Man dies in crop duster crash
Subject: Man dies in crop duster crash
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:14:59 -0500
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of
California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
cc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
Man dies in crop duster crash The Associated Press
EXTENSION, La. (AP) -- Federal aviation investigators were en route to this small Franklin Parish farming community to try to determine what caused a crop duster to dive into a cotton field, killing the pilot.
Bruce Bailey Jr. of Wisner was flying over a field Thursday afternoon about eight miles west of Winnsboro when his plane went down, Franklin Parish Sheriff Steve Pylant said.
Pylant said the plane appears to have crashed nose-first, but he was unsure how high in the air it was prior to the crash.
Bailey, whose age was not available, was pronounced dead at
the scene. His body was sent to
Bailey had just finished spraying a field and was on his way to land the plane at By-Mason Flying Services, about 12 miles east of Winnsboro, when the crash occurred, Pylant said.
The sheriff said investigators could not determine the cause of the crash.
"Crop dusting is just a dangerous occupation," Pylant said. "With the way they operate, it's just dangerous."
Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration were expected to take over the investigation upon arrival in Franklin Parish on Friday.
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