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The wreckage of the plane that went down off Molokai is now on land.

Although it’s barely recognizable it still holds the key to finding what went wrong.

The Cessna airplane crashed last Wednesday.

“A layman person, if he looked at it right now and he didn’t know it was an airplane. He wouldn’t know it was an airplane. It doesn’t resemble anything towards an airplane,” Makani Kai Air President Richard Schuman said.

“The damage was done by the ocean, not by the impact, not by the crash. It was actually in one piece when we saw it the first time, which was last week Friday,” Sea Engineering  President Patrick Ross said.

All nine people on board made it off the plane but State Health Director Loretta Fuddy died before rescuers puller her from the sea.

Sea Engineering is responsible for bringing the plane up from the ocean.

“Challenging part was waiting for the window, the weather window. We wanted to go last Saturday but the surf was huge and we weren’t able to,” Ross shared.

The big winter surf made for a really small salvage window.

“Yesterday was the only day. The surf was projected to come back up today. And it was too big the day before. So we had that one day weather window,” noted Ross.

According to Ross the plane was about two to three hundred yards offshore in about 65-to-70 feet of water.

He said the plane was pretty broken up when they got there.

“We had the wings and the fuselage, the wings were separate, the engine was separate, from rolling on the rocks,” Ross shared.

That engine is a key piece of evidence.

“The pilot did report that he had a loss of power, and the key then is to look at the engine. And so it’s amazing how much information we’ll be able to get from disassembling this engine,” National Transportation Safety Board crash investigator Jim Struhsaker said.

Now work to get the engine back to the manufacturer.

“One of the concerns right now is preservation. And so what we will be doing is rinsing it off with fresh water. Trying to flush the inside as best we can. We’ll do a minimum of mechanical interference,” Struhsaker said.

The National Transportation Safety Board will work with the manufacturer to figure out what caused the engine to fail.