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NTSB report: No clear cause of Sauk Rapids plane crash
An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board couldn't determine why a small plane crashed into a Sauk Rapids house June 20, killing the pilot and a German foreign exchange student who was a passenger.

The eight-page report provides the known details of the flight by St. Cloud commercial pilot Scott A. Olson, 60, and passenger Alexander Voigt, a 16-year-old Technical High School student.

Both were killed when the plane crashed into a home at 731 Garden Place. Olson was flying Voigt over the St. Cloud area so the foreign exchange student, who was staying with St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis, could take some pictures before the end of his stay in the United States.

A man who was in the house at 731 Garden Place escaped by jumping from a second-floor window and was unharmed.

Olson's daughter was friends with Voigt, and Olson had agreed to give Voigt an aerial tour of the St. Cloud area a week before Voigt was to fly home to Germany.

The NTSB report discusses the possibility that the cockpit's canopy opened during flight, causing Olson's plane to "wobble back and forth" before beginning a nose dive that ended with the crash.