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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 9:56 a.m. alarm Wednesday (March 20) to the Kikaua Point area for the crash of an ultralight aircraft at Kukio in North Kona.

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The Coast Guard and Navy responded Thursday (July 14) to a report of a downed aircraft off the Kona Coast. Searching late Thursday were HC-130 Hercules airplane crews and MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crews from Air Station Barbers Point with a Navy MH-60R helicopter crew from the USS Chung Hoon (DDG-93).

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Two people were killed Wednesday morning when a small aircraft crashed into Kealakekua Bay.

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The Hawai’i Police Department is warning the public that it is dangerous and illegal to aim laser pointers at any aircraft. Police received reports from the Hilo airport tower Wednesday and Thursday nights (October 7 and October 8) reporting that green lasers were being aimed at the cockpits of commercial airline

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Mike Blyth and James Pitman taxi out onto the runway at Torrance Municipal airfield to start their flight to Hawaii. By Baron Sekiya/Hawaii247.com Mike Blyth and James Pitman, owners of The Airplane Factory, are making Hawaii the next stop on their around-the-world flight. They originally planed flying to Hilo but will now land in Kahului, […]

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MEDIA RELEASE NASA is funding the development of a prototype system to provide aircraft with updates about severe storms and turbulence as they fly across remote ocean regions. Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., in partnership with colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, are developing a system that combines […]

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