First-responders unaware. The fire call at 12:20 p.m. was to a disastrous house fire. First-responders were unaware on arrival that the cause was a plane crash. The house was at 10792 Kyle Avenue near Great River Road and Noble Parkway. Image: Mike Deyo
Iowa plane on landing path to runway six miles away
BROOKYN PARK, Minn. – A small plane believed with four persons aboard crashed in a residential neighborhood in this northwest Minneapolis suburb. No one survived. The plane struck a house, which burst into flame. No one was home. This was about 12:20 p.m. Doorbell video showed the plane, a Socata TBM 700, nose-diving into the house. The plane was on a 260–mile flight from Des Moines. It was six miles short of a runway at the Blaine airport north of St. Paul. The names of those aboard were not available immediately. The pilot was in a gradual descent for the Blaine airfield. Aviation experts theorized the plane stalled after losing sufficient speed to to remain airborne. The usual touchdown soeed for a Socata TBM 700 is 92 mph.
Dropped like a rock from sky. Doorbell video shows the single-engine plane in vertical free fall into the house. Image: Curt Leitschuh
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