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MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says a pilot smoked marijuana within two hours before he crashed in west-central Minnesota nearly two years ago, killing himself and his brother.

CAIRO (AP) — An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning off the Greek island of Crete, Egyptian and Greek officials said.

RUSH CITY, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say an ultralight airplane has crashed in eastern Minnesota, killing the pilot.

MOSCOW (AP) — Officials say both flight recorders have now been recovered at the crash site in southern Russia where a Dubai airliner went down while trying to land in strong wind, killing all 62 people aboard.

AKRON, Ohio (AP) —  The business jet that crashed into an apartment building in Akron, Ohio Tuesday had made a stop in Minnesota as part of a multi-state trip.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) -- A noise was heard in the last second of the cockpit voice recording from the Russian plane that crashed last week in Egypt's Sinai, killing all 224 people onboard, the head of the Egyptian investigation team said Saturday.

LONDON (AP) — Police say the death toll in the crash of a vintage jet fighter in southeastern England will probably rise as emergency workers probe wreckage on the freeway where the plane went down.

PIPESTONE, Minn. (AP) — A family friend says two teenagers from Mexico who were killed, along with the pilot, in the crash of a small airplane in southwestern Minnesota were visiting relatives and wanted to take a plane ride before returning home.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A sheriff says two bodies have been recovered from wreckage of a small plane that crashed in northern Washington state.

SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France (AP) — Authorities at the site of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps say they've finished collecting human remains.

PINE RIVER, Minn. (AP) — Two people have died in the crash of a small plane south of the Pine River airport in north-central Minnesota.

SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France (AP) — The first half of Germanwings Flight 9525 was chilling in its normalcy. It took off from Barcelona en route to Duesseldorf, climbing up over the Mediterranean and turning over France. The last communication was a routine request to continue on its route.

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says a helicopter has managed to land near where a passenger plane carrying 150 people crashed in the Alps, and has found there were no survivors.

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board has agreed to consider reopening investigation into what caused an Iowa plane crash that killed musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and pilot Roger Peterson.