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COURTESY KAUAI COUNTY
A Blue Hawaiian tour helicopter made a hard landing at Kalalau Beach on Sunday afternoon.
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Three passengers who suffered injuries Sunday afternoon in the hard landing of a tour helicopter on Kauai were reported in guarded condition Tuesday.
Wilcox Hospital spokeswoman Faith Campbell said paramedics transported the three passengers to Wilcox from the crash site in Kalalau. They were later transferred to the Queen’s Medical Center on Oahu in guarded condition.
“The pilot and three other passengers were all in stable condition and/or discharged,” said Campbell on Tuesday in an emailed statement about the hard landing by Blue Hawaiian Helicopters’ Airbus E130 T2.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of the hard landing.
Californian ID’d as crash victim
A pedestrian killed in a hit-and-run accident in front of Maui Marketplace in Kahului on Friday night has been identified as Adam Riley of Oceanside, Calif., Maui police said Tuesday.
The 41-year-old was walking outside a crosswalk on Dairy Road at 9:24 p.m. Friday when he was struck by a truck going north on the road about 115 feet south of Ohekani Street, police said.
The truck, described as a midsize pickup, sustained front-end damage and a broken headlight. It fled the area, continuing north on Dairy Road, police said.
The pedestrian was transported to the Maui Memorial Medical Center in critical condition, and later died at the facility.