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Jack Gramenz

Deaths of US aircrew heroes probed in bushfire inquest

Three US firefighters died when their air tanker crashed in southern NSW in January 2020. (PR HANDOUT) (AAP)

A NSW inquest into the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires is resuming to examine the deaths of three US aviators who died when their large air-tanker crashed.

Captain Ian McBeth, 44, first officer Paul Clyde Hudson, 42, and flight engineer Rick DeMorgan Jr, 43, were killed when their Lockheed EC-130Q water-bombing tanker crashed northeast of Cooma in southern NSW on January 23, 2020.

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