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Don't want to stick my nose where it doesn't belong, but did they every verify the cause of the crash?

Preliminary report - "severe fog conditions"

I haven't heard anything other than he had just fininshed spraying a field and was on his way back for another load when it happened.

Yea I heard that fog set in after he was up. Bad deal. A lot of those crop dusters don't have directional instruments to let you know which way is up. He probably lost orientation which is easy to do no matter how much experience you have.

hillhunter wrote:Yea I heard that fog set in after he was up. Bad deal. A lot of those crop dusters don't have directional instruments to let you know which way is up. He probably lost orientation which is easy to do no matter how much experience you have.

I have never seen an ag plane that did not come fully equipped with all vfr instrumentation. Every plane has a directional gyro, compass, artificial horizon, turn indicator, etc.

That said, it is still easy to become disoriented.

It was obviously foggy but i dont think they have totally ruled the cause. He had a ton of time in an ag plane, super experienced.

Thanks for all the kind words. This has been really hard. Still haven't got any information yet. I'm back in the plane though

Prayers with you man. It must be tuff.

MS River Rat wrote:Thanks for all the kind words. This has been really hard. Still haven't got any information yet. I'm back in the plane though

MS River Rat, Your bro-in-law, Collier and I go way back. We have been been keeping y'all in our thoughts and prayers. My deepest sympothies.

Prayers sent from me and my friend and his family witch is in the crop dusting business