Airport Operations
Airport use: Open to the public
Activation date: 10/1941
Sectional chart: HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
Control tower: no
ARTCC: HONOLULU CONTROL FACILITY CENTER
FSS: HONOLULU FLIGHT SERVICE STATION
NOTAMs facility: MKK (NOTAM-D service available)
Attendance: MON-FRI 0700-1530
Right. I had looked up information about this also, this afternoon. They have to use the control tower at the Molokai Airport. I’ve been looking up articles that have been scrubbed from the Google results and/or from the web, finding them cited in other places and learning all kinds of stuff. Mark Miller, DOH Administrator for Kalaupapa, said they were using the airport for triage. He must have been talking about the Kalaupapa Airport. From there they took people to the Molokai Medical Center or else to Honolulu. But they took Fuddy and Yamamoto to this “care center” first, where the priest gave conditional last rites to Fuddy and consoled a distraught Yamamoto. The priest said he gave conditional last rites because he didn’t know when Fuddy died but he understood she might have been dead for up to 2 hours by that time. Miller claimed that everybody was accounted for by 4:30pm, with Fuddy and a man in the Coast Guard helicopter. The man survived but they couldn’t revive Fuddy, he said.
The scrubbed articles I’m finding raise a lot of questions, to say the least. The accounts of Miller, Lang, Kawasaki, and Hollstein have a lot of discrepancies between them.
Thanks for finding there was no tower there. If the plane departed at the scheduled time of 3:35 and crashed a minute later, the airport personnel didn’t tarry getting the front door locked and gone by 3:30. Maybe it’s just me, but I would have at least waited to make sure my last plane got off ok and would have seen it coming back. Surely, the other airport tower would have had an emergency number for the airport personnel there to report the signal. All the airports around here are little nothings so aren’t staffed after 5, if at all, but they have emergency numbers. Ok, there are mountains but it’s still a strange set of events.