Minnesota Senator Killed In Plane Crash 2025. Senator paul wellstone, one of the foremost liberals in congress, was killed in a plane crash in minnesota today along with his wife, daughter and five others. Cruz, a texas republican, chairs the senate.

Investigators today laid the blame for the plane crash that killed senator paul wellstone and seven others in october 2002 squarely in the laps of the pilots. His estate, and those of other victims of the crash, have reached a $25 million.