Oct
14
Small plane crashes into Florida mobile homes
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Apart from the two mobile homes set on fire, the accident also sent back a black plume of smoke into the sky and left behind an “unknown number of victims”, according to local authorities.
She said she went to look out her door.
Mobile homes in the park on Mar-Mak Drive near the drive-in movie theater were on fire, reports indicated. While he said there was an “unknown number of victims”, he wouldn’t say how many people were injured or if anyone had died. He said 911 callers had reported a low-flying aircraft and crew arrived at the crash site to find thick smoke rising in the air.
“Where is my daughter?” he asked. A spokeswoman didn’t return a call seeking further comment later in the night.
After speaking to a reporter, Galicia began to cry and family members huddled around him, praying in Spanish.
A firefighter walks by a charred mobile home that burned after a small plane crashed in suburban Lake Worth, Fla., Tuesday, October 13, 2015.
The Federal Aviation Administration opened an investigation into the incident Tuesday evening. The Red Cross has been called to assist two families, he said.
By late Tuesday, the fire had been extinguished.
However, it remains unclear how many passengers were onboard the plane and how many trailer park residents were at home when the crash occurred.
“I was out front of my friend’s house smoking a cigarette when we heard this big plane come crashing down, and we thought it was going to do like one of those tricks or whatever, and instead of doing a trick, it literally went straight up and then came crashing straight down into someone’s house”, a witness told WPEC-TV.
Plane crashes into mobile homes in Florida, according to authorities from Palm Beach Springs, Palm Beach County.
FAA: Small plane crashes into Florida neighborhood
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