A pilot is dead following a plane crash Sunday morning just a few miles from a small airport in southwestern Minnesota.
The Cottonwood County Sheriff’s Office was notified at 7:05 a.m. that the Windom Municipal Airport lost radio contact with a plane scheduled to depart that morning.
About 40 minutes later, officials located the crash site about 2½ miles north of the airport, according to Heather Janssen with the Sheriff’s Office. The pilot was deceased; no one else was on board.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating the crash of the Piper PA-32R. Spokesman Eric Weiss said a preliminary report would be available in two weeks.
Windom is 65 miles southwest of Mankato.
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