It's a quick and nimble aircraft, a Belite aircraft, seen here in a promotional video, but Sunday evening, the whir of the engine was replaced with a much different sound.
"Heard a loud boom or bang or whatever," said neighbor Frank Robertson.
He lives just a few hundred yards away from where the aircraft owner lives.
"The airplane hangar two houses over," he said.
And that would be the sum total of the distance for this very short flight.
"He took off next door, went up, banked, turned and hit the building," said Robertson.
The propeller? Smashed to bits, the landing gear, bent. A red parachute, un-deployed. The pilot, alert and awake.
"He was conscious, looking around, as far as we can tell he may have bruised some ribs and maybe a slight concussion," he said.
A landing you probably won't find on a promotional video, but any one that a pilot can walk away from has got to be a good one.
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