To the southwest of Sydney, a firefighting plane crashed while he was engaged in the fight against the fires that are ravaging Australia in September. The three members of the crew are dead, he has made known to the commissioner of the fire services of New South Wales, Shane Fitzsimmons, said that “unfortunately there were no survivors to the crash”. “The aircraft hit violently the ground, and when you do not know the reasons for the accident,” he added.
The control center had lost contact with the aircraft, an impressive C-130 Hercules, while working in the region of the Snowy Monaro in the afternoon. Following the accident, said Fitzsimmons, the canadian company that owns the aircraft crashed, the Coulson Aviation, has decided to suspend all of its flights in the australian States of New South Wales and Victoria to expose the aircraft to a review.
