https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/12/18/plane-crashes-near-honolulu-airport/(RIP)
By HNN Staff
Published: Dec. 17, 2024 at 8:46 PM EST|Updated: 9 hours ago
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Two people were killed when a plane crashed into a building near Daniel K. Inouye International Airport Tuesday afternoon.
It happened at around 3:05 p.m. on Aolele Street.
State officials said a Kamaka Air Cessna 208 Caravan was conducting a training flight when it crashed into a vacant, state-owned building that was slated for demolition.
Both people on board died. A witness who works in the area tells Hawaii News Now he heard a loud crash and saw a plane on fire.
“I was working and all of a sudden had a loud, one big boom, and I looked out and there was just some freaking clouds of smoke and my coworkers told me a plane crashed right next to our building,” he said. “I was sitting at my desk and all of a sudden, I saw a small plane fly past my office window, which is on the seventh floor. And I went, ‘Oh, he’s really, really low,' and he started banking and going back towards the airport, and then I heard a loud bang,” she said.
Fire officials said the plane hit the exterior stairwell area, and flames were confined to the exterior portion of the building.