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Firefighting plane crashes in Australia, killing 3 Americans

by Associated Press
| January 23, 2020 12:05 AM

SYDNEY (AP) — Three American firefighting airplane crew members were killed Thursday when the C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker they were in crashed while battling wildfires in southeastern Australia, officials said.

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