On October 9, 2020 I blogged about how Fighting wildfires from the air is dangerous, and described a SEAT crash in Idaho. Then on July 18, 2024 I blogged about another SEAT in second post titled Juliana Turchetti crashed and dies while fighting a Montana wildland fire.
There is an article by Kelly Anderson at Fire Aviation on July 26, 2024 titled SEAT crashes, pilot killed south of John Day on the Malheur (in Oregon). Yet another article by Barney Lerten at KTVZ on July 28, 2024 is titled Pilot of single-engine air tanker killed in Malheur National Forest crash identified as lifelong pilot, 74. James Bailey Maxwell had been a pilot for 54 years and logged 24,000 hours of flying time. He was flying an AirTractor 802A, which is powered by a 1,350 hp Pratt & Whitney PT-6A gas turbine engine. (That’s more horsepower than engines in early World War II fighter planes like the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk and the Hawker Hurricane).
The image was adapted from this one at Wikimedia Commons.
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