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

The pilot killed Sunday morning when his plane crashed in a Wesley Chapel neighborhood has been identified.

A small plane crashed into a Pacoima parking lot Monday, damaging power lines. One person was taken from the scene by ambulance.

Police received several calls about a plane crash on Sunday afternoon. One of the callers told them a plane had landed in his back yard, unsure at the time if everyone inside the aircraft was OK.

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

As reported by fellow Gray Media station, WHNS, the Moffatt family was flying from the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area to Huntsville, Alabama. They report that the aircraft stopped in Union County to refuel.

A group of good Samaritans was caught on video working together to lift the wreckage of a small plane and free the pilot trapped inside after the aircraft went down in the parking lot of a Pacoima auto parts store.