A conservation officer for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources cited a boater Sunday for netting undersized fish in Keehi Small Boat Harbor and confiscated the man’s 16-foot skiff as well as 3,500 feet of net and dozens of undersized fish.
According to DLNR, the conservation officer patrolling the harbor investigated the man’s boat after observing it pass the dock and later return.
DLNR said the boater is a Windward Oahu resident and commercial fisherman. If convicted of a petty misdemeanor, he faces a $500 fine and as much as a year in jail.
Engine problem forces plane to land on Maui
A Hawaiian Airlines flight headed to Hawaii island from Honolulu made an emergency landing Tuesday morning on Maui when one of its two engines malfunctioned.
No injuries were reported among the 73 passengers or the crew of five.
One engine was smoking when the aircraft landed at Kahului Airport, and state firefighters sprayed foam to douse the engine, said Tim Sakahara, state Department of Transportation spokesman.
Flight 118 left Honolulu at 6:55 a.m. for Kailua-Kona, but its flight crew decided to land at Kahului Airport at 7:26 a.m. when it "experienced a left engine surge en route," Hawaiian Airlines spokeswoman Ann Botticelli reported. All the passengers remained on the Boeing 717 after it touched down.
Two of Kahului Airport’s runways were closed at 7:40 a.m., delaying or diverting other flights. Sakahara said he didn’t know how many flights were affected, but said the effect was "minimal." The airport reopened at 8:25 a.m. after foam and other debris were cleared from the runways, Sakahara said.
Flight 118 then taxied to a gate under its own power, Hawaiian Airlines said. Botticelli said the passengers were accommodated on later flights to Kona Airport.
The incident marks the second emergency landing for Hawaiian Airlines on Maui this month.
On May 1 a Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 767-300 jet carrying 224 passengers and 10 crew members on a flight to Oakland, Calif., returned to Maui and made an emergency landing after fumes were detected in the cabin because of malfunctioning equipment that controls air pressure and recycles cabin air, the airline said. No serious injuries were reported, but two people suffered minor injuries while evacuating on emergency slides.
