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Plane Crashes Near Mountain Grove

By Natalie Swallow

Story Created: May 5, 2008

Story Updated: May 5, 2008

A crop dusting plane crashed at about 7:30 Monday morning one mile east of Mountain Grove just over the Texas County line on Business 60.

68-year-old Lloyd Darter was spraying liquid fertilizer in his 1965 Piper Pawnee 235.

When making a bank turn, the plane clipped a power line, causing it to spin into trees and finally crash in a field 50 feet from a house.

A 18-year-old Logan Schuster heard the crash from the house and came out to help pull Darter out of the plane.

A lifeflight took Darter to St. John's Hospital in Springfield in serious condition but with non-life threatening injuries.

There was 100 pounds of liquid fertilizer still on board when the plane crashed, none of which was spilled.

The Highway Patrol notified state emergency managers, the Department of Natural Resources and the FAA of the crash.

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