Officer Bryant B. Bayne

Assignment: Specialized Services Division,
Task group

Date of Birth: March 30, 1964

Appointment Date: March 11, 1985

End of Watch: July 21, 1995

On July 21, 1995 a collaborative search involving the Honolulu Fire Department and Honolulu Police Department was underway in the Sacred Falls Valley area searching for a missing hiker.

Officers Tate Kahakai and Bryant Bayne were part of the search team to be transported in a suspension basket by a Honolulu Fire Department helicopter into the valley.

While in transport near the search site the aircraft lost control and crashed into a steep slope.

Both Officers Kahakai and Bayne and HFD helicopter pilot Peter Crown were killed in the crash.