This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A police roadblock on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, near Peak View, New South Wales, Australia, near the site of a crash involving a C-130 Hercules carrying a load of fire retardant. Three firefighters from the United States were killed on Thursday when the plane went down in the mountains south of Canberra, the Australian capital.Firefighters in Australia held a minute’s silence on Friday for three U.S.
“We simply don’t know the circumstances pertaining to the accident at this stage,” Fitzsimmons said. “Appropriate, formal investigations and inquiries are underway.” The company had grounded its other large air tankers immediately after the crash on Thursday but said they would be returning to work “in the very near future”.
A U.S. National Transportation Safety Board official said the agency plans to have some involvement and will likely send an investigator or two to Australia. Kennedy said there many possible causes for Thursday’s crash, but noted that a well-known risk in the C-130 fleet was metal fatigue-induced wing failure.
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