(Honolulu, HI) - Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today released this statement in the aftermath of the small plane crash this morning at Dillingham Airfield on the island of O‘ahu:
“It’s unbelievable that our island community has suffered now a fourth fatal tragedy involving a tour helicopter/small aircraft in less than a year,” said Case.
“I again join with the rest of Hawai‘i in extending my heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of those who were lost in this morning’s incident.
“While it will probably be more than a year until officials are able to determine the cause of this crash, the Federal Aviation Administration cannot treat this as an isolated incident as it did with the previous three, but must immediately ask itself the hard question it has thus far avoided of whether existing tour helicopter/small aircraft regulations are simply inadequate to protect the safety of those in the aircraft and of the over one million of us that they fly over every day.
