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DISTRIBUTED AT LPC 8-9-23 HEARING <br /> Item #6 WDC Properties LLC (PL-SPP-2023-040) <br /> 2023-08-07 Email Testimony Cory Harden <br /> From: cow Received within 48 hrs of LPC hearing <br /> To: LPCtestimonv <br /> Subject: comments: item#6 Aug 9 <br /> Date: Monday,August 7,2023 11:30:17 PM <br /> Attachments: temp 2023 8-9 helo LPC.docx <br /> attachment is identical <br /> comments on agenda item #6 WDC PROPERTIES, LLC (PL-SPP-2023-000040) heliport in Waikoloa <br /> for Leeward Planning Commission, 9:30 AM Wednesday, August 6, 2023,West Hawaii Civic Center <br /> from Cory Harden, Hilo 333coryl@gmail.com <br /> Please ask Blue Hawaiian (BH) helicopters about safety and noise, and about their plans if they don't <br /> get future extensions. <br /> Also please ask staff about the missing Exhibit B (see below). <br /> SAFETY <br /> BH has had four crashes, killing twelve people and injuring eleven more, since 2000. <br /> Would Hawaiian Airlines be allowed to keep flying with a record like that? <br /> In 2000, seven people died in a BH crash on Maui. <br /> "The report from the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington said pilot Larry <br /> Kirsch likely became disoriented before crashing..." <br /> https://www.mkpla i nview.com/news/article/Report-Pi lot-at-fa u It-i n-fata I-copter-crash- <br /> 8777357.php, April 9, 2003 <br /> In 2011, five people died in a BH crash on Moloka'i. <br /> "The likely cause of a Molokai helicopter crash that killed all five people aboard was the pilot <br /> flying too close to the mountains during inclement weather, the National Transportation <br /> Safety Board determined in a final report published Friday...." <br /> https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/report-blames-pilot-for-2011-hawaii-copter- <br /> crash-that-killed-local-couple/,July 26, 2014 <br /> And BH failed to clean up afterwards. <br /> "A federal jury awarded more than $160,000 in damages to a Molokai landowner who sued <br /> Blue Hawaiian Helicopters for failing to do reasonable cleanup after a fatal tour helicopter <br /> crash on his property in Pukoo on Molokai's East End." <br /> https://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2016/11/160k-awarded-to-landowner-for- <br /> failed-crash-debris-cleanup/ November18, 2016 <br /> In 2016, six people were injured in a BH crash on Kaua'i. <br /> "...a chopper touring the Na Pali Coast went down on a beach. All six passengers ended up <br /> suing Blue Hawaiian Helicopters for negligence." <br /> https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/12/28/hawaii-has-seen-civilian-helicopter-crashes- <br />