A small plane crashed into a home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on Saturday afternoon, with first responders arriving on the scene as flames engulfed a house.
The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) confirmed the incident and said no one onboard the plane survived, though the agency could not confirm how many passengers were on the aircraft.
The Context
A deadly plane crash in late January at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., claimed 67 lives as an American Airlines passenger jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. A series of high-profile aircraft incidents continued to make headlines in the following weeks as the Trump administration began making cuts to the FAA .
One such incident included a Delta Air Lines jet that took off from Minneapolis and flipped over while trying to land amid high winds in Toronto .
What To Know
The FAA confirmed the incident on its website, identifying the plane as a SOCATA TBM7 that crashed at around 1:20 p.m. ET. The plane departed from Des Moines International Airport in Iowa and was headed to Anoka County-Blaine Airport in Minneapolis…