The National Transportation Safety Board has released new docket material on the Learjet 55 medevac crash in Northeast Philadelphia, focusing on the aircraft’s pitch trim setting and other evidence gathered in the investigation. The added material includes video, photographs and maintenance and operational records from the 31 January 2025 accident, in which the twinjet went down shortly after take-off from Northeast Philadelphia.
Investigators recovered a trim position of 3.97 degrees from the wreckage, below the expected take-off setting of about 5.5 to 5.6 degrees for the flight. The docket does not assign fault or a cause, and the board has kept its analysis stage separate from the factual record now available to the public.
The crash killed all six people on board and two people on the ground. The newly released material also points to broader areas under review, including crew experience on the route and Federal Aviation Administration oversight of the operator, though no final findings have been issued. The trim setting is being examined alongside other human and operational factors as investigators continue work on the loss-of-control sequence.