When firefighters crashed the modified aircraft C-130 Hercules (initially Lockheed EC-130Q TACAMO) the american society of Coulson Aviation, reg. N134CG, v. no. 4904, which crashed in the area of the Snow mountains. the accident killed all 3 crew members - captain Ian McBeth, 1. officer Paul Hudson, and on-board technician Rick DeMorgan Jnr, and so, unfortunately, further increased the number of victims of the australian fires.
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