At about 2.30pm on Saturday, mineworkers from the Eloise Copper Mine reported the incident involving a Turbo Commander Aircraft in McKinlay, about 104km southeast of Cloncurry. The three-person crew ...

New details have emerged about the hours leading up to the plane crash that claimed the lives of three US airmen who had been tasked with helping local fire crews battle blazes in the state’s south ...

It was flown in to help fight the Peregian bushfire but few people know the story of how this firefighting plane came to be in Australia. What many people wouldn't know was the reason this ...

The C130-Hercules large air tanker also flew to the Section 44 Cooma fire without a “bird dog” — a smaller observational plane — with firefighter sources claiming the bird dog pilot had made the ...