Small Plane Crashes in to Building Near Honolulu Airport

A Kamaka Air Cessna 208 was conducting a training flight when it crashed into the building around 3:15 p.m. local time Tuesday, Ed Sniffen, the director of Hawaii’s Department of Transportation, told reporters. 

It’s not a charter flight; it was a training flight,” Sniffen said. “Two souls were on board. Both perished.”

The building, owned by the Transportation Department, was vacant.

Sniffen noted that the pilots, according to witnesses, avoided “quite a bit of structures, including our fuel farm, to minimize the impacts.”

The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the cause of the crash.