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 ...

Pyka, which has focused on developing and supplying autonomous aircraft for crop dusting, is entering the defense market with ...

SAUK CITY — The only part of Jim Kazmierczak’s crop- dusting business that fits one of the many stereotypes linked to his misunderstood profession is the cramped, one-seater Piper airplane with its ...

Crews responded to a crash involving an experimental aircraft in southeast Missouri on Sunday afternoon, October 12.

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 ...

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 crop duster crashed in LaPlace Saturday morning, according to the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office. The plane crashed at 9:12 a.m. in a field at East Airline Highway and Oswald Avenue, ...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. — A crop dusting plane crashed in the Brewer Bend Campground on Sept. 26. The crash happened around 1:20 p.m., and luckily, everyone walked away with no injuries. 2 News talked with ...

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 ...

Howard Joshlin, 45, of Dallas, Texas, was killed after his crop duster struck a cable used to support a 1,080 foot tower west of Senath. The tower collapsed and the plane burst into flames upon impact ...