Hawaii skydiving plane crash kills all 9 people aboard

[TomSea]

Updated June 22, 2019 at 10:13 AM
Hawaii skydiving plane crash kills all 9 people aboard
By  Sommer Brokaw
A plane crashed in Oahu's North Shore killing all nine people aboard. Photo of Hawaii's North on May 26, 2011. File Photo by Roman Eugeniusz [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)] / Wikimedia Commons

June 22 (UPI) -- A small plane crashed during a skydiving excursion in Hawaii, killing all nine aboard, authorities said.

The King Air twin-engine plane crashed Friday evening near Dillingham Airfield on Oahu's north shore with nine people aboard and "no apparent survivors," the Hawaii Department of Transportation tweeted.

The aircraft operated by the Oahu Parachute Center crashed about 6:30 p.m. Of the nine killed, three were customers on a skydiving excursion, and six were employees, Hawaii News Now staff reported.

Read more at: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/06/22/Hawaii-skydiving-plane-crash-kills-all-9-people-aboard/2501561210539/

A few years ago, on the US mainland, there was an accident a bit like this, skydiving company's plane crashed. This sounds a bit like that. A great tragedy.

[truth_seeker]

Quite a minimal bit of "journalism."