Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial view of the July 22, 2024, crop duster accident site facing west with the field being sprayed in the background. The ...

Modern agricultural aviation is vital for crop yield and pest control, relying on highly skilled ag pilots who execute precise, low-altitude aerial applications over millions of acres. Today's crop ...

A pilot has died and more than 100 customers are without electricity after a plane crashed into electrical wires and burst into flames Tuesday. According to the Ogle County Sheriff’s Office, the ...

A crop-dusting helicopter crashed in a sugarcane field in the Laurel Valley area east of Thibodaux on Wednesday morning, killing the pilot. The crash occurred around 6:30 a.m. in Lafourche Parish when ...

A crop dusting plane that crashed Thursday near Brush was piloted by the owner of a fleet of the planes which has supported wildfire firefighting efforts in Colorado and across the western United ...

Rotor Technologies is working through regulatory approval of a remotely piloted helicopter based on Robinson Helicopter’s R44, with hopes of tapping into the aerial crop-dusting market. Unmanned ...

Guardian’s SC1 aerial-application eVTOL can cover 40 acres/hr. Credit: Guardian Massachusetts-based startup Guardian, which is developing an unmanned electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) crop ...

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 ...