AFTON, Minn. — Two people are dead after a small plane crashed east of the Twin Cities on Saturday morning.
According to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, the crash occurred shortly before 9:45 a.m. near the 15000 block of Afton Hills Boulevard South. Several 911 calls were made by neighbors reporting “what sounded like a small explosion,” officials said.
When first responders arrived, they found a small aircraft that had crashed in the yard of a residence near an attached garage. The plane was fully engulfed in flames, officials said.
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After fire crews extinguished the blaze, they located the bodies of an 85-year-old White Bear Lake man and a 68-year-old Baytown Township man.
Family identifies 85-year-old Pat Moore from White Bear Lake as one of two men killed in a plane crash Saturday morning. Pat’s wife Vicky tells us the two men were headed to a museum in Granite Falls.
Lisa lives just a few homes away from where the crash happened. She did not feel comfortable going on camera but says she couldn’t believe her eyes when she looked outside her window.
“I actually saw a plane in the sky going straight down,” Lisa recalled.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the model of the plane is a Global GC1.
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