Thursday, May 10, 2012

Grumman Acft Eng Cor-schweizer G-164B, N6993Q: Pilot uninjured in crop duster crash - Linn County, Oregon

A 68-year-old pilot was not hurt after a crop duster made a hard landing near Millersburg in Linn County Thursday morning.

Sgt. Art Sprague, spokesperson for the Linn County Sheriff’s Office, reports that sometime before 8:15 a.m., a single-engine Grumman Ag Cat was landing on a private strip at 33627 Hoefer Drive when it went off the runway and landed on its nose in a blackberry patch.

Kent Wooldridge of Albany, the only person aboard the plane, was not injured. He told responders that the left brake failed as he approached the end of the runway, causing the plane to pull to the right.

The propeller and wings of the plane sustained damage, the sheriff’s office said.

The Federal Aviation Administration will be conducting an investigation.


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