Crop Duster Pilot Unhurt After Failed Takeoff Near Jamestown

STUTSMAN CO., N.D. (KVRR) – The pilot of a crop duster escapes injury after a failed takeoff west of Jamestown.

The North Dakota Highway Patrol says the 29-year-old pilot from Louisiana was taking off from a private airstrip west of Jamestown around 9 a.m.

The pilot failed to gain enough speed to create enough lift to takeoff and ran into a barbed wire fence before heading down a ravine into a pasture.

He was not hurt.

The crash is under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration.