Kilo Moana assists search for Molokai plane crash wreckage

SOEST's Research Vessel Kilo Moana

Nearly two months after a Cessna plane went missing off Molokai’s northwest coast with three people on board, the plane’s disappearance — as well as its location — remain a mystery. Along with initial Coast Guard and Fire Department searches, nearly 100 Molokai residents and family members of the victims helped scour the land and sea. The University of Hawaii volunteered the efforts of its research vessel Kilo Moana in using sonar to search the topography of the ocean bottom for the wreckage. Yet the definitive evidence has still not been found on the wreckage.

Read more in the Molokai Dispatch.