9 people are believed dead after a twin-engine aircraft went down near a Hawaii airfield, the Hawaii Dept. of Transportation said.
update: With extreme sadness HDOT reports there were 9 souls on board the King Air twin engine plane that went down near Dillingham Airfield with no apparent survivors.Officials with the Honolulu Fire Department told KHNL that the first reports of a downed aircraft came in at 6:30 p.m., and when firefighters arrived they found the wreckage of the plane fully engulfed in flames.
The airport is a public and military use airport, but officials told the station that the plane that crashed was not a military aircraft.a traffic advisory that stated a highway was closed due to a skydiving aircraft accident. The Hawaii Department of Transportation operates Dillingham Airfield under a lease from the Army, according to its website.that he was closely following developments.
"At this time our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the victims," Caldwell said. Two inspectors from the Federal Aviation Administration were at the crash site Friday evening, the agency said in a statement.
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