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A small plane crashed into a house in Germantown, Minnesota, killing three people on board. Two people who were in the house survived.
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Three people are dead after a small Cessna plane crashed into a home in Minnesota on Saturday, October 1.
It was just before midnight when the plane fell, breaking through the second floor of a Germantown home before falling to the ground, city officials said in a release. The Cessna 172 finally came to rest in the backyard.
According to officials, three people in their 30s were on board, and none of them survived.
The control tower at Duluth International Airport saw the plane disappear from radar about 1 to 1.5 miles south of the airport and contacted Germantown police.
When officers arrived at the scene in the 5100 block of Arrowhead Road, they found parts scattered around the yard around the wreckage and a huge gash on the small brick home, the Duluth News Tribune reported.
But the man and woman inside were not hurt.
Jason Hoffman and his wife were asleep when a sound like an explosion woke them up, he told MPRNews.
“I was able to grab a flashlight next to the bed and the first thing I saw was an airplane wheel sitting at the end of our bed,” Hoffman said. “Then we looked out and noticed that the whole back half of our house was gone.”
Officials did not release the names of those aboard the plane, but said two were men from Burnsville and one woman was from St. Paul.
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA are investigating the crash, officials said.
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