Firefighting plane

Firefighting plane crashes near Reno airport; three dead

September 3, 2008

RENO, Nev. – An air tanker hoping to drop retardant on a wildfire in the Sierra Nevada crashed on takeoff near Reno, killing all three crew members on board. The twin-engine P2V air tanker owned by Neptune Aviation of Missoula, Montana, had been fighting a wildfire earlier Monday at had forced evacuations over the weekend [...]

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