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Four dead in Arizona plane crash horror as aircraft erupts into fireball

06 August 2025 05:06 (UTC +04:00)

Four people died after a medical transport plane crashed and caught fire yesterday, APA reports citing The Mirror.

The victims were all medical personnel who were on their way to a hospital to pick up a patient, it has been confirmed. The Beechcraft 300 crashed on approach to land at an airport near Chinle in Arizona, US.

Police said "something went wrong" as the aircraft tried to arrive at the base in the Navajo Nation, an American Indian reservation of land. The reservation, governed by a Native American tribal nation, expressed its sadness at the tragedy, which follows a medical transport plane crash in Philadelphia earlier this year.

Federal Aviation Administration officials the cause of the crash in Arizona is not yet known. District Police Commander Emmett Yazzie said: "They were trying to land there and unfortunately something went wrong." He confirmed the crew was planning to pick up a patient from Chinle Hospital, a small facility with around 60 beds.

But District Police Commander Yazzie declined to offer other details about the crash, saying he was waiting on federal investigators. The National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA are investigating.