Oct
14
Plane crashes into FL mobile home, kills 2
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LAKE WORTH, FL (WPTV/CNN) – The National Transportation Safety Board began its investigation Wednesday on what caused a small plane to crash into a mobile home park, killing two people.
A spokesman for the NTSB said the pilot of the Piper Cherokee 180 died in the crash, as well as a woman inside a mobile home. No one else was on board the plane, and no cause for the crash has been determined.
Domingo Galicia said he called to his 21-year-old daughter when he heard the plane crash into her room Tuesday. Banny Galicia was asleep in her room.
He said when he tried to call out to her all he saw was smoke. She never made it out.
“I don’t feel anything,” he said in Spanish. “I feel like I’m standing on air.”
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said reports starting coming in around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday of a low-flying airplane.
Moments later it plunged into the Mar-Mak Colony Club mobile home park, fully engulfing two homes.
“They started an aggressive attack, brought it under control, kept exposures to a minimum to the two homes,” said Capt. Alberto Borroto of Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. “No surrounding homes were affected.”
Fire rescue has not released how many victims there are or if there are any fatalities.
Galicia says his daughter never made it out. He was left to make the painful phone call to her mother in Guatemala.
He said his daughter was an incredible woman, very hardworking and studious.
The American Red Cross is helping two families affected by the plane crash.
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