US EditionCrashed Jet Reported Issue After Leaving Watertown
Flight instructor Mark Ryan Ruff ejected safely after engine failure forced a crash near Granite Falls, Minnesota, killing passenger David Colin Dacus, the National Transportation Safety Board reported.
- On July 21, 2025, a small jet went down near Granite Falls, Minnesota, resulting in the death of one passenger and serious injuries to the flight instructor.
- The accident occurred after an engine malfunction during the third segment of a journey from Gillette, Wyoming, heading toward Wittman Regional Airport near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where an aviation event was being held.
- The flight instructor made multiple attempts to restart the engine and attempted emergency landings first at Marshall Airport and then at Granite Falls Airport, but ultimately was unable to reach the runway.
- He told the passenger to eject three times though the passenger did not eject, while the instructor safely ejected and suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
- The jet struck a power line with its tail and collided with a dirt embankment 821 feet before reaching the runway, resulting in the detachment of the fuselage from the wing and a spill of fuel at the location.
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Determining that he would not be able to reach the runway at the Granite Falls Airport for an emergency landing, the flight instructor piloting the small jet that crashed a month ago south of Granite Falls told his fellow occupant three times to eject before he did so himself, according to a preliminary report recently filed by the National Transportation Safety Board. The occupant, David Colin Dacus, 46, of San Francisco, was pronounced dead at…
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