The flight instructor piloting a jet that crashed July 21 in western Minnesota told the pilot-in-training, who was seated in the back seat, to eject three times before doing so himself, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board.

That pilot-in-training, David Colin Dacus, 49, of San Francisco, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which was near Granite Falls Municipal Airport, according to the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff's Office . The flight instructor, Mark Ryan Ruff, 43, of Dallas, was seriously injured but survived.

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