• Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?

    Go here:

    Edit Account Details and Profile

S-2T Air Tanker Crash

Flash

SEVAL/ECMO
None
Super Moderator
Contributor
A CAL FIRE S-2T tanker crashed in California, no word on the pilot. Thoughts and prayers.
 

Citation3

Well-Known Member
I just saw the report this morning. I certainly hope and pray our mutual CalFire friend is all snug and safe in his be this morning.
 

wink

War Hoover NFO.
None
Super Moderator
Contributor
Bummer. Flew a SMF-DFW leg over the area just before this happened. It looked like a small fire. Not much smoke at the time. We didn't even know they were working it.
 

BleedGreen

Well-Known Member
pilot
One of the 4 common denominators for fatalities in the wildland fire environment is "on relatively small fires or deceptively quiet areas of large fires." It's sad when this kind of tragedy happens on what seems like such a minor or small incident. Sadly, it happens in that setting more often than one would think.
 
Top