A little low on the fire bombing run apparently

Russian Be-200 fire-bomber damage to the aircraft after hitting trees…

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And some interesting images of multiple aircraft fighting a fire…man…it really just doesn’t look effective (esp. the BAe146…)…but I guess it is worth it.

https://www.facebook.com/SLOStringer/videos/950228418422929/

And this plane almost got a head embedded in his wing…geez…

That is one very dangerous flying job.

We lost a 172 in a similar manner. It was one of the early run 172s, too. One of those square-tail hawks. Had to be written off. Saaaad.

Man those BE-200 photos are crazy! Those trees really did some damage.

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A little more info on what happened.

http://fireaviation.com/2016/08/18/be-200es-strikes-tree-lands-safely/

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