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ELDON, MO. -- Investigators with the FAA were in Eldon Tuesday afternoon investigating the crash of a small airplane Monday night.

The single engine plane, Zenith CH 701, went down at the north end of the runway at the Eldon airport, just west of runway construction. The plane was built with a kit.

Monday night's incident was the second plane crash at the Eldon airport in just three months that involved home built planes.

Kit planes are also referred to as experimental planes or home built planes. FAA officials said people must be certified to construct a home built plane; and the planes are must be inspected just like any other aircraft.

"FAA will look into it," Eldon Airport Manager Mike Hopkins said. "And if more inspections need to be done on planes, I'm sure they'll have more inspections."

FAA officials said home built planes do not have a higher crash rate than other aircraft and that two crashes in three months is "not really that unusual."

But that response is not good enough for Erma Kelly who lives just a few hundred yards away from the airport runway and Monday night's crash site.

"This one landed closer to us than the one did in December," Kelly said. "Right now we're sandwiched between the two accidents. And its very worrisome. Nobody should have to live worrying that an airplane's going to land on them."

The pilots were not badly injured in either Monday night's crash or the one in December.

But Kelly said safety needs to be addressed before a crash turns fatal, either for a pilot or an innocent passerby.