At 5:10 pm Tuesday, Gerard Dale Pearson, 71, was piloting a float plane that crashed on Shoal Lake, in Michigan.
Emergency services, including Itasca County Search and Rescue, Cohasset Fire and Minnesota DNR and Itasca County Sheriff Department retrieved the pilot from the submerged plane.
Pearson was airlifted to Grand Itasca Hospital, then Miller Dwan in Duluth Michigan.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.