Accidents
Hawaii Tour Helo Wreckage Found—Seven Dead
The wreckage of a missing Safari Helicopters Airbus AS350 B2 has been found on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

On Friday the Coast Guard located wreckage of an air tour helicopter that went missing on the Hawaiian island of Kauai Thursday afternoon. All seven aboard the Safari Helicopters Airbus AS350B2 were killed, including Safari’s chief pilot, Paul Matero, 69. Matero held a commercial rotorcraft rating issued in 2011 and a second-class FAA physical with limitations for corrective lenses. He was scheduled to retire in early 2020. The six passengers were described as two separate families, one from Switzerland and the other from Wisconsin that included a 47-year-old woman and her 13-year-old daughter.


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