Plane Crash Near Minn. Airport Kills 8

Small jet downed; stormy weather suspected culprit
Posted Jul 31, 2008 2:02 PM CDT
Plane Crash Near Minn. Airport Kills 8
This map shows Owatonna county, where a plane crashed today, killing at least 7.   (Wikimedia Commons)

A small plane crashed while trying to land at a southern Minnesota airport this morning, killing eight people, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. The Raytheon Hawker was arriving from Atlantic City, bearing customers of a local glass manufacturing company, just as stormy weather blew through the region. (More plane crash stories.)

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