Agriculture Helicopter Crashes Into Power Lines; Pilot Recovering

Pilot caught eating on camera before fatal helicopter crash

Footage from the R66’s cockpit camera showed that the autopilot was engaged while the pilot was “occupied with non-flying related tasks … specifically, mobile phone use and the consumption of food and beverages”, the ATSB said.

Agriculture Helicopter Crashes Into Power Lines; Pilot Recovering

By Jennifer Wimmer A single-passenger crop-dusting helicopter clipped live high voltage power lines while spraying pesticides onto crops between 10:45 a.m.-11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 25th, causing it to go down in a nearby corn field in the south of Hancock County. The ag pilot, Brandon Lanham, managed to escape the wreckage, thankfully. Local first responders on the scene reported that Lanham was taken to Owensboro Health Regional Hospital b…