COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- An 80-year-old pilot who crashed his homemade airplane near his Ohio home said the accident was his fault, not the plane's.
Kenny Rauch walked away from Sunday's crash of his single-engine, one-person plane, which he completed building in the spring after three years of work, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
Rauch had toured airports in the Ohio towns of Mount Vernon, Coshocton and Newark and was coming in for a landing on a 1,600-foot grass strip on his property in Licking County shortly after 10 a.m.
The plane's tail struck the ground, then the nose followed, which made the craft roll over and end up on its top.
"I landed too short on the runway and it flipped over," Rauch said.
The plane had been inspected and approved for flight by the Federal Aviation Administration, he said. UPI
