Thankfully the pilot is okay!
A contract helicopter for the NSW Rural Fire Service has crashed into a dam this afternoon.NSW Ambulance issued a statement that said about 4pm the water bombing aircraft, tasked to the Clyde Mountain fire, ditched into the Ben Boyd Reservoir in the Ben Boyd National Park at Edrom, in the Bega Valley Shire.
"The aircraft remains submerged however the pilot was able to free himself from the aircraft and is safely onshore," they said.
Paramedics are responding.
The chopper crashed with 800L of fuel and 20L of oil.
It's believed to have been fighting the 156,000 hectare out-of-control Border Fire near Eden on the far NSW South Coast.