No, this isn’t video of a missile crashing into a Philadelphia neighborhood

Seven people died after a Learjet crashed Jan. 31 in Philadelphia, including six aboard the plane and one on the ground. Two dozen more were injured, and the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating. 

But some social media posts claim it was a missile, not a jet, captured hurtling toward the ground in a video shared online. 

"It’s a missile!!!!" reads text over the video that shows something white crashing to the ground and exploding.

"That’s a missile," a Jan. 31 Instagram post sharing the video said.

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The footage is authentic. The Associated Press posted it on YouTube with this description: "Videos capture moment small plane crashes in Philadelphia." 

Because, according to the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration, it was a plane — not a missile that crashed into the ground. 

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The plane, a Learjet 55, crashed around 6:30 p.m. local time Philadelphia after departing from the Northeast Philadelphia Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said. It was headed to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri. 

National Transportation Safety Board investigators have recovered the plane’s cockpit voice recorder at "the site of initial impact," its enhanced ground proximity warning system and both engines, the agency said.  

The plane, an air ambulance ultimately bound for Mexico, crashed in a busy commercial and residential area, The Associated Press said. It "plummeted to the ground," according to the news outlet, which quoted National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy as saying it was a "high-impact crash" that left the plane "highly fragmented."

We rate claims the crash involved a missile and not a jet False.