{"id":94323,"date":"2020-01-23T10:49:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T18:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=94323"},"modified":"2020-01-23T10:49:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T18:49:05","slug":"coulson-aviation-on-loss-of-their-plane-that-took-three-lives-fighting-fires-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=94323","title":{"rendered":"Coulson Aviation on Loss of Their Plane That Took Three Lives Fighting Fires in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Port Alberni, BC&#8230;While working in the Snowy Monaro Area in southern NSW, Australia contact was lost with one of our large airtankers, a Lockheed C-130 registration N134CG.  The aircraft had departed Richmond, NSW with a load of retardant and was on a firebombing mission. The accident is reported to be extensive and we are deeply saddened to confirm there were 3 fatalities. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BrittsOfficeWall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BrittsOfficeWall.jpg 500w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BrittsOfficeWall-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>File Photo of One of Their C-130s<\/p>\n<p>The accident response team has been activated as well as local emergency services, Coulson Aviation will be sending a team to the site to assist in emergency operations. <\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the three crew members onboard. <\/p>\n<p>Sincerely <\/p>\n<p>The Coulson Family<\/p>\n<p>About their C-130s<br \/>\nThe Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built  by Lockheed Martin. Its ability to use unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings make it very effective in aerial firefighting. The C-130 has been our leading attacker in firefighting.  The C-130H Hercules with a Coulson RADS-XXL 4,000 US Gallon roll-on roll-off tanking system, is quite a force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Alberni, BC&#8230;While working in the Snowy Monaro Area in southern NSW, Australia contact was lost with one of our large airtankers, a Lockheed C-130 registration N134CG. The aircraft had departed Richmond, NSW with a load of retardant and was on a firebombing mission. The accident is reported to be extensive and we are deeply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-traffic-fire","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BrittsOfficeWall.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}