Even 60 years after her brother’s death, Jean Pinataro still cries when she talks about Albert. Plane crash victims are always mourned, but especially so in Albert’s case, where both the cause of the crash remains officially unsolved and his body never recovered. The crash of Pan Am Flight 7 on Nov. 8, 1957 is one of the worst unsolved aviation disasters in American history. … [Read more...] about ‘Romance of the Skies’ – Finding family history in a mysterious 60-year-old plane crash
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NOTW: Electric building shakers, illegal engineering and people who sue kindergartners
SWEET, SWEET REVENGE It’s legal in China to sell electric “building shakers” whose primary purpose apparently is to wreak aural havoc on apartment-dwellers’ unreasonably noisy neighbors. Models sell for the equivalent of $11 to $58–each with a long pole to rest on the floor, extending ceiling height to an electric motor braced against the shared ceiling or wall and whose only … [Read more...] about NOTW: Electric building shakers, illegal engineering and people who sue kindergartners
Maui County Planning Officials say they want to change ‘the process’ of crafting community plans
When Alexander & Baldwin announced back in January that they would close their Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar (HC&S) mill in Pu`unene–the last operating sugar mill in the state of Hawaii–nervous eyes looked around the island. What would become of the land? they asked. Company officials announced that some manner of "diversified agriculture" would be their prime focus, … [Read more...] about Maui County Planning Officials say they want to change ‘the process’ of crafting community plans
Maui County Planning Department Will ‘Revisit’ Travel Logistics To Neighbor Islands
Last week I reported that a vocal contingent of County of Maui employees were nervous about the recent spate of small plane crashes on Maui and the neighbor islands. The story was anecdotal, based on my talking with various sources through a few different departments, but made the case that a considerable number of employees didn’t like having to fly to Lanai and Molokai so … [Read more...] about Maui County Planning Department Will ‘Revisit’ Travel Logistics To Neighbor Islands
Recent Small Plane Crashes Are Making County Of Maui Employees Nervous
Normally, I don’t attend press conferences, much less ask questions at press conferences, but everything about the Feb. 27 gathering at the Mayor’s Lounge, on the ninth floor of the Kalana O Maui building in Wailuku, was different. It was in response to the crash of an Maui Air charter flight–a Piper Chieftan–on Lanai the night before that killed three people and injured three … [Read more...] about Recent Small Plane Crashes Are Making County Of Maui Employees Nervous