Thursday, a small plane crashed while trying to land at a regional airport in Minnesota. Eight people were killed, including casino and construction executives. According to the Associated Press, the Raytheon Hawker 800 crashed around 9:45 a.m. Thursday, about 60 miles south of the Twin Cities. Seven people died at the scene and one died at the hospital.

Among the victims were the two pilots and six passengers who were all casino and construction executives heading to a business meeting.

John Lovell, the supervisor of the investigation, said that the National Transportation and Safety Board was examining the weather condition, the plane’s structure and other factors which may have caused the plane to crash. The crews recovered a cockpit voice recorder and a flight management system which were sent to the NTSB laboratory in Washington. Federal investigators are looking for other clues in order to find out why the plane crashed.

Sheriff Gary Ringhofer said that the plane was flying from Atlantic City, N.J., to Owatonna, a town of 25,000 and it crashed near Degner Regional Airport. The Dakota County coroner came at the scene to try and indentify the victims.

Doug Neville, spokesman of the Department of Public Safety, said that two more people had to be on board but they didn’t get on the flight. According to the Associated Press, there were five victims identified: Karen Sandland, 44, Clark Keefer of Bethlehem, Pa. and Dan D'Ambrosio of Hellertown, Pa., who were the pilots, Marc Rosenberg and Alan Barnett, who were executives of APG International, a company that is specialized in glass facades.

The National Weather Service reported that an hour before the crash there was 72 mph wind in Owatonna. The plane had to land at 9:42 a.m.