Pilots survive after converted airliner crashes on firefighting mission

Both pilots received only minor injuries even though the plane was engulfed in flames and smoke upon impact.

The wreckage of the Boeing 737-3 lies on a road in remote countryside in Western Australia (DFES via AP)

Two pilots walked away with minor injuries after a Boeing 737 jet converted for firefighting crashed in Australia, officials said on Tuesday.

The twin-engine tanker owned by Canadian-based Coulson Aviation crashed in the Fitzgerald River National Park in southern Western Australia state while fighting wildfires on Monday.