India, Feb. 4 -- A 10-year-old boy reportedly protected his little sister during the Philadelphia plane crash last week. Andre Howard is now recovering from being impaled in the head by a piece of metal from the jet that crashed, his family has said.

The Mexico-bound air ambulance crashed near Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue when Howard, his father and two siblings were in the car getting doughnuts. The crash killed seven people and injured many others.

"Heard what we thought was a car crash, but then you see a fury of fire in the air, then a bunch of debris shooting everywhere," the child's father, also named Andre Howard, told ABC 6 Action News.

"My son . tells his little sister, 'Get down!'" he added. "And he grabs her [as] I...