Three private transport plane crashes during firefighting killed 3 people Australian forest fire 17:50 on January 23
In the southeastern part of Australia, where forest fires continue, a civilian transport aircraft crashing from the sky crashed, killing three Americans on board.
High temperatures and strong winds have caused forest fires to continue in New South Wales, a southeastern state of Australia. On May 23, 85 new fires broke out and the airport in Canberra was shut down.
According to state fire authorities, contact with the C130 transport aircraft, which had been extinguishing fire from the sky with plenty of water since the afternoon of the 23rd, was later confirmed to have crashed.
This means that three Americans were on board the transport and all died.
Local authorities are investigating the exact cause of the crash, saying that the crashed aircraft belonged to a privately owned American company and had been contracted with the Australian government to extinguish a new forest fire.
In Australia, forest fires have continued in various places, mainly in the southeast, and 28 people have died since last September.
Since July last year, more than 170,000 square kilometers of forest and farmland, nearly half of Japan's area, have been lost.
The Japanese government has also dispatched two Air Self Defense Force C130 transport aircraft as an international emergency relief team to support the extinguishing of forest fires, which are becoming increasingly serious.