(CNN) Australian authorities have recovered the bodies of three American firefighters who were killed in a plane crash while helping battle wildfires in the country, New South Wales Police said in a statement. Investigators on Saturday also retrieved the plane's cockpit voice recorder and are analyzing data to determine what caused the crash, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said. The firefighters were killed when their C-130 plane collided with terrain near the town of Cooma, Australia, on Thursday, the bureau said. The water-bombing tanker had been chartered by the NSW Rural Fire Service, state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said in a news conference last week. ATSB transport safety investigators today safely recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the C-130 large air tanker which collided with terrain near Cooma on Thursday.

Source: CNN January 26, 2020 09:33 UTC