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==Accidents and incidents== {| class="wikitable" !Date !Flight number !Information |- |October 28, 1989 |[[Aloha Island Air Flight 1712|MKU1712]] |[[Aloha Island Air Flight 1712]], a [[de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter]] registered as N707PV, collided with mountains at night near [[Halawa, Molokai|Halawa Valley]], Molokai, while en route on a scheduled passenger flight from [[Kahului Airport]] to Molokai Airport in Hoolehua. The [[NTSB]] determined the cause of the accident was the airplane's controlled flight into terrain as a result of the decision of the captain to continue the flight under [[visual flight rules]] at night into instrument meteorological conditions, which obscured rising mountains.<ref name="NTSB-WP1712">{{cite web|title=Archived copy|url=http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR90-05.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207085349/http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR90-05.pdf|archive-date=2012-02-07|url-status=usurped|access-date=2012-02-02}}</ref> All 20 aboard the aircraft died. 13 of the victims were from Molokai, including eight members of the Molokai High School boys' and girls' volleyball teams and two faculty members. The girls' team had just qualified on Maui for the state tournament.<ref name="AlohaIslandAir1712">[http://starbulletin.com/1999/10/28/news/story2.html Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |- |May 10, 2000 |N/A |A Rockwell [[North American Sabreliner]] 65 operated by Price Aircraft Company inbound from [[Kahului Airport]] impacted a mountain ridge 3.3 miles SW of Kaunakaka on a night visual approach to MKK. All six occupants (two crew, four passengers) were killed.<ref>{{ASN accident|id=20000510-0|accessdate=November 6, 2020|title=N241H}}</ref> |}
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