INDIANA NEWS
07/24/2008
Tippecanoe County authorities say a crop-dusting helicopter crashed into a cornfield as the pilot was spraying insecticide.
The pilot was able to walk away from the Thursday afternoon crash near the town of Buck Creek, a few miles east of Lafayette. The sheriff's department says pilot John Wahl of Pendleton, Ore., had dispersed most of the insecticide before the helicopter lost power.
Nearby resident Rita Darnell says Wahl walked out of the field and asked to use her home's garden hose to wash chemicals from his eyes.
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