Hawaii small plane crash today/ Cessna 208B?

[Orange Juice]

Here’s the one of the videos.

It appears to have enough airspeed, initially, but the steep bank angle make be thing he had no rudder control in the turn to level out in time to recover.

When I was in Maui on Vacation for a week, I put my name on stand by, to rent any slot that was unfilled on a C-172 trainer, and also offered the Instructor with a cancelled time slot, 5 times his hourly pay in a cash tip. I ended up going in the afternoon during a trades wind day, and flew 1.5 hours, and got a Bi-Annual sign off.

 

[Singleton]

My sister owns an aircraft insurance brokerage company.
She had all the Hawaiian helicopters tour companies and a large percentage of charter companies.
It got so hard to get someone to underwrite those contracts, she finally existed the market.
Lets just say maintenance is not P1 for most of those places and the claims were eating way too much time

 

[paradise]

Sounds like only two on board. Weird for a caravan.

Edit-disregard, cargo flight

 

[530RL]

Sounds like only two on board. Weird for a caravan.

Edit-disregard, cargo flight

Alleged to be a Training flight.

 

[wzuber]

My sister owns an aircraft insurance brokerage company.
She had all the Hawaiian helicopters tour companies and a large percentage of charter companies.
It got so hard to get someone to underwrite those contracts, she finally existed the market.
Lets just say maintenance is not P1 for most of those places and the claims were eating way too much time

So you're saying taking a helo ride on your hawaiian vaca may not be in your families best interest?

 

[Cobalt232]

Gust locks not removed??

 

[Taboma]

So you're saying taking a helo ride on your hawaiian vaca may not be in your families best interest?

My wife and I have done it at least 6 times, on Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii.
My fishing buddy was a pilot for US Air and wouldn't fly helos, but stated if I must, then fly on a Bell Long Ranger, which is I guess is a distant cousin to the Army Hueys I was well acquainted with, and structurally stronger for better occupant protection (His opinion).

With that in mind, I canceled a ride we had previously book on Kauai with a company that used the French Aerospatiale and re-booked with another using the Bell Rangers.
About 3/4 of the tour while starting to explore the Waimea Canyon, our headphones go dead and the pilot is speaking rather franticly over his headset. Following this brief conversation he's rapidly gaining altitude up and away from the canyon. He comes on over the headphones and announces that a helo just went down up ahead and since we're close by, we've been ask to try to locate it. Sure enough, within a couple of minutes we were down low over the canyon and spotted it resting on it's side on the canyon floor. Thankfully we could see the occupants emerging and seemed OK.
Where it gets really weird is, that's the company and model of Helo and it's highly likely, that would have been our flight had I noticed cancelled.
Needless to say, the mood onboard our flight had waned considerably and I know my wife in particular was rather anxious for the pilot to land that bitch.

We didn't fly for a couple of years, but not long after that we were back up in one for a an amazing Glacier Tour. I love flying in Helos, civilian or military.

I will add, that during the years we were flying Hawaiin tours, most of our pilots were X-military.

 

[spectras only]

I have only been in a Bell 47. Cool bird for sure, but the Aerospatiale I like better. Only flown a Lama, but it was a R/C model.