User:Musashi1600/Aloha IslandAir Flight 1712

Aloha IslandAir Flight 1712 was a regularly scheduled Hawaii interisland flight from Hana Airport on Maui to Honolulu International Airport on Oahu, via Kahului International Airport on Maui and Molokai Airport on Molokaʻi. On October 28, 1989, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft operating the flight crashed into the mountains near Halawa Valley on the northwestern end of Molokai, killing the 18 passengers and 2 crew aboard.

Flight description
On October 28, 1989, Flight 1712 departed Kahului International Airport at 6:25pm, bound for Molokai Airport on the second of a three-leg flight. Onboard were 2 flight crew and 18 passengers, including 10 players and coaches from the Molokai High School volleyball team who were returning from a series of games in the state high school volleyball tournament on Maui. The flight was scheduled to arrive at Molokai Airport at 6:50pm. Radar contact with the aircraft was lost at 6:36pm, as it approached the coast of Molokaʻi Island, and the flight was declared missing about an hour later at 7:30pm. The wreckage was found at 6:25am the following morning near Halawa Valley, about 600 feet above sea level.

Aftermath
Litigation by the victims' survivors against Aloha Air Group (Aloha IslandAir's parent company) continued until 1994. A group of victim's families that received settlements subsequently used the money to establish a scholarship fund to benefit Molokaʻi High School students.