Oct
15
Domingo Galicia sifted through charred debris with soot-covered fingers this morning, hoping to find something salvageable in the burnt wreck that was once his daughter’s room.
“One minute she was sleeping, the next, she’s dead,” Galicia whispered before picking up a pair of red, zebra-print shorts, lightly singed at the bottom — seemingly the only item not burned beyond recognition in the accident.
Brianna Soukup
He clutched the pair of shorts to his chest and cried out loud.
All that is left this morning of Galicia’s home is burnt furniture and the collapsed walls of a home that two days before was engulfed in flames following a plane crash that killed his 21-year-old daughter Banny.
Banny, a Palm Beach State College student, was sleeping in the trailer home Tuesday evening when a Piper Cherokee airplane slammed into the home.
Galicia scanned the remains of the home, noting all the belongings that were lost in the crash: money, his passport, old family photos from his old home in Guatemala.
“Nothing matters,” he said. “I don’t care about any of it. I will never see my daughter again.”
Pilot Dan Shalloway, 64, died when his plane plummeted into the mobile home park, just east of the Lake Worth Drive-In on Lake Worth Road, west of Congress Avenue.
Domingo, said he was on the front porch of their home when the plane hit, instantly killing Banny. Less than an hour before, her sister and her sister’s children were also in the home before they left to run errands.
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