A single-engine plane crashed into a residential home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on Saturday afternoon, igniting a massive fire.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the aircraft was a SOCATA TBM7, which had departed from Des Moines International Airport in Iowa and was en route to Anoka County-Blaine Airport near Minneapolis. At approximately 12:20 p.m., the plane went down in a Brooklyn Park neighborhood.
Brooklyn Park Fire Chief Shawn Conway confirmed that no one inside the home was killed, but tragically, there were no survivors among those onboard the aircraft.
Video footage from the scene shows the home engulfed in flames, with emergency responders working to contain the blaze. Chief Conway stated that by the time firefighters arrived, the home was already a “fully involved structure fire.”
According to FlightAware, the single-prop plane flew from Naples, Florida, and landed in Des Moines at around 10:30 a.m. The plane took off 45 minutes later and crashed six minutes before its scheduled landing time.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the “preliminary information we have is the plane impacted a residence and experienced a post-crash fire.”
“I was watching TV on the couch, and the whole house shook like I’d never seen,” neighbor Joan Johnson told WCCO-TV. “We ran and looked out the window and saw the billowing black smoke.”
Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis with a population of 82,000, lies about 11 miles north of the city. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said his administration was monitoring the situation closely and expressed gratitude to first responders for their swift action.
