Here in the Saginaw Michigan area we lost two pilots in recent years,
same spraying company... Two summers ago the owner/operator hired a
young fella to fly one of his two turbine planes... The young fella
supposedly had several years of active spraying and was apparently
flying well for a number of weeks... One day he pulled up hard up at
the end of the row, whip stalled and stuffed it straight into the
ground...
The next summer the owner went under the wires on about the 30th pass,
for unknown reasons, hooked the wire cutter on the vertical stab on the
cable TV run, which has a stainless steel wire rope suspending it,
ripped the tail feathers off and stuffed it... He was another one who
was talking until he bled out internally...The widow has government
contracts and I'm told has bought more planes and hired pilots...

As much as I love airplanes and flying, I have never once had the urge
to try spraying...


denny