TV: Are Homebuilts Safe?
Thousand of experimental airplanes are flying overhead. Some of them are planes built from kits in someone’s garage or hangar.
But how safe are they?
Federal authorities say experimental airplanes account for four percent of all the flight time in the U.S. yet they make up 24% of all plane crashes.
When one crashed in the Ozarks last November, it was the seventh in a series of fatal crashes of a specific kind of experimental plane, the Zodiac 601 XL.
The very next day the FAA recommended pilots stop flying those planes.
But where was the early warning?
This is the result of a two month KSPR NEWS investigation.
I was expecting the worst after watching the first few seconds of the video but I think in the end they did a pretty good job compared to the average TV coverage of similar stories.