{"id":224508,"date":"2026-05-08T13:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224508\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:12:40","slug":"ntsb-shares-report-on-brooklyn-park-plane-crash-that-killed-nd-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224508\/","title":{"rendered":"NTSB shares report on Brooklyn Park plane crash that killed ND lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Liz Conmy and a pilot were on the plane at the time of the crash. Both died. <\/p>\n<p>BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. \u2014 The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a report Thursday with details on the plane crash near Brooklyn Park that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/local\/authorities-confirm-plane-crash-near-crystal-airport\/89-79965f15-cd98-4d7f-95a5-b5a94ce4b32e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">killed a North Dakota lawmaker<\/a> and the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>The small plane went down on April 25 near the Crystal Airport. Both occupants \u2014 Representative Liz Conmy and pilot Joseph Cass \u2014 died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB reported Cass flew from Park Rapids to the Crystal Airport on April 24 and was returning to Park Rapids at the time of the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the airplane left the Crystal Airport, the pilot said, &#8220;abort, abort, 32X,&#8221; before air traffic control cleared him to land on any runway. The plane is shown on surveillance footage turning left, descending behind the trees and crashing. The plane&#8217;s engine could also be heard making loud noises throughout the video.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash then started a fire, which was put out by firefighters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NTSB investigators are examining the Beechcraft airplane to determine the reason for the crash. They did find that fuel lines were damaged and oil was leaking from the engine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB is keeping the plane for further investigation, according to the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Representative Liz Conmy and a pilot were on the plane at the time of the crash. Both died.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-224508","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\/224508","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=224508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}