Oct
15
At least three dead in Florida plane crash
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Investigators confirmed one woman on the ground and the pilot was killed. They also do not believe that there were any other passengers on the plane at the time of impact, meaning that the two were the only casualties in the wreckage.
The plane plunged from the sky at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday into the Mar-Mak Colony Club, a palm-dotted community of about 100 trailers bordered on one side by a drive-in theater and home to many Spanish-speaking residents.
“We are very fortunate in a mobile home park that it was a large (fire) and only two mobile homes were affected”, Boggs said.
Her father, Domingo Galicia, heard the falling plane but only saw the flames it sent through the walls of his home.
First responders and the sheriff’s department worked through the night to secure the scene, he said.
Stephanie Martin, 21, said Banny Galicia was her best friend and they’d known each other since middle school.
“I’ve never seen anything like it”, he said.
Authorities in Palm Beach County responded to a small plane that crashed into a trailer park in Lake Worth Tuesday.
“I don’t feel anything – I feel like I’m standing on air”, he said.
“Nothing but a big ball of fire”, Ingram said.
It “swayed side to side like sputtering for gas and all the sudden dropped and then blew up”, witness Arthur Grimes told the Palm Beach Post.
The National Transportation Safety Board “is in charge of the investigation and will determine probable cause”, Federal Aviation Administration Spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen told USA TODAY.
“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. After the plane had stricken Galicia’s mobile home, fire began to spread within it, extending to another nearby house.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
The Red Cross had been called to assist two families, authorities said.
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