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Article: No loss of life in crash relieves plane's owner
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- May 20, 2001
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When Mokulele Flight Service owner Kawehi Inaba heard Friday morning that one of the company's planes had made an emergency water landing off the Big Island's Hamakua Coast, her heart sank.
Fifteen minutes later, when she got word that pilot Michael Lauro and his four passengers had been rescued, "it was a difference of night and day," she said yesterday. "Nothing else mattered to me after I found out they were OK."
The Cessna 337, a plane with engines in front of and behind the cabin, had been on a circle-island tour, flying counterclockwise from its Kailua-Kona base, Inaba said. After ditching the plane near Paauilo, Lauro, 47, helped his passengers get out before the plane sank.
The ...