PARAGOULD, Ark. (AP) A crop-dusting pilot was killed Tuesday when his small plane crashed in an open field in northeastern Arkansas, officials said.
The pilot was killed when his plane crashed late Tuesday afternoon in an open field about 10 miles west of Paragould, or 130 miles northeast of Little Rock, Greene County Sheriff Steve Franks told KAIT-TV in Jonesboro.
Franks said the pilot was spraying the field when he tried to climb, and the single-engine Air Tractor AT502 appeared to stall and crash. Franks released no identity of the pilot.
The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are investigating.
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