HONOLULU (AP) — Officials in Hawaii have raised the death toll to 11 after a plane carrying skydivers crashed on Oahu.
Timothy Sakahara, a spokesman for the state transportation department, said Saturday that authorities have confirmed there were 11 people onboard the plane that went down shortly after taking off Friday night from a small North Shore airport
Sakahara says there were no survivors.
The Honolulu Fire Department said the plane was fully engulfed in flames when they arrived.
Officials had initially said there were nine people on board the airplane, and all perished.
The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team of investigators to probe the cause of the deadly crash.
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