Spray Plane Crash

Cary S. Wolinsky

National Geographic

Spraying program to combat the spruce bud worm was interrupted in the spring of 1979 after a plane was ditched in Maine's Allagash waterway. An electrical fire forced the pilot to dump a hundred gallons of concentrated poison into the waters of this wilderness sanctuary. After the governor's refusal to allow a new road to be built to rescue the plane.

Cary S. Wolinsky, "Spray Plane Crash," in POYi Archive, Item #10354, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/10354 (accessed November 23, 2024).