Vanguard Insurance Co. v. Plains Helicopter, Inc.

REYNOLDS, Justice.

The sole question presented in this declaratory judgment action is whether a helicopter, insured except “while . . . used for crop dusting or spraying operations,” was covered when, after the actual spraying had been finished and the helicopter had landed, it crashed after take-off as a landing was attempted on the back of the nurse truck, used as an integral part of the spraying operations, to refuel for the return flight. The trial court determined and declared, and correctly so in our view, that the helicopter was not being used for crop dusting or spraying operations at…