ZAMORA, Calif. (AP)—A fatal midair collision between two crop-dusters in Northern California’s Yolo County left one pilot dead.
Yolo County sheriff’s Sgt. Charles Hoyt says the second pilot involved in the collision July 23 about 3 miles east of Zamora was not injured but was taken to a nearby hospital as a precaution.
He tells the Sacramento Bee one of the planes crashed in a rice field on private land and the second landed safely near farmland thick with rows of corn and sunflowers.
Hoyt says officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board have taken over the investigation.
The name of the pilot who died has not been released, pending notification of family.