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 ...

WEBBERS FALLS, Okla. -- Paul Gould is a pilot in a career that could be flying into the sunset. His dad was a crop-duster; he didn't want the same for his son. But Paul loved the work too much. Still ...

UNION COUNTY, NC (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) – A pilot was killed after a crop-dusting helicopter became entangled in power lines Sunday, according to authorities. Officials with the Union County Sheriff’s ...

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 ...

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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 ...

ENID — The pilot of a crop dusting airplane who died early Tuesday in a crash in a wheat field just outside of the Enid city limits has been identified by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Rodney Sherry, ...

ARCO, Idaho (AP) — Two crop dusting airplanes have collided near an airport in southern Idaho, causing them to crash to the ground. The Butte County Sheriff’s Office says one pilot was killed and the ...

CIRCLE CITY, Mo. -- A small helicopter crashed in a Stoddard County cotton field Wednesday morning, killing the pilot after his craft came too close to a power line. Joe Criddle, 41, of Houston, Miss.

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 ...

MONANGO, N.D. - A pilot from LaMoure, N.D., is in critical condition at a Fargo hospital after his crop duster crashed Tuesday in Dickey County. David Lux, 46, suffered a head injury and was ...

ARCO (AP) — Two crop dusting airplanes collided near an airport in southern Idaho on Thursday and crashed to the ground, killing one of the pilots and leaving the other with life-threatening injuries, ...