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Official Gov’t X Posts Spur Confusion About Philadelphia Plane Crash

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Two official government social media accounts made near-simultaneous posts containing contradictory information about a plane crash in Philadelphia on Friday night .

At 7:47 p.m. EST , the Federal Aviation Administration wrote that two people were on board the aircraft.

Two minutes later , the transportation secretary Sean Duffy wrote that “there were reportedly 6 people on board” It wasn’t until nearly an hour later that the FAA posted an update confirming the number of passengers was indeed six .

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