ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 4066
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| Date: | Tuesday 22 February 1972 |
| Time: | 07:05 |
| Type: |  Beechcraft D18S (C-45H) |
| Owner/operator: | Alii Air Hawaii |
| Registration: | N5642V |
| MSN: | AF-721 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 8.5 nm SW of Laau Point, Molokai, HI -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Honolulu, HI |
| Lanai, HI | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Alii Air Hawaii Flight 143, a Beech D18S, N5642V, was a scheduled air taxi passenger and cargo flight operating under visual flight rules from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Lanai, Hawaii. The flight departed Honolulu at 0645 HST and crashed
into the Pacific Ocean in the Kalohi Channel area at a point approximately 38 nautical miles southeast of Honolulu International Airport and 8.5 nautical miles southwest of Laau Point, Molokai, Hawaii. All aboard, seven revenue passengers and the pilot, were injured fatally. The bodies of three of the passengers and the pilot were lost at sea and were not recovered, The aircraft was destroyed and sank into the ocean, the depth of which in that area varies from 1,200 feet to 6,000 feet.
Pilots flying in the vicinity of the crash site at the time of the accident reported that there were well-developed rain showers and thunderstorms with associated turbulence, lightning, and hail in the area; however, visual flight could be maintained by circumnavigation of this weather activity.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was flight into an area of known instrument meteorological conditions containing thunderstorm activity, which culminated in a collision with the water for unknown reasons.
Note: c/n AF-721 is a C-45H Expeditor, not a D18S (in all sources), but in this standard; c/n A-721 is a Beechcraft D18S delivered to RCAF as version 3TM with new c/n CA-721...
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR72-23.pdf
2. http://www3.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=63073&key=0
Images:
Photo was taken at Wheeler AFB, Hawaii in February, 1965
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Feb-2008 12:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 06-Sep-2008 12:26 | Fly911 | Updated |
| 06-Apr-2011 15:08 | TB | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Apr-2011 06:21 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 07-Apr-2011 10:43 | TB | Updated [Narrative] |
| 24-Feb-2020 21:07 | harro | Updated [Time, Location, Narrative, Accident report, ] |
| 09-Jun-2023 05:09 | Ron Averes | Updated [[Time, Location, Narrative, Accident report, ]] |
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