A state mission to remove rubbish from a remote Westside valley was partially sidelined yesterday afternoon when one of two helicopters hauling the trash out made a crash-landing at nearby Polihale State Park.
There were no injuries, but the impact ripped the rear assembly off the Inter-Island Air Helicopters Hughes 500 aircraft.
The red Air 1 doorless [...]

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The Goodriches had two daughters and were married 15 years
A Mother’s Day drive in a sports car turned tragic Sunday for the mother and father of two preteen girls.
Paul and Laurie-Ann Goodrich, decades-long residents of Kauai’s North Shore, were killed when he lost control of their 1994 Porsche convertible around a hairpin turn along Koolau [...]

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One of Kauai’s North Shore’s favorite sons passed away tragically late at night on Saturday, March 29th. Son of famed Kauai gentleman surfer Jimmy Lucas, Keoni was driving home late after work towards his Santa Monica, California home and fell asleep at the steering wheel. A memorial will be held Sunday morning at 11am at [...]

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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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