Pilot of a firefighting aircraft helping to battle a Colorado wildfire was making a final pass over the blaze when the plane crashed, killing him, sheriff’s office says.
The man, Marc Thor Olson, an Army and Air Force veteran, died after the Air Tractor AT-802A went down about 6:40 p.m., CO Fire AviationHe was conducting drops on the Kruger Rock Fire, which was burning in steep terrain too dangerous for firefighters, near the town of Estes Park, in the mountains west of Loveland, when the plane crashed, the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.
"The pilot told ground resources it was turbulent over the fire, conditions were not ideal to make a drop, and that he was going to make one more pass and then return to Loveland," the sheriff’s office said in a statement."Moments later, at approximately 6:37 p.m., ground resources heard the plane crash."The Kruger Rock Fire broke out Tuesday morning southeast of Estes Park, a town of around 6,000 people about 25 miles west of Loveland.
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