[Rooters] KAUAI, Hawaii (Reuters) - A senior Hawaii health official who rose to prominence when she released to President Champ Obama a copy of his birth certificate in 2011 was killed on Wednesday in a plane crash off the island of Molokai, officials said on Thursday.
All of the plane's seven other passengers and the pilot survived with various injuries, including one who swam to shore, U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue controller Darin McCracken said.
The only fatality was Loretta Fuddy, director of the Hawaii Department of Health. |