Archive image: A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Barber’s Point MH-65 Dolphin aircrew conducts an engine rinse after a training flight.
Engine Rinses are completed after every offshore flight in order to prolong the life of the air crafts engines.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Robertson.
HONOLULU – The Coast Guard is searching for two people in the water after a Robinson R44 helicopter crash off the Na Pali Coast in Kauai, Hawaii. Thursday, July 11, 2024.
Coast Guard Sector Honolulu command center watchstanders received a report from Kauai Fire Department personnel at approximately 1:40 p.m. of a helicopter that crashed with three people aboard approximately a quarter mile off the Na Pali Coast of Kauai. A hiker on the Kalalau trail saw the helicopter crash into the water and notified the fire department.
Coast Guard Sector Honolulu watchstanders directed the launch of an HC-130J Super Hercules airplane aircrew and an MH-65E Dolphin Short-Range Recovery Helicopter aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point, a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Kauai, and the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Gerczak, a 154-foot Sentinel-class cutter homeported in Honolulu.
Kauai Ocean Safety Bureau Lifeguards embarked jet skis from Hanalei Bay, arrived on scene, and recovered an unresponsive individual from the water.
The Kauai Fire Department responded with an Air 1 helicopter crew, zodiac rescue watercraft crews, and Ocean Safety officers aboard jet skis.
The helicopter that crashed, a Robinson R44 from the Ali’i Kauai Air Tours and Charters company in Kauai, flew with one pilot and two passengers aboard.
Anyone with information that may assist search efforts should contact Sector Honolulu at (808) 842-2603.
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