Plane Crashes Into Mobile Home Park In Lake Worth, Florida

A small plane crashed into a Florida mobile home park Tuesday, killing the pilot and one person on the ground, the National Transportation Safety Board said.

NTSB air safety investigator Dan Boggs earlier addressed media at the Mar Mak Colony Club mobile home park in Lake Worth, where he said investigators would remain for at least two days.

"At approximately 5:33 p.m. (Tuesday) a Cherokee 180 crashed here at the mobile home park," Boggs said.

The victim on the ground was in the mobile home hit by the plane, Boggs said. Authorities believe
the pilot was the only person on board the plane, and Boggs was not aware of anyone else being injured on the ground -- although a neighboring mobile home was set on fire.

"We're very fortunate that in a mobile home park it wasn't larger -- and only two homes were affected," Boggs said. "The plane is destroyed."

Boggs said the Palm Beach medical examiner would be responsible for identifying both victims.

He said the aircraft had been flying from Orlando to Lantana, Florida, but that it would be a couple of days before its exact course could be confirmed. There had been no distress calls as far as he was aware but that was being investigated.

"We're wanting to know not just why the accident happened, but we also want to understand what happened and we're going to prevent it in the future," Boggs said. "Specifically, we are there to find out if anything was wrong with the airplane."