Decorated veteran pilot and aerospace engineer James "Tony" Moffatt died in a South Carolina plane crash, raising questions about a pattern of scientist deaths.

Arizona has reached the same number of fatal aircraft crashes and fatalities this year that it saw in all of 2025.

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The 70-year-old pilot of the plane was taken to a local hospital after the crash and remains in critical condition.

Richard McClung died in February when the small plane he was piloting crashed in a community between McHenry County and Rockford. A pending lawsuit accuses McClung, a convicted sex offender, of molesting a young girl while he was a leader and member of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregation in the early 2000s.

The pilot, a 70-year-old male, was taken to a local hospital.

A light aircraft attempting low-altitude maneuvers crashed after striking power lines on Monday, leaving the pilot critically injured and knocking out electricity in parts of the surrounding area. Footage posted on social media shows the single-engine plane descending close to utility lines near a California airport with a history of safety concerns.

One person was killed after a Cessna plane crashed into the yard of a home near Tampa, Florida, on Sunday morning.