This local flying business has been spraying this fields mainly for weeds in the wheat fields for years. He sprayed my brother's wheat fields 40 years ago. He has been spraying these crop fields since we have lived here the past 5 years. About a year ago he had a pilot hired to applicate sprays on the fields for him. He was spraying a canola field just up from town and down over the hill from us. It was early in the morning not long after the sun came up. We figure the sun was in his eyes, and he didn't see the power line, so he flew right into it, clipping it and losing control of his airplane dropping it, crashed against the fence at the bottom of the hillside. They covered the airplane pending an FAA investigation into the crash. The guy was airlifted to a hospital in Spokane, Washington, USA. He surived, and I think he is still alive, although I haven't heard anything about him since, but I would have heard if he would have died. Anyway because of that crash the guy owning the applicator airplane went out of business, probably because of the more expensive insurance, and then having to replace his crashed airplane. Now the farmer neighbor to us has a special spray applicator tractor which is built like a straddle buggie used to move units of lumber. It has huge wheels, and goes pretty fast for a tractor. They have a spray tank on it and a wide aparatus that can be hinged in for transport, that applies the sprays. I was very happy that the guy survived that crash.

