On this date in Minnesota History: June 11

June 11, 1999 -“Conservation Officer [Grant Scott] Coyour and a civilian observer were killed in an aircraft accident while conducting an aerial moose telemetry survey over the Red Lake Wildlife Management Area near Baudette, Minnesota.

The 1977 Piper Cub the he was piloting was found by a Canadian government plane, which responded to his aircraft's emergency transponder beacon. Two Canadian paramedics parachuted down to the marshy area, where the plane was partially submerged, and found the bodies of both Officer Coyour and the observer.”

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Conservation Officer Grant Scott Coyour

http://www.odmp.org/officer/15266-conservation-officer-grant-scott-coyour