LAFAYETTE, Ind. ― Robert Ray Cottingham took off in his crop duster from an Attica airport about 5:40 p.m. July 22. He had about 50 minutes left to live, according to a preliminary report from the ...

LAPLACE, La. — The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office reports that a crop duster plane crashed in LaPlace field. The sheriff’s office says it received a call at approximately 9:12 a.m. on ...

A Kansas man has died after his crop-dusting helicopter crashed in northeast Iowa. Chickasaw County Sheriff Ryan Shawver says that at about 1:30 pm Monday afternoon, they received a 911 call of a ...

Aerial application of pesticides, or crop dusting, is a crucial part of modern agriculture, increasing crop yields and reducing losses by billions of dollars annually. The job of an ag pilot is ...

A crop-dusting helicopter crashed in a sugarcane field in the Laurel Valley area east of Thibodaux on Wednesday morning, killing the pilot. The crash occurred around 6:30 a.m. in Lafourche Parish when ...

80-year-old Layton man dies in hospital weeks after Idaho crash An 80-year-old man from Layton died in a hospital several weeks after he was hit by a vehicle in Idaho.Idaho State Police responded to ...

MT PLEASANT, Mich. — Michigan State Police (MSP) troopers in Mt. Pleasant responded to a plane crash Thursday morning. Police say the plane was a crop duster that crashed in a hay field. The pilot was ...

A crop duster landed upside down in a cane field south of Lockport. According to Lockport Volunteer Fire Department’s Fire Chief Armand Autin, a crop duster spraying insecticides on cane fields “soft ...

Top Gun undoubtedly had some of the best air-to-air combat scenes ever put on film, but watching crop duster pilot Butch Fisher skim this field and then barely pull up in time to miss a towering tree ...

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