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JATour Plane Found; No Survivors
June 23, 2008
A tour plane missing on the Big Island was found on Sunday on the slopes of Mauna Loa. There were no survivors. Yesterday, helicopter crews recovered the bodies of pilot Katsuhiro Takahashi of Kona and his two Japanese passengers Nobuhiro Suzuki and his wife, Masako. The plane was found by helicopter pilot David Okita on the Southeastern slope of Mauna Loa at an elevation of around 5,200 feet.
