The wing of a crop-dusting plane clipped a tree, sending the small craft crashing to the ground in Manitoba’s Interlake region on the weekend, RCMP say.
Wing clipped tree during spraying operation, RCMP say
The wing of a crop-dusting plane clipped a tree, sending the small craft crashing to the ground in Manitoba’s Interlake region on the weekend, RCMP say.
The 33-year-old pilot suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital, police said in a news release on Tuesday. He was the only person in the aircraft.
The plane was spraying a field south of the intersection of Highway 68 and Highway 233 — just west of Arborg — around 1:10 p.m. when the crash happened.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has been notified.
No further information has been provided by RCMP.
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