U.S. Bank vice chair Terry Dolan was confirmed Tuesday as the person killed when his single-engine plane crashed into a suburban Minneapolis home over the weekend, a medical examiner ruled.
Terrance Robert Dolan, 63, died of blunt-force injuries, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office said. The avid pilot was flying a single-engine Socata TBM7 from Naples, Fla., to his home in Edina, Minn., when he went down. Dolan had stopped in Des Moines, Iowa, then taken off from Des Moines International Airport headed for Anoka County-Blaine Airport.
He crashed around 12:20 p.m. Saturday in Brooklyn Park, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The house the plane hit was immediately engulfed in flames, though the sole occupant escaped uninjured. The home was destroyed, displacing a family, authorities told The Minnesota Star Tribune.
Dolan was remembered for his ascent from humble roots — growing up in a tight-knit Irish family on a farm near Lucan, Minn. — to the top ranks of the Minneapolis-based bank, the Star Tribune reported. He was known as much for his community work as he was for his roles as the bank’s vice chair and chief administrative officer, the news outlet reported. He had been with the bank since 1998.
U.S. Bank had said Monday it believed Dolan was the one flying the plane, which was registered to him.
With News Wire Services
