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The Latest: Police: Hawaii crash victims were 9 men, 2 women

4 years 9 months 3 weeks ago Sunday, June 23 2019 Jun 23, 2019 June 23, 2019 2:28 PM June 23, 2019 in News - AP Texas Headlines

HONOLULU (AP) - The Latest on a plane crash in Hawaii that killed 11 sky divers (all times local):

9:25 a.m.

Some details are starting to be released about the 11 victims who died when a plane carrying sky divers crashed near a small airport on the North Shore of Oahu.

Police told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that the victims were nine men and two women.

Both women and three of the men were all in their late 20s. Police, who didn't return messages to The Associated Press, didn't have ages on the six others.

Names of the victims have not been released. A spokesman for the mayor's office says the earliest any information will be released by the Honolulu medical examiner's office will be Monday.

The crash appeared to be the worst U.S. civil aviation accident since a 2011 accident at the Reno Air Show in Nevada that killed the pilot and 10 spectators.

12:00 a.m.

Casey Williamson's love of adventure led him to winter snowboarding in Vail, Colorado, and summer skydiving in Moab, Utah. A year-and-a-half ago, he found his way to Hawaii where he could skydive year-round.

On Friday, the 29-year-old was among 11 killed when their skydiving plane crashed and burned at a coastal airfield on the island of Oahu. No one on board survived.

It was the worst civilian aviation accident in the U.S. since 2011.

Williamson's cousin Natacha Mendenhall says Williamson was his mother Carla Ajaga's only child.

She says the family is very upset. She says his mother wants everyone to know how full of life and how loving her son was.

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