December 14, 2008: HAWG Assesses Kauai Flood Damage

Image via WikipediaOn this date, the Hawaiian Wing of the Civil Air Patrol performed aerial assessment of large-scale flooding on Kauai.

Video of story available here from KITV-TV and an excerpt:

Raging flood waters washed away cars and disturbed piles of abandoned vehicles, Kauai residents say the water rose 6 to 7 feet.

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June 17, 2008: Hawaiian CAP Assists in Search for Missing Tour Plane

On this date in 2008, the Hawaiian Civil Air Patrol aircraft were assisting in the search of a Cessna 172 tour plane.

An excerpt from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin:

A U.S. Coast Guard C-130 plane continued searching through the night and into this morning for a missing single-engine tour plane that disappeared yesterday afternoon somewhere over or near the Big Island with a pilot and two passengers from Japan on board.

Five aircraft from the Coast Guard, Hawaii County, and Civil Air Patrol were searching along the southern shores and inland, county Civil Defense director Quince Mento said.

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March 9, 1957: Pioneering Korean-American Journalist, Early Advocate for Hawaiian CAP Wing Dies in Plane Crash

On this date in 1957, Sarah Park, a 29 year old Korean-American journalist for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, died in a plane crash while covering a tsunami warning off the Hawaiian cost.

Besides being a trail-blazing Korean-American and women journalist, Park learned to fly at an early age.  As a teenager in the early 1950s, she went to the mainland and lobbied CAP leaders to allow the American territory to have a CAP wing.

An excerpt from KoreAm:

Early on, young Sarah displayed a sense of courage and tenaciousness impressive even by today’s standards. According to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Park attended the Maret School in Washington, D.C., where she learned to fly a plane. She took her first solo flight at age 16. That same year, Park started lobbying to get a Civil Air Patrol Unit for Hawaii. According to one article, “To make an impression (and hide her age) she, in her own words, ‘put on a slinky black dress, lipstick and a floppy hat’ and went to New York City to see the top C.A.P. general and ask for a Hawaii unit.” The general told her Hawaii wasn’t eligible because it wasn’t a state. So, “As Brigadier General Earle Johnson told it later: ‘She practically camped on General Spaatz’s desk until he told someone to see about changing the rules to admit Hawaii.’”

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