Updated at 4:21 p.m., Monday, March 12, 2007
Victim's ID in 2nd copter crash released
Advertiser Staff
Michael Gershon, 60, of Walnut Creek, Calif., was the passenger who died in yesterday's crash of an Inter-Island Helicopters' Hughes 500 in Ha'ena, Kaua'i, Kaua'i officials said today.Another passenger, Dania Hansen, 60, of Los Altos, Calif., was scheduled to undergo surgery today at Wilcox Memorial Hospital and had her condition upgraded from critical to serious condition today.
Two others who were aboard the Hughes 500 were Douglas Barton, 60, of Newport, N.H. and his wife, Judy, 51. They were both taken to Wilcox in critical condition after the crash and transferred to The Queen's Medical Center in critical condition.
Pilot Donald Torres, 30, of Hanapepe, was taken to Wilcox in fair condition and treated and released yesterday.
