Three Americans killed battling Australian wildfires when their water tanker plane crashed in New South Wales.
4 min readAustralianThe Lockheed C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker went down in the Snowy Mountains' Monaro region, about 400 miles east of Melbourne, said officials with the New South Wales Rural Fire Service .
In this undated photo released from the Rural Fire Service, a C-130 Hercules plane called "Thor" drops water during a flight in Australia. Officials in Australia on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, searched for a water tanker plane feared to have crashed while fighting wildfires.The three crew members were believed to the only ones aboard the plane, according to officials. There were no survivors in the crash.
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