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Firefighting plane crashes in Australia, killing 3 Americans

by Associated Press
| January 22, 2020 10:35 PM

SYDNEY (AP) — Three Americans died Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in the Snowy Monaro region of Australia's southern New South Wales state, officials said.

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