A small jet crashed Monday, July 21, near Granite Falls Municipal Airport in western Minnesota, killing one of two people on board, according to multiple reports.
The Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office told KMSP-TV that it received a report of a jet having engine problems near the airport shortly before 5:30 p.m., and then minutes later received a 911 call saying the aircraft had crashed near Highway 23.
At the site of the crash, emergency responders found one person standing along the highway and gave them medical attention. The other occupant of the aircraft was pronounced dead.
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The aircraft involved in the crash was an Aero Vodochody L-39, according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration, which also indicated there were two people on board. The National Transportation Safety Board will be in charge of the investigation.
The jet departed from Alpine, Wyoming, shortly before 11:30 a.m. Mountain time July 21, briefly landed in Gillette, Wyoming, then arrived in Watertown, South Dakota, shortly after 3:30 p.m. Central time, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking website. It took off again shortly after 5 p.m., and crashed on its way to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, not far from the site of EAA AirVenture, a popular airshow that began July 21 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
This article originally appeared on St. Cloud Times: Plane crash kills one person in western Minnesota, reports say
