Hard-to-see tower tied to Antioch crop-duster plane crash

24 January 2012, 9:53 am

Federal investigators say the pilot of a crop-duster plane probably didn't see the 198-foot weather tower before a deadly crash in Northern California last year. Fifty-eight-year-old Stephen Allen died when his S-2R Thrush Commander crashed into the tower on Webb Tract Island northeast of the Antioch Bridge on Jan. 10, 2011. The plane was applying seed at the time. The San Francisco Chronicle ...... Read More »

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