TransAir Flight 810

On July 2nd 2021, TransAir flight 810, a cargo Boeing 737-275C, took off from Honolulu airport en route to Kahului airport. At 1:42 a.m. local time, the flight was cleared to climb to 13 000 feet when the pilot reportedly informed ATC that they had lost an engine.

Flight Info
On July 2, 2021, at 1:33 a.m. HST, the aircraft began its take-off from Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL) just west of Honolulu on the southern coast of Oahu. At around 1:42 a.m., after air traffic control had cleared the flight to climb to 13,000 feet, the pilots informed Honolulu tower that the aircraft had "lost an engine." Publicly available flight data show the aircraft had only climbed to around 2,100 feet (640 meters).

The tower controller offered an immediate return for landing, but the crew instead requested "delay vectors" to "run a checklist". They continued on a southwest heading, away from the airport. At around 1:46 a.m, the crew reported that the second engine had overheated, and they could not maintain altitude.

After turning back toward Honolulu, the aircraft continued to lose altitude, so the controller issued a low-altitude alert and asked if they wanted to go to the closer Kalaeloa Airport instead. "We'd like the closest airport runway, please" was the last transmission recorded from the aircraft.The plane went down on the water of Māmala Bay about 2 miles (3 km) short of Kalaeloa Airport. This was only the fifth ditching of a jetliner in 60 years.