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 ...

OXFORD, Ind. ― A 35-year-old man crop dusting in southeastern Benton County died Monday evening after his plane crashed, Benton County Coroner Matt Rosenberger said. The yellow single-engine plane ...

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 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, ...

An Air National Guard base in Oklahoma will host the first formal training unit for the service's armed recon crop duster plane used for special operations, an announcement that comes as watchdogs ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A new facility in Waco is has opened and it will turn crop duster airplanes into advanced military aircrafts under the Sky Raider II program. Aerospace and Defense Contractor ...

HIGGINSON — Authorities say a pilot wasn’t hurt in a crop-dusting plane accident in central Arkansas. The White County sheriff’s office said it received a call about 1:45 p.m. Thursday that an ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- The FBI has questioned more than 3,000 pilots and aircraft owners, most of them in the past year, amid persistent concerns that terrorists might use crop-dusting planes to mount a ...