A C-130 Hercules aircraft working as a firefighting tanker above bushfires in Australia's south east is believed to have crashed.
Authorities have lost contact with the tanker as it worked on the Adaminaby complex fire south of the nation's capital, Canberra.
Arthur Stevens has more
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