Terrifying moment plane crashes into building near Honolulu airport killing two as chilling audio transmission reveals pilot's five final words
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The terrifying audio has revealed a pilot's final five words as his aircraft plummeted into a building near Honolulu airport, leaving two dead. Emergency services responded to a training flight that crashed into a building near Daniel K. Inouye International Airport on Tuesday around 3pm.
Kamaka Flight 689 was seen flying at an alarmingly low altitude by witnesses who feared the aircraft was going down. The chilling final words of the pilot were revealed as the audio transmission from on board heard the pilot reporting: 'We're out of control here.'.
The pilot was advised to land as safely as they could on 'any runway, any place you can do,' before it crashed into the side of the airport-owned building. 'You're turning right, right?' the tower was heard asking the pilot. 'We are... we have... uh... we're out of control here,' the pilot responded.
'Okay, if you can land, if you can level it off, that's fine. Any runway, any place you can do,' they responded. Witnesses saw the plane flying alarmingly low as the pilot was heard reporting they were 'out of control'. Smoke was seen billowing from the wreckage, which was said to have fallen in the parking lot of the building.
Smoke was seen billowing from the wreckage, which was said to have fallen in the parking lot of the building. Honolulu Fire Department Chief Sheldon Hao told Hawaii News Now that fortunately the building was abandoned at the time, and added that it 'was a best-case scenario, no one else was involved.'.