Originally Posted by
FullOppositeRudder
And we managed to drown a Skycrane in Victoria in January 2019
...and more than those cases if you include smaller fixed wing and rotary. ATSB conducted a safety analysis of aerial firefighting a while ago and the report is accessible from their website:
A safety analysis of aerial firefighting occurrences in Australia, July 2000 to March 2020 (atsb.gov.au)