Small plane crashes into USA mobile homes
This story has been corrected to reflect that the plane crashed in Palm Springs, Florida, not Lake Worth, and that the last name of the man whose daughter was inside one of the mobile homes is Galicia, not Gilicia.
“We’re very fortunate it wasn’t worse”, he said.
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.
Domingo Galicia said he was in the home when the plane plunged into his daughter’s room.
It’s unknown how many people were onboard the plane when it went down.
The crash took place just east of a drive-in movie theater, the Palm Beach Postreported. “This is all I have, what I’m wearing”, Galicia said.
Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Wednesday that he will retire after a 47-year career in law enforcement as the administration of the mayor that brought him to the city comes to an end.
She was a student at Palm Beach State College, was active in her church and enjoyed listening to Christian music.
– Michelle Quesada (@M_Quesada)Witnesses told me they saw flames coming out of a mobile home in the Mar Mak neighborhood. I want to have hope but there is none. He said employees there were reviewing security footage taken outside the building of the plane dropping from the sky.
Arthur Grimes, who said that his friend lived in the mobile home park, saw the aircraft falling out of the sky, crashing into the trailer park and then bursting into a ball of fire. “It just pounded, like an explosion”.
The crash is visible in security footage from a surveillance camera at the nearby Off-Lease Only auto dealership. People who called 911 also will be interviewed, he said.
“The door exploded open and I was screaming, ‘Banny, Banny, Banny'”.
Boggs said investigators are reviewing the video.
Authorities say the aircraft crashed in the Mar Mak Trailer Park in Lake Worth, about 3 miles from an airport that reportedly handles small planes.