Comments on: Aiea Loop Trail ( Kalauao Falls and Plane Crash ) http://kenjisaito.com/aiea-loop-trail-kalauao-falls-and-plane-crash/ Zero fox given Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: kenji SAITO http://kenjisaito.com/aiea-loop-trail-kalauao-falls-and-plane-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-36761 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 05:04:39 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=8740#comment-36761 Aloha,
Thanks for sharing your memories. I heard from some old timers of the same thing, that the plane was against the tree and years later a landslide took it down. And then the scavengers came and took everything of value. Sad.
Mahalo

]]> By: Woodiecat http://kenjisaito.com/aiea-loop-trail-kalauao-falls-and-plane-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-36758 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 03:48:42 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=8740#comment-36758 Use to jog that trail in the late ‘70’s and the wing was about 10 feet off the trail on the left side. Not much was made of it back then.

]]> By: kenji SAITO http://kenjisaito.com/aiea-loop-trail-kalauao-falls-and-plane-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-34400 Tue, 03 Mar 2020 22:39:51 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=8740#comment-34400 Aloha Phil,
Thanks for sharing your memories. Always priceless!
Mahalo

]]> By: Phil Turner http://kenjisaito.com/aiea-loop-trail-kalauao-falls-and-plane-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-34370 Thu, 27 Feb 2020 21:33:08 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=8740#comment-34370 Back in the day when I lived in Ai’ea Heights, the trail (such as it was) only ran perhaps 1/4 mile +/- past the bomber wreckage and petered out on the ridge top. There was a bit of an animal track that ran steeply down from there on the Halawa side but I never went down it – us kids were a little spooked by the wild pigs that were “waiting to get us”.

]]> By: Amy http://kenjisaito.com/aiea-loop-trail-kalauao-falls-and-plane-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-25538 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 23:17:58 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=8740#comment-25538 Darn it! Yea you’re probably right and it’s better I be cautious with the little ones. Adultering is so hard. ; )

Thanks again!

Amy

]]> By: kenji SAITO http://kenjisaito.com/aiea-loop-trail-kalauao-falls-and-plane-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-25536 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:32:07 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=8740#comment-25536 Aloha Amy,
You’re welcome. Just my opinion, I would not take your kids down this hike. Perhaps wait a couple more years. Or do it yourself first so you can more accurately gauge the hike for you and your family.
Mahalo

]]> By: Amy http://kenjisaito.com/aiea-loop-trail-kalauao-falls-and-plane-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-25535 Sun, 12 Mar 2017 22:25:29 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=8740#comment-25535 Thx for the post! I’ve been on this hike so many times but never knew there was a waterfall. Do you think I can carry my 1 yr old and have my 4 yr old do it…? Or is that being too ambitious?

]]> By: kenji SAITO http://kenjisaito.com/aiea-loop-trail-kalauao-falls-and-plane-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-24184 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:03:34 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=8740#comment-24184 Aloha Scott,
Thanks. Yeah, at one time I heard the wing was actually propped on the side of a tree on the trail. Then a landslide took everything down to the gully.
Mahalo

]]> By: Scott http://kenjisaito.com/aiea-loop-trail-kalauao-falls-and-plane-crash/comment-page-1/#comment-24182 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:31:48 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=8740#comment-24182 Climbed down as far as the engine last Friday. The gulley has filled in with more dirt from the rains. Afterwards found your article and forwarded to a friend to let him see pictures of the trail. Nice photos.

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