NTSB Reports on Agricultural Flight Safety
New report includes ag-flying safety video.
Agricultural pilots face low-level hazards alien to most airmen.
Agricultural pilots face low-level hazards alien to most airmen.

The National Transportation Safety Board on May 13 released the findings of its Special Investigation Report on the safety of agricultural aircraft operations, which can involve flying as low as 10 feet above the ground. That kind of flying presents risks from ground-based obstacles with scant room for error. The NTSB research looked at 78 accidents that occurred during the 2013 aerial flying season and found that agricultural flying ranks seventh in hours flown but third in total annual accidents where collisions with obstacles are a prevailing concern.