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 ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crop duster pilot is in serious condition following a Tuesday afternoon crash in rural Boone County. Multiple emergency agencies ...

OGLE COUNTY, Ill. — Officials have identified the pilot and sole occupant of a plane that crashed Tuesday morning in northern Illinois. The sheriff's office said 23-year-old Alexander Leamon of Lena ...

NASHVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot of a crop-dusting plane was killed in a crash in a rural field in south Georgia. Berrien County Sheriff Ray Paulk tells multiple news outlets that 31-year ...

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 ...

The preliminary statement does not say whether the Air Force pilots had time to avoid the crash. OKLAHOMA CITY -- The pilots of an Air Force training jet saw a crop duster moments before the two ...

ROBINSON, Texas (AP) - A pilot has escaped injury after his single-engine plane flipped while taking off near Waco. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers say crosswinds caused the aircraft's left ...

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 ...

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 ...