FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) - Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration were to arrive Monday to begin investigating a small plane crash that killed four people at Faribault Municipal Airport.
The remains of the victims of Sunday's 3 p.m. crash were taken to the Ramsey County medical examiner's office in St. Paul. Their names had not been released.
The Federal Aviation Administration had said earlier that four people were on board the plane and at least two had died in the crash. Faribault police said later that there were no survivors.
The Cirrus SR22 plane was registered to Mayo Aviation in Aberdeen, S.D. Mayo Aviation has no connection to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, a clinic spokesman said.
The four-seat plane, which was equipped with a parachute that deploys from the back of the aircraft, burst into flames and scattered debris across the air field when it crashed just off the runway around 3 p.m. It wasn't clear if the parachute had been used.
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"There's very little left," Faribault Police Chief Dan Collins said. Collins said there were wind gusts above 20 mph when the plane went down, but the cause of the crash hadn't been determined.
FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro said officials have not been able to find a flight plan, so they were not sure where the plane came from or where it was headed.
The FAA office in Minneapolis did not immediately return a message left Monday seeking further information. Faribault police said no new information was available.
Cirrus Design Corp., the plane's manufacturer, is based in Duluth. A Cirrus spokesman declined comment until after the FAA investigates.
Since 2002, the National Transportation Safety Board reports that the SR22 has been involved in 17 accidents resulting in 35 deaths.
