LAKIN, Kan.—A Colorado pilot is hospitalized in Wichita after the crop-dusting plane he was flying crashed in southwestern Kansas.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says the 1999 fixed-wing plane went down around 9:30 a.m. Monday about two miles east of the Kearny (KER’-nee) County town of Lakin.
The pilot is identified as 58-year-old David Burr, of Montrose, Colo. He was taken to Kearny County Hospital and later to Wichita’s Via Christi-St. Francis Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition Monday afternoon.
The patrol says the aircraft’s right wing clipped a support line on a 305-foot cell tower. The plane hit the ground nose-first near U.S. 50 and flipped over.
The Hutchinson News reports ( ) the crop-duster was registered to Tri Rotor Spray and Chemical, in the southwestern Kansas town of Ulysses.
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Information from: The Hutchinson News,
