JUST like an aerial fight scene, the airplane moved deftly, keeping the Bangka Strait fishermen enthralled. Initially, the plane nosedived as if it was going to land on the water, but then soared up to the skies in just 14 seconds.

That was the Beriev Be-200 plane that was scooping up seawater to extinguish forest fires in South Sumatra. The government hired two water bomb airplanes from Russia since early November, after a constant failure in ext