Plane Crash

Authorities have identified the pilot who died in a plane crash near Brainerd. The Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office says 55-year-old Dan Steffen, of Crosslake, died at the scene Sunday morning on Upper Whitefish Lake.

A small experimental aircraft has crashed in Upper Whitefish Lake near Brainerd. The Federal Aviation Administration confirms the crash killed the pilot and injured a passenger.

A Melrose native has been killed in a plane crash in California. Twenty-four-year-old David Ostendorf died in the crash near the Monterey Airport on Sunday.

A local sheriff says three adults have died in the crash of a small plane in central Minnesota's McLeod County. McLeod County Sheriff Scott Rehmann says the plane went down in a field about four miles north of Glencoe and broke apart.

A Princeton man walked away from a plane crash this (Tuesday) morning in Sherburne County. Sheriff Joel Brott says 33-year-old Barry Ramage took off from the Princeton airport in his Cessna 152 airplane just before 11:00 a.m.

The National Transportation Safety Board says pilot error was largely to blame for a 2008 business jet crash in Minnesota that killed eight people. The Hawker Beechcraft jet crashed July 31, 2008, while attempting a go-around after touching down at the airport in Owatonna, in southern Minnesota.

The National Transportation Safety Board meets in Washington on Tuesday to consider a final report on a 2008 plane crash in Owatonna, Minn., that killed eight people. The Hawker Beechcraft jet crashed July 31, 2008, while attempting a go-around after touching down at the Owatonna airport.

The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate a light plane crash near the Lake Elmo airport. Washington County authorities received a call around 5:15 p.m. Saturday from the Federal Aviation Administration of a plane that needed to make an emergency landing.