From the mountains to the coast, firefighters reported homes burning, even as the police and emergency service personnel clustered near the crash site.In Numeralla, where ash-faced firefighters gathered at the local fire station late on Thursday after a 12-hour shift, appreciation mixed with sadness and fatigue. “It might as well have been one of our own.”It was a tragic reminder that this unpredecented Australian fire season is far from over, and that the scale of what the country is facing has the power to draw in even Americans with years of experience who seek to contribute from above.The aircraft, a C-130 Hercules, was operated by Coulson Aviation, a family-owned Canadian company that helped battle last year’s California wildfires and has worked in Australia for more than a decade, leasing firefighting planes and helicopters, with crews included.The victims were identified by the company as Ian McBeth, 44, of Great Falls, Mont.
Both the pilots and officials at air traffic control did not follow set procedures, the country's aviation minister said.In a split second, Ken Bathurst went from aviation enthusiast to plane crash survivor.Among the smouldering homes, face masks, lockdowns and calls for political change, 2020 has produced momentous news stories that would – in any other climate – have been remembered for a generation.The F15C Eagle was on a routine mission from RAF Lakenheath when it crashed into the North Sea off the UK, the US Air Force has said.Andrew Ottrey, 17, and 74-year-old Ken Bathurst were flying in South Gippsland when the aircraft's engine began to fail while the teenager was at the controls.Two people have survived after a light plane crashed into a tree in East Victoria. Two people have died in a plane crash in South Australia's north Posted 6 Jul July 2019 Sat Saturday 6 Jul July 2019 at 11:50pm , updated 7 Jul July 2019 Sun Sunday 7 Jul July 2019 at 6:22am Share 2019: 2020: External links: The remains of China Airlines Flight 120 at Naha Airport, Japan, 2007. 2019 Pakistan Army military plane crash; PenAir Flight 3296; 2019 Philippines Beechcraft King Air crash; S. 2019 Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crash; 2019 São Paulo Bell 206B accident; Skydive Umeå Gippsland GA8 Airvan crash; T. 2019 Taplejung helicopter crash; U. Ukraine Air Alliance Flight 4050; Ural Airlines Flight 178 ; This page was last edited on 8 May 2020, at 12:46 (UTC). To improve your experience A special evacuation flight bringing people home to India who had been trapped abroad because of the coronavirus skidded off a runway and split in two, killing at least 16 passengers and injuring 123 more.A light plane heading for Australia was allegedly laden with so much cocaine it was too heavy to take off, police say.A nine-month-old, the pilot and a woman were killed when a light aircraft smashed into a house in Utah's Salt Lake City.Twenty years ago today, a Concorde jet crashed into Michèle Fricheteau's hotel, killing 100 passengers, nine crew, and four of her staff. A preliminary report into a fatal plane crash near the Lockhart River in Far North Queensland has found there was no evidence of any mechanical or structural defects within the aircraft.Central Queensland today paused to remember one of Australia's worst civil aviation disasters, 60 years after it happened.Detectives helped prove that fragments found in the plane's wreckage and in victims' bodies came from a Russian-made missile.The 28-year-old's social media accounts have been closed after some suggested the young model would be punished in the afterlife for the choices she made.The flight data recorder from the Pakistani airliner that crashed into a residential neighbourhood of Karachi has been found, as the death toll rose to 97.