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.
Fighter aircraft assigned to the U.S. Northern Command took down the object, an American official said. The official said the territorial waters where the object went down are frozen.
Zach Jackson’s aircraft is based on the Piper J-3 Cub, a popular light aircraft manufactured from 1938 to 1947. Jackson chose to build his own rather than restore one
Addy Randt, 18, of Glenwood, Minnesota, hopes to join her mom, Captain Michal Randt of Delta Airlines, in the cockpit as a mother-daughter aviation duo.
The fixed-wing, single-engine plane left Duluth around 11:10 p.m. Saturday and reached an altitude of 2,300 feet before it crashed, according to Flightaware.com.
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.
Little Falls’ favorite son Charles A. Lindbergh was remarkable for his bravery and for flying solo, nonstop, 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.
