Matthew Zocher was piloting from Mankato's airport en route to his family's home in Wisconsin for Thanksgiving when his aircraft went down in a wooded area. The 24-year-old aviation student at Mankato State University was the only passenger.

Authorities say multiple people are dead after a small plane went down about 4 miles north of Glencoe. There were no survivors.

Two people from Cloquet were seriously injured in a small plane crash in Ontario, Canada, early Wednesday. Ontario Provincial Police authorities said a Cessna 180 was trying to take off from a camp on Trout Lake when it crashed, injuring the 78-year-old man piloting the plane and a 62-year-old woman passenger. A second passenger, a 44-year-old man, also from Cloquet, was not hurt.

A mechanical problem forced the pilot of a 95-passenger Delta Air Lines plane on its way from Minneapolis to Detroit to shut down an engine and land in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Monday afternoon, MLive reports. There were no reports of injury.

The four first-year students were returning to school after spending a long weekend with their families in the Twin Cities area. A university official says the loss of the 18 and 19-year-old women has the NDSU campus in "shock and disbelief."

The Federal Aviation Administration confirms a single-engine aircraft crashed in Upper Whitefish Lake near Brainerd early Sunday morning. The Pioneer Press reports the pilot was killed and a passenger was injured. An FAA spokesman said the small plane is submerged about 75 yards offshore, but had no future details as of noon Sunday.