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.

Residents of a Florida neighborhood are hailing a pilot as a hero for his final actions before he was killed in a recent plane crash. Surveillance video captured the moment 59-year-old Michael Bailey and the plane he was piloting slammed into a residential backyard outside Tampa.

Michael Bailey, 59, was the only person onboard the Cessna 401B plane when it went down causing a fiery explosion in a Wesley Chapel neighborhood April 19, according to Pasco County Sheriff’s Office. The plane landed between homes, damaging one. No one on the ground was injured.

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

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