LYON, Aug 20: A fire-fighting aircraft crashed on Saturday as it was tackling a blaze in southeastern France, killing the two crew members on board, French officials said. The accident was the latest of several this year involving aircraft battling forest fires in France.
The Grumman Tracker aircraft went down “on the edge of the fire” near Valgorge in the Ardeche region, where 15 hectares of forest were burning Saturday morning, officials said, as witnesses spoke of apparent engine trouble.—AFP
