nearly crashing three years ago, and the skydivers right there scrambling to escape in midair. the images raising questions tonight about the plane s safety record. abc s will carr is in oahu. reporter: tonight, with victims family members watching from the ground in horror, witnesses say just before that skydiving plane crashed, they saw the twin engine, packed with 11 people, flip sideways and then nosedive into the ground. steve tickmeyer raced to the scene. we saw a big explosion and then just covered in black smoke. reporter: you can see there s not much left of the plane. the ground and the fence are charred and you really get the sense of just how hot it was burning right after the crash. this video shows the same plane in 2016. the pilot on that flight lost control. the plane then spiraled into a dangerous spin. get out! out, out! reporter: before the pilot could recover, pieces of the plane flew off in midair. i saw something fall down from the plane, like a shee