Helicopter Crash

September 27, 2005 | In Weather, Activism, Helicopters | 2 Comments

Last Friday, a tourist helicopter with 5 passengers and the pilot crashed into the ocean in bad weather, about a half-mile offshore of Haena, on the north shore. Three of the passengers died, while two others were rescued and the pilot swam ashore.

According to the newspaper, the wreckage was recovered from the ocean yesterday, and today some of the rescuers and the investigators released some more details of the accident. The front page photos don’t seem to be archived with the stories above, so I scanned them for the record:

Image source: The Garden Island print edition, September 26, 2005

Image source: The Garden Island print edition, September 27, 2005

I’m wondering: has anybody heard of this outside of Hawaii? Please let me know in a comment if you have.