Pilot and passenger die after homemade plane crashes onto Arizona road
The single-engine Acroduster hit a major intersection, only two days after another homemade plane crashed in the same state.
Tuesday 21 August 2018 13:28, UK
Two people have died after a homemade plane crashed on a road in Phoenix, Arizona, colliding with a car as it came down.
The single-engine Acroduster hit a major intersection close to the city's Deer Valley Airport.
Pilot Theodore Rich, 54, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
His passenger, 49-year-old Elaine Carpenter, died after being taken to hospital in a critical condition.
The driver of the car got treatment for head pain after initially refusing to go to hospital.
Both the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate.
Operations at the small airport, which does not serve commercial airlines, were unaffected.
It is the second fatal crash involving a homemade plane in Arizona in two days.
On Sunday, the bodies of two men were recovered from rugged terrain in Camp Verde, 90 miles (144km) north of Phoenix.