Alii Air Hawaii, Inc., Flight 143, a Beech D18S, N5642V, was a scheduled visual flight rules air taxi passenger and cargo flight operating from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Lanai, Hawaii. The flight departed Honolulu at 0645 H.s.t., and crashed into the Pacific Ocean in the Kalohi Channel area at a point approximately 38 nautical miles southeast of Honolulu Airport. The accident occurred at approximately 0705 H.s.t. Seven revenue passengers and the pilot were aboard the aircraft, and all were fatally injured. The bodies of three of the passengers and the pilot were not recovered. The aircraft was destroyed and sank into the ocean. There were well-developed rain showers and thunderstorms, with associated turbulence, lightning, and hail in the area; however, visual flight could have been maintained by circumnavigation of this activity. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was flight into an area of known instrument meteorological conditions containing thunderstorm activity, which culminated in a collision with the water for unknown reasons. (Author)
Aircraft Accident Report. Alii Air Hawaii, Inc. Beech D18S, N5642V, Kalohi Channel Hawaiian Islands, February 22, 1972
1972
14 pages
Report
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English