The preliminary released by the ATSB details the sequence of events leading to a Boeing 737 large air tanker’s impact with a ridgeline in Western Australia’s Fitzgerald River National Park while conducting an aerial fire-fighting task on 6 February 2023.

The preliminary report outlines factual information collected in the on-going investigation’s early evidence collection phase, and details that the modified Coulson Aviation-operated 737 air tanker, callsign ‘Bomber 139’, with two pilots on board, had departed from Busselton Airport to assist fire control efforts near Hopetoun, about 600 km south-east of Perth.

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