US Bank vice chair and chief administration officer Terry Dolan is believed to have been a passenger on the small plane that crashed into a house in a northern suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday, the bank announced on Sunday, according to NBC News.

A bank spokesperson clarified that the small plane was registered to Dolan, NBC continued.

Brooklyn Park Fire Chief Shawn Conway stated at a Saturday news conference that while it is unclear how many people were onboard the plane, there were no survivors.

The plane was a single-engine SOCATA TBM7, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. This plane model is able to carry six people.

The plane crashed into a home, causing a fire, Conway confirmed. The home was completely destroyed, CBS News added, with a neighboring home experiencing “minor damage to the siding and yard,” CBS added, quoting the fire department.

“A SOCATA TBM7 crashed in a residential area in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, around 12:20 p.m. local time on Saturday, March 29. The plane departed from Des Moines International Airport in Iowa and was headed to Anoka County-Blaine Airport in Minneapolis. We do not yet know how many people were on board,” the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated on Saturday.

“The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will investigate. The NTSB will be in charge of the investigation and will provide any updates,” the FAA confirmed.

“The investigation is just getting started. We don’t have a lot of answers right now,” NTSB aviation accident investigator Tim Sorensen commented, according to CNN.

Investigators will examine “all other aspects that may have affected the operation, such as the weather, such as the background experience of the pilot, the status of the aircraft, maintenance of the aircraft,” Sorensen added.

Two people live inside the home, but only one was inside at the time, and they were able to escape to safety, Brooklyn Park authorities announced.

Political and local responses

Minnesota Governor and recent Democratic Party vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz posted on social media that he was closely monitoring the situation and was “grateful to the first responders answering the call.”

My team is in touch with local officials on the scene in Brooklyn Park and we are monitoring the situation closely.Grateful to the first responders answering the call. https://t.co/D4mGfPIaD6

— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) March 29, 2025

Brooklyn Park Mayor Hollies Winston thanked Walz for his support, CNN reported.

A neighbor, quoted by USA Today, told local CBS news affiliate WCCO-TV that her “whole house shook like I’d never seen” before they “ran and looked out the window and saw the billowing smoke.”

Another neighbor told ABC-affiliate KSTP that she “can’t imagine this happening to anybody.”

At least one person was killed after a small plane flying from Iowa to Minnesota in the United States crashed into a house in a Minneapolis suburb Saturday. The house caught fire after the aircraft crashed into it and was destroyed, but its residents were not hurt, Brooklyn Park spokesperson Risikat Adesaogun said.

Investigators said it was not yet known how many people were aboard the single-engine SOCATA TBM7 aircraft, but reports said there were no survivors among the passengers.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the aircraft departed from the Des Moines International Airport with a destination of the Anoka County-Blaine Airport, located in another Minneapolis suburb. It crashed in Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis. The city of 82,000 people lies about 11 miles to the north of the incident.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.

Videos of the crash on social media show the aircraft free-falling from the sky before crashing into the residential area.

Minnesota Plane Crash: A tragic plane crash shook Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, when a single-engine SOCATA TBM7 slammed into a home at 10792 Kyle Avenue just after noon on Saturday. The aircraft, en route from Des Moines International Airport to Anoka County-Blaine Airport, erupted… pic.twitter.com/w4GitAqIVt

— John Cremeans (@JohnCremeansX) March 30, 2025

Other footage shows that the house the plane crashed into was engulfed by flames as members of the local fire department attempted to put it out.

NEW: Plane crashes into a home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota causing the home to burst into flames.

According to local officials, no one was injured inside the home. They do not know the cause of the crash at this time.

Governor Tim Walz says his “team is in touch with… pic.twitter.com/qYaJhP1Asa

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 29, 2025

According to Brooklyn Park Fire Chief Shawn Conway, the blaze had developed into a “fully involved structure fire” by the time the fire department arrived at the scene.

Meanwhile, Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz said his team was “in touch with local officials on the scene in Brooklyn Park and we are monitoring the situation closely”.

“Grateful to the first responders answering the call,” he added.

The crash follows a number of such tragedies and near misses since US President Donald Trump and his cabinet started making cuts to federal agencies. Hundreds of employees responsible for aiding air safety were fired under the Trump administration’s cost-cutting measures, according to the Associated Press.