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Two die in Utah as firefighting plane crashes

Associated Press

  June 05, 2012

A firefighting aircraft crashed into rugged terrain near the Utah-Nevada border as it dropped retardant on a 5,000-acre wildfire, killing the two Idaho men on board. The air tanker went down Sunday afternoon in the Hamblin Valley area of western Utah, Bureau of Land Management officials said. A helicopter crew saw the crash and told ground crews that “it didn’t look good,’’ Iron County sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Jody Edwards said.

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