LIHUE — Kauai police have identified the pilot and passenger killed in Tuesday’s light sport aircraft crash in Waiakamoo Valley, near Polihale Beach. Piloting the aircraft was 54-year-old Kapahi resident Gerry Charlebois. His passenger has been identified as Mark McKenzie,
LIHUE — Kauai police have identified the pilot and passenger killed in Tuesday’s light sport aircraft crash in Waiakamoo Valley, near Polihale Beach.
Piloting the aircraft was 54-year-old Kapahi resident Gerry Charlebois. His passenger has been identified as Mark McKenzie, age 53 of Pickering, Ontario, Canada.
This is the first light sport aircraft crash on Kauai since 2011, when two separate crashes resulted in four fatalities. Two people were killed in a crash off Kauai’s south shore in February of that year.
Then in May, a pilot and passenger died when a light sport aircraft crashed in waters off Kauai’s north shore.
KPD continues to investigate the incident, along with personnel from the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board in Honolulu.
