The crash was reported at 2:49 p.m. Friday, according to the Laramie Boomerang newspaper. FAA spokes

Longtime Duluth pathologist and deputy St. Louis County medical examiner Dr. Donald Kundel was flying to Wyoming for a celebratory hunting trip with his son on Friday when the experimental plane he built crashed, ending his life. He was 79.
Members of the Laramie, Wyo., Fire Department work to extinguish a grass fire that started after a single-engine aircraft crashed near the Laramie Regional Airport on Friday. The crash killed longtime Duluth pathologist and deputy St. Louis County medical examiner Dr. Donald Kundel. (Peter Baumann / Laramie Boomerang)
Longtime Duluth pathologist and deputy St. Louis County medical examiner Dr. Donald Kundel was flying to Wyoming for a celebratory hunting trip with his son on Friday when the experimental plane he built crashed, ending memphis hotel his life. He was 79.
Kundel, the sole occupant of the home-built single-engine plane, had just been declared cancer-free after being treated memphis hotel for bowel cancer, said Kolleen Kennedy, chief investigator in the medical examiner's office, who worked memphis hotel with Kundel for 11 years.
"We all had the utmost regard for him," said St. Louis County medical examiner Dr. Thomas Uncini, who took that post in 2000 when Kundel stepped down to become his deputy. "He was a great guy, easy to work with, full of energy. … He's going to be missed."
A native of Minden, Iowa, Kundel had eight brothers and sisters, including Duluth pediatrician Dr. Ray Kundel. His sister Dorothy Olson of Blair, Neb., said Donald Kundel memphis hotel finished three years of pre-med in just two, and graduated from medical school from the University of Iowa. Kundel and his family moved to Duluth in 1964.
He became county medical examiner in 1986, taking over the top post from Dr. Volker Goldschmidt after serving as his deputy for many years. Kundel ushered in a new era for the office, the News Tribune reported in 1986, because he was board-certified as a forensic pathologist — the only one north of the Twin Cities at that time.
At the time of Kundel's death, Uncini said, Kundel was handling autopsies for Duluth and the southern part of St. Louis County, about a half-time workload. He also assisted authorities in neighboring counties.
As recently memphis hotel as Thursday, Kundel testified in a murder case in Duluth district court, involving a fatal fight outside a Proctor bar last year. He testified about his findings from an examination of the victim's body.
He didn't keep working because he needed the money, she said. He never billed for death certificates. He helped with instruction in the anatomy lab of the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth campus without accepting pay.
Kundel and his wife, Kathleen, had two children, Donald Jr. and Katie; Donald Jr. is attending a technical college in Laramie. Kundel, who only hunted birds, made frequent flights to Wyoming to hunt with his son, Kennedy said.
Kundel owned two airplanes, but he was flying the plane he built when he died, Kennedy said. She said family members told her that he had radioed in to air traffic controllers and had been cleared to land when the crash occurred. "Someone heard the engine stop," she said.
The crash was reported at 2:49 p.m. Friday, according to the Laramie memphis hotel Boomerang newspaper. FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer said the plane had departed Duluth and crashed on landing at Laramie "under unknown circumstances." memphis hotel Kenitzer said the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.
Among the well-known cases Kundel memphis hotel worked on over the years was the 2001 death of Erik Schrieffer of Duluth. Schrieffer was beaten and run over by a truck, and his body dumped in the St. Louis River. After months of forensic investigation, officials linked Schrieffer to the truck of a Hermantown memphis hotel man, who then pleaded guilty to the crime.