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(USA TODAY) – A pilot and one person on the ground were killed when a small plane slammed into a mobile home park in South Florida, igniting a furious fire that destroyed two homes, authorities said Wednesday.

National Transportation Safety Board lead investigator Daniel Boggs said the Piper Cherokee 180 was flying from Orlando to Palm Beach County when it crashed into a home at the Mar-Mak Colony Club late Tuesday. The home was quickly engulfed in flames, and another home also was damaged, he said.

“we won’t speculate on the cause of the accident,” Boggs said. “We know that will come in time.”

The plane, registered to Fliers Inc. was destroyed, Boggs said. He said investigators were reviewing security video that recorded some of the flight, possibly including the crash itself. People who called 911 also will be interviewed, he said.

Thus far investigators have found no evidence that the pilot, who apparently was alone in the plane, issued a distress call.

“We are very fortunate in a mobile home park that it was a large (fire) and only two mobile homes were affected,” Boggs said.

Domingo Galicia told WPTV-TV that his 21-year-old daughter Banny was asleep in one of the mobile homes where the crash occurred. He said the smoke was so thick he had to flee, but does not believe his daughter escaped the blaze.

“Banny, Banny, Banny, come here, come here,” Domingo Galicia said he yelled.

“I don’t feel anything. I feel like I’m standing on air,” Galicia told the station.

Clara Ingram, who lives in the moblie home park, told The Associated Press she was home at the time of the crash and heard it happen.

“It just pounded, like an explosion” and then “nothing but a big ball of fire,” she said.

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