Crop-dusting plane crashes in Manitoba's Interlake region, pilot injured

The wing of a crop-dusting plane clipped a tree, sending thesmall craft crashing to the ground in Manitoba's Interlake region on the weekend, RCMP say.

The 33-year-old pilot sufferedminor injuries and was taken to hospital,police said in a news release on Tuesday. He was the only person in the aircraft.

Theplane was spraying a field south of the intersection of Highway 68 and Highway 233 just west of Arborg around1:10 p.m. when the crash happened.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has been notified.

No further information has been provided by RCMP.

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