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A 35-year-old crop duster, Ray Cottingham, tragically lost his life in a plane crash on Monday evening.
The yellow single-engine plane crashed around 6:40 p.m. Monday, and there were no direct eyewitnesses.
The plane crashed in a bean field between Benton County Roads 700 and 800 South and 100 and 200 East, Rosenberger said.
The crash site is southwest of Oxford and southeast of Boswell.
Rescuers found the plane upside down in the field and on fire, Benton County Sheriff John Cox said in a news release published Tuesday morning.
The fire was quickly extinguished, and the pilot was found to be dead, Cox said.
The plane is owned and operated by Bi-State Air.
Bi-State is a family owned aerial application company based in Veedersburg, according to its Facebook page.
The bean field where the plane crashed was not the field that the pilot was spraying.
A no-fly zone was created over the crash site, and investigators from the National Transportation and Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are expected to be on site Tuesday to investigate, Cox said.
The crash remains under investigation.
