Crop duster crash kills pilot
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National Transportation Safety Board officials are investigating a crop duster crash in a rice field Monday, May 21, 2012 near Highway 70 and Nicolaus Avenue in East Nicolaus. The pilot, Nathaniel Allen Brown, 50, of Sacramento, was killed in the 6:30 a.m. crash while dropping zinc fertilizer, a Sutter County sheriff's spokesman said.
A crop duster flies over the scene of a crop duster crash in a rice field Monday, May 21, 2012 near Highway 70 and Nicolaus Avenue in East Nicolaus.
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