Not strange, a violation of the FARs on minimum safe
altitudes, doing acro over a building, buzzing, and probably
a few others.

Anybody want to bet now that the two missing people were in
the airplane?



--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
some support
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| Feb. 12, 2006, 7:51PM
| Small plane crashes into home in Calif., killing at least
2
|
| By DON THOMPSON
| Associated Press
|
| ROSEVILLE, Calif. - A single-engine plane that appeared to
have been
| performing an aerobatic stunt lost control and crashed
into a suburban
| home today, killing at least two people and sparking a
fire that gutted
| the house, police said.
|
| The crash left a gaping, smoldering hole in the two-story
house it
| directly hit and set fire to an adjacent house, damaging
the garage and
| attic, said Roseville Fire Marshall Dennis Mathisen. One
body was
| visible in the wreckage.
|
| The Federal Aviation Administration reported two deaths,
including the
| pilot, and said two people were missing in the home.
|
| T. Sinclair, a deputy sheriff and deputy coroner, said two
people were
| in the plane. He added that although no one could have
survived, the
| FAA was not letting emergency officials into the house to
retrieve
| bodies until Monday.
|
| One resident of the house was missing, but it was unclear
whether he
| had been in the house at the time, Sinclair said.
|
| The plane - which the FAA identified as a 1996 Glasair
II -
| appeared to be doing an aerobatic maneuver when it crashed
just before
| 11:30 a.m., Roseville Police spokeswoman Dee Dee Gunther
said.
|
| "The pilot appeared to be coming down low for some kind of
maneuver
| that brought him to within 500 feet of the rooftops," she
said. "And
| then he appeared to lose control and crashed into one of
the houses."
|
| Rick Wurster, who lives about a half mile from the crash,
saw the plane
| attempting to make a figure eight.
|
| "He couldn't pull up because he didn't have enough
altitude," Wurster
| said. "I saw him do two spins and then go over the tree
line. A second
| later, I heard two booms."
|
| The pilot wasn't communicating with air traffic
controllers at the time
| of the crash, Gunther said.
|
| The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate
the crash,
| which also set fire to two neighboring homes, said Bruce
Nelson, an
| operations officer for the FAA in Los Angeles.
|
| "The main house has substantial damage but the other two,
their damage
| isn't going to be as much," he said.
|
| Roseville is about 16 miles northeast of Sacramento.
|