{"id":209752,"date":"2026-04-25T21:11:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209752\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:11:42","slug":"fatal-plane-crash-near-crystal-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209752\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal plane crash near Crystal Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City of Brooklyn Park said occupants of the airplane that went down shortly after departing Crystal Airport did not survive. <\/p>\n

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. \u2014 Authorities say occupants on board have lost their lives following a plane crash near Crystal Airport on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a press conference, Brooklyn Park Police said they responded to a report of a small airplane crash at 11:51 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to officials, first responders located an aircraft that had crashed and caught fire in Southbrook Park, near 62nd Avenue North and Florida Avenue North.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Federal Aviation Administration told KARE 11 that an aircraft went down in a residential area shortly after departing Crystal Airport.<\/p>\n

The FAA told KARE 11 that there were two people on board. The City of Brooklyn Park confirmed that the occupants did not survive. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Officials said firefighters were able to extinguish the fire. According to authorities, no individuals on the ground were injured, and no property was damaged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a statement, the National Transportation Safety Board said it is investigating a crash involving a Beech F33A airplane, and it expects investigators to arrive on the scene later Saturday or Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Just before noon, a traffic camera near I-94 and County Road 81 showed heavy smoke coming from an area near the airport.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This is a developing story and will be updated as we learn more.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Brooklyn Park said occupants of the airplane that went down shortly after departing Crystal Airport…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-209752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}