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11 dead in aircraft crash at Dillingham Airfield

By Dennis Oda and Bruce Asato

June 21, 2019

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North Shore residents describe Friday's plane crash at Dillingham Airfield. Several were in the area at the time of the crash. All 11 on board died.
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A memorial sprung up for victims of Friday's skydiving plane crash at Dillingham Airfield in Mokuleia. The death toll was the highest from a civilian air crash in 20 years.
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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM

The death toll on Saturday rose to 11 from the fiery crash of an aircraft that took off on a sunset skydive flight in Mokuleia and became one of Hawaii’s deadliest civilian aviation disasters.
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The plane that crashed Friday had experienced “aircraft structural failure” during a 2016 skydiving accident over Byron, Calif., according to the NTSB.
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A memorial is set up on Saturday along the fence line at Dillingham Airfield near the site of a plane crash that killed 11 people.
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Brian Raley left flowers Saturday at a memorial set up along the fence line at Dillingham Airfield near the site of a plane crash that killed 11 people. Behind him is a friend of some of the victims.
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Shelley Hillberry and Brian Jones showed a painting Saturday that Brian painted with his friend Mike Martin, who died in Friday’s plane crash on Dillingham Airfield. Jones said he was going to get the other friends of theirs to sign it and give it to Martin’s family.
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Shelley Hillberry and Brian Jones get emotional on Saturday at the memorial site at Dillingham Airfield after they laid some flowers for Mike Martin. Jones also brought Martin's favorite beer, a 6-pack of Coors.
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Brian Jones and Shelley Hillberry embrace each other at the memorial site on Saturday at Dillingham Airfield.
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From left to right, Machille Pedro, Brenda Rivera, Isabella Brown (Pedro's daughter) and Rosalinda Santiago leave flowers after they said a prayer for the victims on Saturday. They said it could of been them as they were scheduled to go skydiving at 2 p.m. Saturday, but naturally, their scheduled dive was cancelled.
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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM

Lei drape over the fence line at Dillingham Airfield in Mokuleia where eleven people died on Friday.
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According to officials, the twin-engine Beechcraft BE65-A90 operated by Oahu Parachute Center was engulfed in flames where it crashed on the Dillingham Airfield fence line Friday. An initial report indicated nine crewmembers and passengers were aboard with no survivors. This is the crash site on Saturday.
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Police and sheriffs patrolling the area of the crash site at Dillingham Airfield on Saturday. The Honolulu Police Department said the dead included three men, ages 27, 28 and 29; two women, ages 26 and 27; and six males, whose ages were not released.
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Police and sheriffs patrolling the area of the crash site at Dillingham Airfield on Saturday. The crash was the worst that Honolulu Fire Chief Manuel Neves had seen in his career, he told reporters Friday.
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BRUCE ASATO / BASATO@STARADVERTISER.COM

Remnants of an aircraft lays on the ground near a fence that surrounds Dillingham Airfield in Mokuleia on Friday.
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Honolulu Fire Department units line Farrington Highway as first responders gathered at the crash scene on Friday.
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Firefighters gathered on Farrington Highway near the scene of the crash on Friday at Dillingham Airfield.
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Honolulu Fire Department units line Farrington Highway as first responders gathered at the crash scene on Friday.
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Firefighters gathered on Farrington Highway near the scene of the crash at Dillingham Airfield on Friday.
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Honolulu Fire Department units line Farrington Highway as first responders gathered at the crash scene on Friday.
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