A plane has crashed in the United States triggering a fireball as a home went up in flames. Unverified footage posted on social media shows firefighters at the scene of the crash, with a building engulfed in flames.
The video was posted on X from an account called Republicans against Trump with the caption: “A plane crashes into a home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, engulfing it in flames. Officials say no one inside the house was injured”.
State governor Tim Walz confirmed the apparent tragedy, writing online: “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.”
Footage shows a huge fire, billowing black smoke and stunned onlookers as sirens can be heard wailing in the background as the emergency services rush to the scene.
Local media outlet Fox9 reported that the aircraft crashed near the junction of 109th Avenue North and Noble Parkway in Brooklyn Park, a suburb on the west bank of the Mississippi River, upstream from Minneapolis.
The Flightradar tracking program shows the aircraft was a SOCATA TBM-700, a single engine turboprop jet which can carry up to six people.
CBS reported that according to the US Federal Aviation Authority, the plane took off from Des Moines International Airport in Iowa and was heading to Anoka County-Blaine Airport in Minneapolis.
The same media outlet said a Delta flight bound for Minneapolis on Friday (March 28) had a near miss with an Air Force jet while leaving Reagan International Airport in Washington DC.
No injuries were reported on the commercial flight which was carrying 131 passengers, according to CBS.
That near-miss followed a mid-air collision on January 29 near the same airport involving a passenger plane and a US Army helicopter. Sixty-seven people were killed in the first fatal US passenger plane crash for 16 years.
In February, one person died after a business plane skidded off the runway while coming in to land at an airport in Scottsdale, Arizona, where it collided with another jet which was parked. At least four people were injured in that crash, according to the authorities.
Officials in the US are also investigating at least three fatal crashes, including the January 29 mid-air collision, a plane crash in Philadelphia which killed seven people and a plane crash in Alaska that killed 10.