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Crop dusting helicopter crashes in Carroll County – No injuries

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August 2nd, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Updated) ARCADIA, Iowa (via KTIV) – A crop dusting helicopter pilot walked away from a crash in Carroll County, Monday morning. According to the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, first responders were paged to a helicopter crash south of Arcadia, at about 9:30 a.m., Monday. The pilot told authorities he was spraying a corn field in a Bell 206 Jet Ranger helicopter when the engine suddenly quit. The helicopter ended up crashing near the intersection of 210th Street Avenue and Delta Avenue. The sheriff’s office says the pilot, 78-year-old Michael Milliron, was able to get himself out of the helicopter and walk to the highway. He was checked out by Carroll Rescue and transported to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the crash to determine the cause. The helicopter was totaled in the crash.

It was the second western Iowa crash of a crop dusting aircraft in less than three-days. At around 1:10-p.m. Saturday, a fixed-wing single-engine Air Tractor, Incorporated crop dusting airplane crashed onto a road and caught fire near Ute, in Monona County. The accident happened when the aircraft struck electrical lines. and crashed onto a road near 230th and Teak. The pilot died at the scene. The road the plane crashed onto, was re-opened to traffic Monday afternoon.

As of the latest information, no name had been released.