Pilots walk away from Australia plane crash

(UPDATED) SYDNEY: Two pilots have made a "miraculous" escape after their Boeing 737 waterbombing plane crashed and burned while fighting a blaze in remote Western Australia.The plane left a long scar on the scrub- and tree-covered landscape when it came down while battling a bushfire in the Fitzgerald National Park about 420 kilometers (260 miles) southeast of West Australia's capital Perth.Aerial images taken shortly after the accident, which happened on Monday, showed thick black smoke spewing from the aircraft on the ground, with the rear of the fuselage consumed by the inferno.

The impact had left a long, sand-colored trail through the greenery behind the plane.Emergency services images captured a short time later showed that the tail section had separated from the rest of the aircraft, which lay in cinders.The two pilots were released from the hospital a day after the accident.