{"id":316393,"date":"2020-01-24T12:34:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T07:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=316393"},"modified":"2020-01-24T12:55:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T07:25:18","slug":"firefighting-plane-crashes-in-australia-killing-3-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/firefighting-plane-crashes-in-australia-killing-3-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighting plane crashes in Australia, killing 3 Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three American crew members died Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in southeastern Australia, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed the crash deaths in the state&#8217;s Snowy Monaro region as Australia attempts to deal with an unprecedented fire season that has left a large swath of destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Coulson Aviation in the US state of Oregon said in a statement that one of its Lockheed large air tankers was lost after it left Richmond in New South Wales with retardant for a firebombing mission. It said the accident was \u201cextensive&#8221; but had few other details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I have from the field reports are that the plane came down, it&#8217;s crashed and there was a large fireball associated with that crash,\u201d said Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three American crew members died Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in southeastern Australia, officials said. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed the crash deaths in the state&#8217;s Snowy Monaro region as Australia attempts to deal with an unprecedented fire season that has left a large swath of destruction. Coulson Aviation in the US state of Oregon said in a statement that one of its Lockheed large air tankers was lost after it left Richmond in New South Wales with retardant for a firebombing mission. It said the accident was \u201cextensive&#8221; but had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}