Montana pilot killed in firefighting tanker crash
By The Associated Press - 08/22/09
MISSOULA (AP) — A Missoula-area pilot died in an air tanker crash near Reno, Nev.
The pilot was identified as Dave Jamsa by an official with Minuteman Aerial Applications, which owned the single-engine Air Tractor 802 that crashed Thursday.
“He was trying to make his drop when he crashed,” Minuteman director of operations Forest Gue told the Missoulian newspaper in a story published Friday. “We’re doing everything we can to find out why it happened.”
The plane went down about 125 miles northeast of Reno while crews battled the Hoyt fire, which has burned about 2,000 acres, or 3.1 square miles, and was about 5 percent contained.
Jamsa had worked at Minuteman for four years and is survived by his wife and four children.
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Montana pilot killed in firefighting tanker crash
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