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ABC News by  Jeffrey Cook  and Mark Osborne Jun 23, 2019

 The twin-engine King Air plane crashed Friday about 6:30 p.m. local time and killed everyone on board, according to the Hawaii Department of Transportation.

Initial reports indicated nine people were on the plane before the Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday afternoon that 11 died.

"There's nothing left of the plane," Honolulu Fire Chief Manuel P. Neves told reporters at the airport.

Dillingham Airfield is located on the northwest coast of Oahu, the opposite side from the state's capital of Honolulu. The airfield is used for both military and civilian aircraft.

The same plane was involved in a near-accident in July 2016, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report. The Beech 65-A90 sustained "substantial damage" while taking of from an airport in Byron, California, but the 14 sky divers and pilot were not injured.

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