No Mo’ on Molokai
October 28, 2007 12:27 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays |
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Day 301 of 2007
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - UE: Mourn, lament
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “The tears fall, the clouds weep.”
October 28, 1989: Tragedy strikes Maui County — An Island Air commuter flight from Maui heading to Molokai crashes into a cliff near the Halawa Valley on Molokai, killing all 20 passengers and crew aboard. Eight of the passengers were the Molokai High School volleyball team.
The plane crashed into a cliff just below the ridgeline, spreading debris more than 300 feet away.
Molokai has the world’s steepest sea cliffs, rising vertically more than 3,000 feet from sea level. They have proved deadly a number of times, more recently in 1996, when another commuter plane, this one carrying State Democratic chair Robert McCarthy and Maui County Councilman Tom Morrow crashed into those same cliffs, killing all eight aboard.
