A small plane traveling from Iowa crashed in a Minneapolis, Minnesota, suburb Saturday, investigators said. The Federal Aviation Administration said the SOCATA TBM7 crashed in a residential area in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, around 12:20 p.m. It was not immediately clear how many people were aboard the jet or if there were any survivors.
The pilot was the sole fatality and there were no other injuries after a plane crashed through the roof of a Brooklyn Park house on Saturday, officials said in a press conference. One person inside the home was able to escape without injuries. A second resident was not home at the time, Brooklyn Park Fire Chief Shawn Conway said Sunday.
The reports indicate the crash occurred shortly before 12:30 PM in a residential neighborhood located several blocks east of Champlin Park High School. Numerous witnesses have reported that the single engine plane crashed into a home and the house was completely engulfed in flames.
Brooklyn Park Fire Department officials confirmed that none of the plane's occupants survived, but nobody was injured in the house fire Saturday afternoon.
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The aircraft “made a sharp turn to the right of the runway and fell into the water,” civil aviation official Carlos Padilla said.
Maxim Naumov, a figure skater whose parents Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov died in the American Airlines plane crash in January, shared they had switched their flight shortly before the tragedy.