HONOLULU (KHON2) — Heavy smoke was seen near the airport Tuesday afternoon after a plane crash.
Hawaii DOT said Ualena and Aolele Streets are closed due to the incident.
In video provided to KHON2, thick black smoke was seen billowing out near a building in the industrial area. Fire trucks, presumably ARFF, were seen heading to the scene from the airport.
White smoke was seen in video from a different angle coming from behind a building and State Sheriffs were on-scene as was an HFD pickup truck. EMS was also responding.
Officials confirmed that the plane went down on the Aolele Street side of a yellow building.
“I saw this plane coming from the south end and going around and losing altitude. Coming down it looked like it was like over the United Cargo and going on towards the main terminal but it kept losing altitude, kept losing altitude and losing altitude until there was a big crash. And that’s when everything was just black,” witness Sister Alicia told KHON2.
The Honolulu Emergency Operations Center has been partially activated for this incident.