HONOLULU (AP) - Federal investigators say the wreckage of a plane that crashed and burned on Lanai left a 500-foot debris field.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators arrived at the crash site Friday to begin determining what went wrong.
The twin-engine Piper Navajo Chieftain crashed in former pineapple land of central Lanai Wednesday night, killing the pilot and two Maui County Planning Department Employees. Three other Maui employees were injured.
NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson tells the Honolulu Star-Advertiser (https://ow.ly/u7xfJ ) the plane crashed at a low angle. He says the plane’s fuselage was at the far end of the debris field.
Knudson says the NTSB has no record of transmissions between the pilot and air traffic controllers.
NTSB expects to have a preliminary report on the crash in the next 10 days.
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Information from: Honolulu Star-Advertiser, https://www.staradvertiser.com
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