Dec 12, 2005 6:06 pm US/Central
Family Struck By Runaway Plane Won't Return Home
by Sylvia Gomez
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
Funeral arrangements are being finalized for the 6-year-old boy killed in last week's runway accident at Midway Airport, but his is not the only family suffering because of that tragedy.
As CBS 2's Sylvia Gomez reports, another mother is shedding tears as well.
"She's been very emotional since it happened and crying quite a bit. But in the end, she's so grateful that she's able to cry," said Attorney Roger Malavia.
Malavia is describing the tender state of his clients, the passengers of one of the cars hit by last Thursday's runaway Southwest airplane.
Moses and a pregnant Lorena Galindo were driving home from a doctor's appointment when suddenly the plane came toward them.
"I mean, they saw the plane coming towards their car and they were still inside of it," Malavia said.
"There was tumult, screaming. He describes seeing liquid spraying across his car and smoke," Malavia said. "Everything was falling upon them. He described it as the sky was crashing upon them."
But the Galindos world didn't crash down on them as it did for Joshua Woods' family. The 6-year-old precocious boy died in the crash. His family has scheduled the little boy's family for Wednesday.
The Galindos are quivering still thinking it could've been them, their own daughter was in the back seat.
"They can barely bring it up," Malavia said. "They're own child escaped by just a few seconds the same fate."
The little girl appears to be suffering from what one lawyer describes as post traumatic stress. She has nightmares, talks in her sleep and cowers whenever a plane flies overhead.
The family has moved out of their home, just blocks from Midway Airport. Southwest Airliines has offered them temporary housing and a car to use, since their own was crushed.
The runway involved in the Midway tragedy reopens Tuesday.
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