome. When you feel like you really can’t do anything, you can come and pray. It’s pretty awesome," resident Trish Ward answered.

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Wednesday night, there was no language barrier and emotion was seen on each and every face, no matter their background.

Vigil organizer, Miguel Andrad, stated, "Obviously the Hispanic and Latino community were deeply impacted but the Northeast is a neighborhood of immigrants, a neighborhood of families and what you're seeing is us coming together as Philadelphians. As a city of brotherly love and sisterly affection. We're taking care of each other."