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 C-130 Coulson Firefighter Crashes in Austrailia
Three American firefighters have died after a C-130 water tanker aircraft crashed while battling a blaze in southern NSW on Thursday.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/n...IEpbzPzFsombX0
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This happened two weeks ago. Has it been on the news here at all? I haven't seen anything about it. I fear we are getting desensitized to Australia's battle.
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 Originally Posted by IdahoMtnSpyder
This happened two weeks ago. Has it been on the news here at all? I haven't seen anything about it. I fear we are getting desensitized to Australia's battle.
Don't know...... I was air crew on C-130s long ago in another life. I still keep up with what is going on with them. Got my info from a link that was on a C-130 Military Forum. I have not seen anything on the news about it.
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Best I can remember it made the news when it happened. 3 Americans were the flight crew, and I believe the description mentioned an accelerated stall. The model of airplane was grounded until investigation made sure this wasn't a common issue, haven't heard of the outcome. That's the best I can remember. God be with those families.
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On the 23rd of Jan, just after dropping a load of fire retardent, while banking out of the drop run, the 130 was filmed by ground firefighters up to the moment of impact. Very dense heavy ground smoke obscured the moments before impact but the planes disintegration was captured as it cleared low out of the smoke, there are Aussie news videos of the incident.
Prayers for the families and crew.
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Big salute to those souls lost, so sad.
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Originally Posted by IdahoMtnSpyder
This happened two weeks ago. Has it been on the news here at all? I haven't seen anything about it. I fear we are getting desensitized to Australia's battle.
I saw it on national news. I usually watch ABC. It was in their express portion of the news and did not get a lot of mention.
 
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Would have been around the time that a meer "Famous" American athlete (I despise the mention of his name) was killed in a helicopter crash, along with 8 others that got very little mention. Athletes and celebrities get all the press here in USS nowadays. Heroes get nothing.....our American media has hit an all time low in morals and standards.
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Mazo, how true how true....
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