Pilot tried to pull out of landing before plane crashed on the doorstep of a Texas mall

PLANO, Texas (AP) — A Federal Aviation Administration incident report says the pilot of a small plane that crashed and burned on the doorstep of a strip mall in Texas was trying to pull out of a landing before the accident. The Dallas Morning News reports that records released Wednesday show the pilot aborted a landing before the plane crashed on Tuesday. Plano police on Wednesday identified the pilot, who died in the crash, as 87-year-old Elzie Monroe McDonald of Arizona. Authorities say nobody on the ground was injured. Photos from the scene show the wreckage in a parking space just outside of the shopping center in the Dallas suburb of Plano. The crash is under investigation.