TWO HARBORS, Minn. — Federal aviation investigators have reconstructed what happened in the crash of a small plane that killed two people near the pilot’s private grass airstrip. But they haven’t yet explained what caused the crash. A preliminary report says the[ lane overshot the runway at 100 feet at 58 mph, then climbed and accelerated to 64 mph, and then banked left at 54 mph and crashed into thick trees 450 yards from the grass strip. This was the morning of June 21 about 18 miles northeast of Duluth. Killed Bryan Handyside, 60, and Matthew Joseph, 64, both employees at Cirrus Aircraft in Duluth. They had taken off from Duluth.
Wreckage in deep woods. The crash occurred June 21 on a short flight north from Duluth. The plane was a vintage Aeronca 7CCM built in1946.
