{"id":212288,"date":"2026-04-28T05:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212288\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:14:20","slug":"retired-rochester-doctor-reportedly-among-victims-in-deadly-brooklyn-park-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212288\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Rochester doctor reportedly among victims in deadly Brooklyn Park plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/local\/authorities-confirm-plane-crash-near-crystal-airport\/89-79965f15-cd98-4d7f-95a5-b5a94ce4b32e\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/local\/authorities-confirm-plane-crash-near-crystal-airport\/89-79965f15-cd98-4d7f-95a5-b5a94ce4b32e\">A plane crash north of Minneapolis<\/a> reportedly has ties to the Rochester area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Hennepin County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office confirmed Dr. Joseph Cass, a retired doctor who worked at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, died on Saturday in Brooklyn Park. A close friend of Cass told KTTC Cass is believed to be the pilot during the flight. However, local authorities have not confirmed that at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NBC-affiliate KARE 11 reported the plane crashed at 11:51 a.m. in Southbrook Park, near 62nd Avenue. The plane crashed north of Crystal Airport. The North Dakota Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party confirmed state representative Liz Conmy is one of the two people who died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brooklyn Park Police Department told KTTC the National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation. In a statement to KTTC, NTSB said its on-scene investigation is complete and the plane has been moved to another location for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A preliminary report is expected to be released within 30 days of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">KTTC will update this story as new information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Find stories like this and more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kttc.com\/page\/kttc-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTTC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) \u2013 A plane crash north of Minneapolis reportedly has ties to the Rochester area. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,5796,83868,83867,83865,32648,83869,83115,83870,9,24,63,16400,83866,83872,83871],"class_list":["post-212288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-park","tag-brooklyn-park-crash","tag-brooklyn-park-mn","tag-brooklyn-park-plane-crash","tag-brooklyn-park-police","tag-city-of-brooklyn-park","tag-crystal-airport","tag-liz-conmy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-plane-crash","tag-plane-crash-in-brooklyn-park-mn","tag-plane-crash-mn","tag-rep-liz-conmy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212288","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=212288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}