Article 4YA65 All three crew members dead in crash of air tanker fighting bushfires in Snowy Monaro region

All three crew members dead in crash of air tanker fighting bushfires in Snowy Monaro region

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Naaman Zhou
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NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian expresses condolences to families of the firefighters on board

Three American firefighters have died after a waterbombing air tanker crashed while fighting fires in New South Wales.

The NSW Rural Fire Service said in a statement that "contact had been lost with a Large Air Tanker which was working in the Snowy Monaro area" on Thursday afternoon.

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