On Wednesday night, Amy, Carrie and I were working out at the gym when there was a big boom. Even through my music I could hear and feel the boom. It seemed weird but since I was running on the treadmill and listening to music, I didn't really know what was happening. Then several fire trucks and police cars came racing by. I figured that something must have exploded.
When we finished at the gym, we walked outside and saw a commotion. We walked closer to the chaos and saw what had happened. A small plane had crashed into the BMW dealership. It destroyed about ten cars. When we got to the scene, it was still on fire. You could see the damaged cars but you couldn't see the plane because of the thick cloud of smoke surrounding that area. There were so many other curious people around: primarily lots of Hawaiians and mulleted people.
The next day I found out more information about the crash. It was an air ambulance- a small plane that was coming to transport a patient from Maui to Oahu. The occupants were the pilot and two nurses. These three people were the only casualties since the BMW dealership was closed for the day. They are not yet sure exactly what happened to cause the accident. It was pretty crazy and sad for those involved.
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The FAA preliminary report dosent list any causues, it just says all three people died. It will probably be a couple of months until they have a final report out with cause...
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** Report created 3/16/2006 Record 1 **
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IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 5601C Make/Model: C414 Description: 414, Chancellor
Date: 03/09/2006 Time: 0513
Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Destroyed
LOCATION
City: KAHULUI State: HI Country: US
DESCRIPTION
ACFT, ON APPROACH LOST ENGINE POWER AND CRASHED INTO A CAR DEALERSHIP, THE
THREE PERSONS ON BOARD WERE FATALLY INJURED, KAHULUI, MAUI, HI
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 3
# Crew: 1 Fat: 1 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 2 Fat: 2 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
WEATHER: OGG METAR 0515 UTC 11009KTS 10SM FEW100 25/19 A3002
OTHER DATA
Departed: HONOLULU, HI Dep Date: Dep. Time:
Destination: KAHULUI, HI Flt Plan: IFR Wx Briefing:
Last Radio Cont: SOUTH OF THE AIRPORT
Last Clearance: CLRD TO LAND
FAA FSDO: HONOLULU, HI (WP13) Entry date: 03/09/2006
Usually in these type of things it ends up being fuel exhaustion, which sounds stupid but it happens all the time. Especially considering that this plane is a twin-engine, a problem with an engine should not bring the thing down. Could also be fire but that it much more unusual. The weather was fine so it was not a factor.
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