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KALAELOA, OAHU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A mentally unstable woman drove her car through the fence and into the runway area at Kalaeloa Airport last month, raising questions about security at the facility that is used by the Air Force, Air National Guard, Coast Guard and general aviation aircraft.
The incident happened shortly after 9 p.m. Aug. 7, according to spokespeople for the state Transportation and Public Safety departments.
Christine Keliikuli, 62, went up to the security desk at the Kalaeloa control tower building and asked if she could get onto the airfield to see the airplanes, said Caroline Sluyter, a spokeswoman for the Department of Transportation, whose airports division oversees operations and security there.
Sluyter said when a security guard denied Keliikuli access, she got into her white Jeep SUV and rammed her vehicle through the fence line, bending the pole that usually locks two tall chain-link gates in place.
The woman started driving in the direction of an Air Force C-17 jet that was taxiing on the Kalaeloa taxiway. A private security guard from the company Securitas got into his security truck and chased her down, using his truck to block her vehicle from driving toward the jet, according to Toni Schwartz, a spokeswoman for the state Public Safety Department, whose sheriffs division handled the arrest in the case.
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