Paying tribute:
Dozens of colleagues, community members, law enforcement and EMS gathered Thursday at Old Kona Airport Park to pay tribute to the three Hawaii Life Flight crew who perished after their plane went down in the Alenuihaha channel Dec. 15 while on a flight from Maui to Waimea.
Three minutes of silence, one for each of the crew members, began at 5:49 p.m. and concluded at sunset, 5:52 p.m. Many held a source of light in remembrance that the memory of the crew members still burns brightly.
Hawaii Life Flight N13GZ disappeared at 9:27 p.m. last Thursday roughly 15 nautical miles off of Maui’s Hana Coast. Three crew members were en route to pick up a patient from North Hawaii Community Hospital.
The names of the crew members who perished has not yet been made public.
