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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say two small planes crashed within hours of one another in western Wisconsin and southwestern Minnesota, killing all seven people who were onboard the aircraft.
The Polk County (Wisconsin) sheriff's office says a single-engine Beechcraft plane carrying four people crashed Monday evening in a field near Amery, Wisconsin, about 50 miles northeast of Minneapolis. Firefighters extinguished the blaze and found the victims' bodies inside.
Several hours later in Minnesota, sheriff's officials say a plane carrying three people crashed in a cornfield near Pipestone. Witness Travis Jasper, of nearby Sioux Falls, South Dakota, tells KSFY-TV that he heard the plane sputter and then heard it crash. Everyone onboard died.
Authorities haven't released the names of the victims or said where the planes had taken off from or were headed.
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