Police say the pilot in this weekends plane crash likely saved lives by crashing the plane into a parking lot while avoiding nearby homes and businesses. The pilot, two medical crew members and a patient were killed after the American MedFlight plane crashed and caught fire shortly after taking off from Elko Regional Airport on Friday night. The twin-engine air-ambulance plane was taking a heart-disease patient to a Utah hospital. Lt. Rich Genseal of the Elko Police Department said the plane went down in a parking lot for Barrick Gold Corp., where employees park their personal vehicles before taking buses out to a mine.