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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