All 4 On Board Dead In Minnesota Plane Crash
All four people on board a small airplane were killed in a crash at the Faribault Municipal Airport, authorities said.Federal Aviation Administration investigators were to arrive Monday.
The four-seat plane burst into flames and scattered debris across the airfield when it crashed just off the runway around 3 p.m. Sunday.
“There’s very little left,” Faribault Police Chief Dan Collins said. Wind was gusting above 20 mph when the plane went down, but the cause of the crash hadn’t been determined, he said.
FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro said Sunday that officials had not been able to find a flight plan, so they were not sure where the plane came from or where it was headed. The FAA office in Minneapolis did not immediately respond to a message seeking additional information Monday.
The Cirrus SR22 plane was registered to Mayo Aviation in Aberdeen, S.D. Mayo Aviation has no connection to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, a clinic spokesman said. A person answering the phone at a Colorado-based company called Mayo Aviation said it also had no connection to the South Dakota company.
The remains of the victims were taken to the Ramsey County medical examiner’s office in St. Paul. No names were released.
A spokesman for the plane’s manufacturer, Cirrus Design Corp. of Duluth, declined to comment until after the FAA investigates.
Since 2002, the SR22 has been involved in 17 accidents resulting in 35 deaths, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
Faribault is a town of 21,000 roughly 50 miles south of Minneapolis-St. Paul.