Ellsworth pilot in stable condition after plane crash

A 51 year-old Ellsworth man, Brad Fitchett, is listed in stable condition in the surgical intensive care unit Friday morning at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita after the crop dusting airplane he was flying crashed Thursday afternoon in a field south of Bushton. See the Thursday, Sept. 1, edition of the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter for more details.