Department of Land and Natural Resources firefighting personnel on Kaua‘i contained a fire near the end of the 11-mile Kalalau hiking trail at the Kalalau campground, according to a DLNR statement.
Port Allen-based Inter-Island Helicopters reported the fire while running a tour of Napali Coast this morning. Inter-Island is also the sole helicopter responder for fires [...]

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Divers from the FBI’s Los Angeles office will try to find the missing tail rotor of the Inter-Island Helicopter that crashed last month on Kauai’s North Shore, killing a California man.
The FBI dive team, which has met with local dive shops to gather information, volunteered for the assignment, said lead investigator Jim Silliman, of the [...]

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Parts from both helicopters that crashed on-island earlier this month are in the possession of the National Transportation Safety Board’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., spokesman Keith Holloway said yesterday.
That is the most up-to-date information the NTSB has released on its two investigations into the accidents that happened within four days of each other. The first [...]

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The National Transportation Board’s preliminary report on the second of two deadly helicopter crashes on Kauai was made public Friday. The report does not give the definitive cause of the crash, but offers clues including information about fractures on the tail of the chopper that may have been caused by stress.
The Inter-Island Helicopters aircraft [...]

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Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board have found two possible problems with the hydraulic system of the AS 350 Heli USA helicopter that crashed March 8 at Princeville, Kauai, killing four people.
In the preliminary report released today on the NTSB Web site, investigators said they found that the hydraulic sight glass was broken and [...]

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The families of the victims of a deadly helicopter crash on Kauai want answers about what exactly happened. The Heli USA Airways chopper crashed one week ago Thursday. John O’ Donnell and Magaret Inglebrecht are two of the four people killed in the crash. O’Donnell’s wife, Veronica and Inglebrecht’s husband, Cornelius Scholtz, were injured. Their [...]

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