Plane nearly clipped the roof this afternoon.

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Dive Bar Casanova

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Plane flew low over the house engine sounded like the margarita blenders of heII gargling ball bearings.

Hit my sons neighbors house. They were ok, pilot passed away.
Homebuilt aircraft.
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Evidently was attempting to land on the fairway of a nearby golf course and sadly didn’t make it.

Second time we’ve experienced this.
 
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Plane flew low over the house engine sounded like the margarita blenders of heII gargling ball bearings.

Hit the neighbors house. They were ok, pilot passed away.
Homebuilt aircraft.
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Evidently was attempting to land on the fairway of a nearby golf course and sadly didn’t make it.

Second time we’ve experienced this.
That is insane, count your blessings.
 
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Neighbors had a backyard wedding last Saturday and a helicopter made some super low passes over it.

I thought something similar, but that loud, sick engine was the red flag.
Heartbreaking.
 
That's crazy, how close to the airport do you live?

A few yrs ago I was driving on a local freeway and up ahead of me I see a plane go cross the traffic and pile up on the center divider. The runway runs right into the side of the freeway. Great city planning!!! (NOT).
They had an engine fail on take off, right when the plane left the ground.
One motorist was killed, hit by the plane's landing gear. The pilot was injured but survived. It was crazy to see.

Years before that, a few days before Christmas, a plane crashed onto the roof of our strip mall. My brother and myself just missed being in the area that burst into flames, we were so close we felt the heat of the explosion on our necks and backs. I had an amazing 1969 Camaro SS. that I had just restored and repowered. The plane was hanging off the roof of the mall about 30' away from my car. The PD and Fire Rescue had the area blocked off so we couldn't get to my car to leave, and I wasn't leaving it in the mall parking lot.
Finally got one of the Firemen to take my keys and drive the car out to me.
When he got out of the car, his words were,
"this car is one bad MoFo and I don't blame you one bit for not leaving it".
Both planes were using the same local airport, it's about 2 miles from my house.
 
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If this is the one I heard about earlier it is no where near an airport. The flight was from Lancaster, Ca to Camarillo, CA. This was somewhere in the middle of the flight. I grew up in Simi Valley, CA where this happened.
 
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