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Firefighting Cropduster/Tanker Crashes

Sole occupant pilot dies in modified crop duster

The Associated Press is reporting that a modified single-engine crop dusting aircraft being used as a water tanker to fight a forest fire crashed, killing the pilot.

The aircraft was involved in the firefighting ops near St. George (UT) when the ir crashed about 15 miles north of the city at approximately 6 PM local time, according to Bureau of Land Management spokesperson Wendell Peacock.

The pilot was identified as 58-year-old Wayne Turner, a contract pilot for New Frontier Aviation who had been a pilot for more than 40 years and had more than 21,000 hours of flight time under his belt.

Peacock said that the 3,660-acre Dammeron Complex fire, which was apparently two fires caused by lightning which had merged together, had been declared contained shortly before the time of the crash.

Photograph courtesy of The Spectrum, St. George.

FMI: www.thespectrum.com/news/stories/20040618/localnews/671114.html

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