A US aerial firefighting company has named the three Americans killed in an air tanker crash on Thursday in south-east New South Wales.
In a post to Facebook, Coulson Aviation named Captain Ian McBeth, First Officer Paul Hudson and flight engineer Rick DeMorgan Jr as the aerial firefighting crew
who died in the crash of the C-130 large ait ranker west of Cooma.The Rural Fire Service was leasing aircraft from the North American company to help fight bushfires.
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