(ABC 6 News) – A small Beechcraft Musketeer plane remains where it crashed at Oak Summit Golf Course Sunday night.

Golf course owner Mitchell DeCook said Monday that he was the person who called in the crash.

“I had just put the kids to bed and I sat on the couch and I looked out the window,” DeCook said. “And I saw this plane come by that was really low.”

As someone who lives close to the Rochester International Airport, seeing planes flying overhead is nothing new.

DeCook said this time was different.

“From being out here all the time, you’re used to seeing what’s normal and what’s not,” he said. “It was really low and uh, watched him go around and crash into the trees.”

After DeCook called 9-1-1, he rushed to the crash scene to help.

“The pilot was still in the plane. I kinda helped him get the door open and the ground was kind of soaked in fuel so we were trying to get out of there in case something lit on fire. Got him out of there and got him to the ambulance.”

The pilot was the only occupant of the plane – a small, single engine craft owned by a Lakeville flying club.

It had taken off just minutes before crash landing from RST.

In a recording of radio traffic between the pilot and air traffic control, the pilot could be heard calling for help.

This flight tracking map shows the exact path the plane took before crashing into the golf course.

The owners of the plane said the pilot had been checked and medically cleared.

The FAA and NTSB are heading up the investigation into what caused the crash.

Air traffic control audio of the crash from LiveATC.net can be heard below:

A preliminary report released Monday morning mentions engine issues, however, a full report from the NTSB likely won’t come for a least a year or more.

This incident is only the latest in a string of crashes and emergency landings coming in and out of RST.

In February, a plane heading toward Wisconsin had to make an unplanned landing in Rochester. Few details are available in that incident, as the airport wouldn’t share with ABC 6 why the plane made the landing.

In the summer of 2023, a private plane made an emergency landing at RST after its engine exploded mid-flight. The plane took off from Utah and was heading toward an air show in Wisconsin. The pilot and his passenger both walked away unharmed.

However, that was not the case in 2022, when a Lourdes graduate and his flight instructor were tragically killed after they took off from RST and crashed in Wisconsin. They were only 20- and 28-years-old.

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(ABC 6) – The Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that a small private plane crashed in the woods near the Oaks Summit Golf Course late Sunday night.

According to law enforcement, a witness called OSCO to report the plane crash at around 10:16 p.m.

The pilot only suffered minor injuries, and was able to walk away from the scene.

No other passengers were on board.

ABC 6 has confirmed the flight went down at near Oak Summit Golf Course, right next to the Rochester International Airport.

Police say the scene is still active, and wouldn’t allow ABC 6 on the property until they cleared the scene.

This is a developing story.