Kansas family's worst nightmare comes true after dad takes to the skies in his beloved homemade helicopter

A family faced their biggest fearfulness aft their innovative begetter flew his homemade chopper into nan sky. 

On Friday greeting Vincent Faber, 70, took disconnected connected his 'home-built type' Scorpion 133 Helicopter, but astir 8am nan chopper collapsed and killed nan beloved begetter successful Andale, Kansas. 

At nan clip of nan crash his kids were visiting him, but alternatively of spending clip pinch him, they were near to scheme his funeral. 

Vincent's boy Jeremey Faber said that his begetter loved thing much than to build and hole things himself- particularly his helicopter. 

Although his imaginative passion made him happy, Vincent's family ever feared it would put him successful harm's way. 

'Shocked, I was ever worried astir it; I’d ever spell retired location to make judge he was parked,' Jeremy told KSNW. 

The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office and Sedgwick County Fire responded to nan fatal clang connected nan 5700 block of N. 255th St. West. 

Vincent's sister, Patsy Faber, said she was 'shocked' complete his decease and she couldn't tummy visiting nan clang scene. 

'I person not been retired there. I'm acrophobic to spell to nan site,' Patsy said.  

Brittany Trotter, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman, told News-Press Now that Vincent's circumstantial chopper is simply a mini craft that tin beryllium bought successful a kit for owners to combine themselves. 

The shaper of nan chopper, RotorWay, nan 'largest kit chopper institution successful nan world', nary longer makes nan Scorpion 133 helicopter. 

From 1972 to 1984, nan institution sold astir 5,000 kits. It is unclear precisely why RotorWay decided to extremity producing nan circumstantial chopper. 

The craft is allowed to beryllium flown astatine a number of sites, fits successful astir garages, is lightweight and does not request to beryllium flown retired of an airport, according to the American Helicopter Museum. 

It is unclear what precisely caused Vincent's chopper to crash. The National Transportation Safety Board is presently investigating. 

The agency is expected to merchandise a preliminary study connected nan tragic mishap successful astir 30 days, pinch a last study group to travel retired successful 12-14 months. 

Jeremey said that much than thing his precocious begetter loved to activity connected his helicopter.    

'Always moving connected something, his hobby was his helicopter,' he said. 

Eugene Faber, Vincent's brother, took to Facebook and posted a heartfelt tribute to him. 

'I conscionable thought I would fto everyone cognize that knew my brother, Vince Faber that he died nan greeting of July 5th successful a chopper mishap adjacent his home. 

'He had a kit built Scorpion chopper that he built and was learning to alert it. The news said that location whitethorn person been motor problems.

'I haven't talked to his boy aliases girl yet. I cognize that location are group connected present that knew Vince and went to schoolhouse pinch him. I don't cognize thing other astatine this time,' Eugene said. 

In January, an experimental level aviator and 3 others were killed aft nan homemade level collapsed into California's Half Moon Bay. 

The pilot, Australian Lochie Ferrier, died alongside his task capitalist fiancée, Cassidy Petit, Willmer-Shile, and Isaaz Zimmern, nan boy of able Zoom executive Johann Zimmern. 

Ferrier was known successful nan 'experimental aircraft' organization and had graduated from MIT successful 2019 pinch an aeronautical engineering degree.

He worked astatine Beta Technologies - an electrical level company.

He moved to California to activity astatine Magpie Aviation successful Hayward, which specializes successful electrical aircraft.