An unidentified person looks over the crash site in Ha'ena, Kaua'i. The accident left one person dead and four injured, three of them critically. AP Photo/Garden Island, Sheadon Ringor   Unidentified people tend to victims of the helicopter crash. AP Photo/Garden Island, Sheadon Ringor   Kaua'i resident Doug Manning said he looked out his window to see the tour helicopter Doug Manning • Special to The Advertiser

A man and woman who were aboard the Hughes 500 helicopter that crashed in Ha'ena on Kaua'i's North Shore shortly after 1 p.m. yesterday were flown to The Queen's Medical Center on O'ahu Sunday evening.

Another woman who survived the crash remains at Wilcox Hospital and is scheduled for surgery today, the fire department said. She is in serious condition.

One of the passengers died in the crash.

Pilot Donald Torres, 30, was about midway through his scheduled 50- to 55-minute tour with four passengers on board when he heard a "loud bang" before crashing on Kaua'i's North Shore yesterday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

It appears that the pilot tried to land the helicopter in the only vacant space for miles — a field at the YMCA's Camp Naue in Ha'ena. The area around the crash site site is surrounded by residential homes and foliage — from the beach to Kuhio Highway.

It was the second fatal crash of a Kaua'i tour helicopter in a 70-hour period.