Pilot injured in Sunday crop-duster crash

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An aerial applicator pilot was taken to hospital after a crash in the RM of Bifrost-Riverton on Sunday.

According to an RCMP news release, Gimli police responded to the crash in the early afternoon of July 21. The crop dusting plane was spraying a field when its wing clipped a tree.

The pilot and lone occupant, a 33-year-old man from the area, sustained minor injuries and was taken to the hospital, police said.

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Geralyn graduated from Red River College's Creative Communications program in 2019 and launched directly into agricultural journalism with the Manitoba Co-operator. Her enterprising, colourful reporting has earned awards such as the Dick Beamish award for current affairs feature writing and a Canadian Online Publishing Award, and in 2023 she represented Canada in the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists' Alltech Young Leaders Program. Geralyn is a co-host of the Armchair Anabaptist podcast, cat lover, and thrift store connoisseur.