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Hawaii Plane Crash Kills 11 People, Officials Say | |
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All 11 people aboard a plane taking passengers on a skydiving trip were killed after the plane crashed and burned on Friday night north of Honolulu, authorities said. | |
The plane, a twin-engine Beechcraft BE65, crashed under unknown circumstances while taking off from Dillingham Airfield on Oahu’s North Shore around 6:30 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said. The plane was destroyed by the fire, according to the agency. | The plane, a twin-engine Beechcraft BE65, crashed under unknown circumstances while taking off from Dillingham Airfield on Oahu’s North Shore around 6:30 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said. The plane was destroyed by the fire, according to the agency. |
“In my 40 years as a firefighter here in Hawaii, this is the most tragic aircraft incident that we’ve had,” Manny Neves, fire chief for the Honolulu Fire Department, said at a news conference on Friday night. “We had some helicopters with the military, but this is a civilian plane that went down.” | “In my 40 years as a firefighter here in Hawaii, this is the most tragic aircraft incident that we’ve had,” Manny Neves, fire chief for the Honolulu Fire Department, said at a news conference on Friday night. “We had some helicopters with the military, but this is a civilian plane that went down.” |
He added: “There is nothing left of the plane.” | He added: “There is nothing left of the plane.” |
The authorities have identified the skydiving company but not released its name. The names of the victims were also not released. | |
The Hawaii Department of Transportation said Saturday that 11 people were on the plane and that there were no survivors. It is unclear how many of those on board were passengers. | |
No one at the airfield was available to comment on Saturday. | No one at the airfield was available to comment on Saturday. |
Chief Neves said the cause of the crash was not known. | |
The National Transportation Safety Board was sending a team to investigate, an agency spokesman, Eric Weiss, said. | The National Transportation Safety Board was sending a team to investigate, an agency spokesman, Eric Weiss, said. |