Kansas Pilot Escapes Injury in Spray Plane Crash

BEATRICE – A Kansas pilot escaped injury when his agriculture spraying aircraft crashed in a field just north of the Hiawatha, Kansas airport.

Kansas Highway Patrol officials say 24-year-old Colton Callaway of Cummings, Kansas was piloting a 1997 Air Tractor AT-502-B that had been taking off northbound from the airport.

The plane failed to complete the take-off and crashed in a field, coming to rest sitting upright about a half-mile north of Hiawatha Municipal Airport. 

Callaway was not injured in the crash, which happened in Brown County, Kansas Monday, at about 3:25 p.m.