Fatal Crash of Homemade Aircraft off California Coast Raises Safety Concerns for Home-Built Planes
HALF MOON BAY, California – A home-built airplane that crashed into the ocean off the California coast is raising concerns about the safety of amateur-built aircraft, part of a growing hobby across the country. The single-engine Cozy Mark IV, which crashed south of San Francisco, was constructed over nearly a decade, one of thousands of similar planes registered with the Federal Aviation Administration. The crash resulted in the loss of four lives, with only one …