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Nortonville Pilot Critically Injured

By Brian Hagen with Associated Press

07/11/2012

Photo courtesy of KGWN TV

(KNZA)--A Nortonville pilot, at work in Wyoming spraying for mosquitoes, suffers critical injuries when his plane crashed in a field west of Cheyenne Tuesday.

He's identified as 38-year-old Michael Childress.

Cheyenne's KGWN TV, in an interview with the Laramie County Sheriff's Department, reports that the crash happened around 7:20 in the morning.

Childress pulled himself out of the wreckage after the crash, and paramedics found him walking around the crash site.

He suffered burns to the upper half of his body and was in critical condition Wednesday at the Western States Burn Center in Greeley, Colorado.

When the Cessna 188, contracted by Laramie County, knocked down the power lines, around 400 customers were left without power for a time.

The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports that it's the second straight summer in which a spray plane has crashed in the county.

Last August, a plane spraying a potato field near Pine Bluffs crashed after clipping a power line.

The Associated Press, KGWN TV and the Wyoming Tribune Eagle contributed to this story.

KGWN http://www.kgwn.tv/story/18996388/plane-crash-injures-pilot-totals-plane

Wyoming Tribune Eagle http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2012/07/11/news/01top_07-11-12.txt

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