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Cropduster Fatality on Rio Grande do Sul

What: Mostardas Aviacao Agrícola Embraer EMB-201 Ipanema while cropdusting
Where: Bacopari Brazil on the coast of Rio Grande do Sul
When: Jan 17, 2011
Who: 1 fatality
Why: A cropduster (PT-GHP) crashed in Bacopari Brazil Monday afternoon at 2:30 pm. The pilot was flying over a farm near the district of Solitude and spraying a rice crop at the time of the incident. V Serviço Regional de Investigação e Prevenção de Acidentes Aeronáuticos is investigating,

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