The plane is partially submerged in the St. Louis River and responders are looking for any survivors, St. Louis County Sheriff Gordon Ramsay said in a tweet.
Radar tracks put Michael Bratlie, an experienced military and commercial pilot, just past Two Harbors, Minnesota, in his two-engine plane. There the flight path ended, drawing exhaustive searches of Lake Superior and the thick woods and rugged terrain on shore.
The SkyPak could be used for many applications, from search and rescue to flying a worker up to change light bulbs or perform other maintenance on tall structures.
This year marks the 95th anniversary of Lindbergh's solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York City to Paris in 1927. The famed aviator dubbed “Lucky Lindy” grew up on a Little Falls farm before becoming a worldwide celebrity.
On Tuesday, Aug. 17, the nonprofit program Dream Flights took two local World War II veterans to the skies over Bemidji. This year, the program is working to take more than 1,000 WWII veterans on flights during August and September.
People gather for the open house to celebrate the new General Aviation Terminal Saturday, June 29, at the Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport. The terminal addition provides a new front entrance and arrival/departure facility for the general aviation...
Keyahna Kurilla is on her school tennis team, pilots a plane part of the way from a Canadian air base to her family's cabin in that country, and revels in her role as a local dairy ambassador.
Mark Persons of Brainerd was raised in a broadcasting family and says he knew he would be a radio broadcast engineer when he grew up, but a stint in the Army during the Vietnam War came first.
