Four tourists including a newlywed couple, and a pilot from Maui died Thursday in a helicopter crash on Molokai.
County officials released the pilot's name Thursday night.
He's identified as Nathan Cline of Kihei.
The helicopter crashed just after noon Thursday and burst into flames.
The chopper belonged to Blue Hawaiian Helicopters, a company that does tours of all the major Hawaiian islands.
Maui police say the helicopter was on a one hour tour of West Maui and Molokai when it crashed into the mountain ridge in East Molokai, above Kilohana Elementary School.
"We did hear what a lot of us thought was thunder. Our health aide however was actually watching while all of this happened. She came down and said, 'Richard you got to know this, you got to know this - a helicopter just crashed into the mountain and you can see the smoke,'" said Richard Stevens, Kilohana Elementary School Principal.
The four passengers and pilot were pronounced dead at the scene.
Officials say one of the bodies was found under the wreckage.
"We just want to say that our hearts go out to the families of the passengers and of the pilot," said Rod Antone, Maui County Spokesperson.
The pilot is identified as Nathan Cline of Kihei.
Blue Hawaiian Helicopters lists on its website that Cline is 30 years old and has 4400 flight hours.
On the Company's Facebook page, a customer wrote last month: "We had the most fantastic journey on Maui with Nathan, our ultra terrific pilot!!!! Thank you for everything!!!"
And he replied: "My pleasure."
Officials are still trying to get in touch with the passengers' next of kin, so they're not releasing their names yet.
But they do say there was a newlywed couple from Pennsylvania, and there was also a man and woman from Ontario, Canada aboard the chopper.
Blue Hawaiian's owner says the EC 130 B4 chopper was built only last year by the company Eurocopter.
It's the same model as this helicopter.
The last time a Blue Hawaiian chopper crashed was back in July of 2000 on Maui.
Seven people were killed.
Federal investigators found that that crash in Iao Valley was due to pilot error.
And investigators with the NTSB are heading to Molokai to try to figure out what caused the helicopter to crash.
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