Three US firefighters died in a plane crash earlier this week in Australia's remote bushland while battling a fierce wildfire.
A spokeswoman for Australia's New South Wales state police confirmed the recovery to Reuters in an e-mail.Coulson Aviation, the private Canadian firm that employed the trio, named them as U.S. military veterans Captain Ian H. McBeth, 44, of Great Falls, Montana, First Officer Paul Clyde Hudson, 42, of Buckeye, Arizona, and Flight Engineer Rick DeMorgan Jr., 43, of Navarre, Florida.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau Chief Commissioner Greg Hood said that the investigators retrieved the aircraft's cockpit voice recorder in the tail section of the aircraft. The Americans were a part of a multi-national contingency that has been helping Australia to combat the devastating bushfires that have in three months scorched a land area about one-third the size of Germany, razing thousands of homes.
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