U-2 Spy Plane That Crashed, Killing 1, Was On Training Mission

SUTTER COUNTY (CBS 13) – One pilot is dead and another injured after a U-2 Air Force plane crashed near West Sutter Road. It happened just after 9 a.m. Tuesday on the mountainside of the Sutter Buttes.
“I was just passing through, I had finished a job,” said pilot Pete Spyres, a crop-dusting pilot who was flying his helicopter nearby. “As I was coming toward the hill, I just saw a little fire, some smoke. I saw the wings of a plane, I just saw a U-2 – I just knew ex