2 Camarillo Crashes in a week

What: Experimental aircraft with a single engine
Where: Ventura County's Camarillo Airport.
When: Tuesday
Who: Pilot and passenger
Why: The plane had experienced mechanical problems and on return overshot the runway and flipped over just past the landing strip. No injuries.

This should not be confused with a similar incident Monday when another single-engine plane was towing a banner, flipped and the pilot was killed.

Vegas Crash results in Two Deaths

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What: Rear propeller speed-173 RG experimental aircraft came down in a residential area near the airport.
Where: Vegas, Cambridge Heights Neighborhood near Lake Mead, about a mile from the southern end of the Las Vegas Airport.
When: Friday Morning, 6 a.m.
Who: Two individuals living in the house, and the pilot of the plane were all killed. One resident of the house survived.
Why: The plane came down in the neighborhood. Eye witnesses heard the engine "in trouble. Cutting off" Because the plane had just fueled with 75 gallons which resulted in an intense fire. There have been 63 runway incursions at this location since 2001.

Washington Speed racer Dies in Plane Crash

What: experimental aircraft takeoff from the Richland, Wash.
Where: crashed on the runway
When: Thursday afternoon
Who: Pilot 72-year-old Charles Bigelow
Why: At 250 feet, the engine began to sputter and the aircraft crashed to the runway, killing the pilot

Emergency Landing in Lander Wyoming

What: 20-foot RV-6A experimental plane flying en route from Lander, Wyo., to the Lorain County Regional Airport
Where: Billings Road in Groton Township
When: Tuesday evening 7 pm
Who: Wyoming pilot Dennis Volger
Why: the engine suddenly stopped mid-flight with no warning

Experimental Plane Fatality in Broward County

What: Single-engine experimental Lancair aircraft using a 400-horsepower high-performance Corvette engine, taken from a car.
Where: North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines. Landed on a fence separating North Perry Airport from nearby tennis courts.
When: 6 pm
Who: pilot Douglas A. Pohl
Why: There was engine trouble immediately after takeoff, then the plane crashed and burned. The plane has a history of a fuel delivery problem (c. about a month ago)

*Update Authorities believe the pilot was trying to return to the runway when the plane clipped a fence surrounding a nearby tennis court. A witness said "He was at 50 feet, wing stalled, started coming over to the left hand, the left side and after that he just kept coming on around. He was upside down and came straight down.""

Acroduster TOO Crash, 1 fatality

What: Acroduster TOO: Experimental byplane stunt plane
Where: From Panama city
When: June 16, 2008 1:00 pm
Who: Pilot Kevin Gorham (killed) told the passenger Craig Ellis to parachute out.
Why: Passenger said, "Something in the controls ... the rudder or the stick ... got screwed up"
News report said "a malfunction with the engine."