Three people travelling to map bushfires die in plane crash
Its been revealed the three people killed a plane crash in north west Queensland yesterday were members of a Victorian aerial-firefighting crew.
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00:00 Regional Victorian Aircraft Company, Ag Air, has confirmed that three of its staff members
00:09 died in a plane crash which occurred in northwest Queensland yesterday.
00:15 Now emergency services were called to the scene of the crash site about 70 kilometres
00:22 away from Cloncurry in northwest Queensland at about 2.30pm yesterday.
00:29 They said that there was extremely difficult terrain around where the crash site was which
00:36 proved a challenge for them to get to.
00:40 Now that flight was conducting fire surveillance and it was part of efforts across Queensland
00:46 to fight fires that have been burning across the state for several weeks.
00:51 They were actually flying from Toowoomba to Mount Isa to conduct that fire surveillance.
00:58 And police are continuing to investigate what has happened at the crime scene today as well
01:05 as the Australian Transport Safety Bureau who've travelled from Brisbane to the crime
01:12 scene and are expected to file a report on what has happened in about six to eight weeks.
01:20 Queensland Fire and Emergency Services as well as Queensland Police's Forensic Crash
01:24 Unit will also assist with those investigations and the Chief Executive of that aircraft company
01:33 Ag Air has also said that the company will provide any assistance necessary in the investigation.
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