In a chilling video, a plane is seen crashing into a building in Hawaii during a training flight – with a pilot telling the control tower: “We’re out of control here.”

The two people on board died when the plane crashed into a building near Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, Hawaii News Now reported.

Video taken from a highway showed the plane flying low before disappearing from sight and then exploding in a ball of flames.

Audio recordings showed the control tower desperately trying to guide the pilot, saying, “Okay, Kamaka 689, if you can land, if you can balance it, that’s fine.” Any runway, any place you work can.”

But the pilot’s last words were: “We’re out of control here.”

Officials have not publicly identified the victims. However, sources close to the family told Hawaii News Now that one of the victims was pilot-in-training Hiram Defries.

The plane crashed into a vacant state-owned building that was slated for demolition in what Honolulu Fire Department Chief Sheldon Hao called a “best-case scenario.”

Officials also praised the pilot for avoiding populated areas.

“This could have been much, much worse, but the situation was limited to the two who were piloting the aircraft… As far as we know, the pilot made many adjustments to minimize the collisions,” said the director of the Hawaii Department of Transportation Ed Sniffen.

Numerous witnesses heard a loud boom and saw large, dark clouds of smoke rising from the crash.

“I was sitting at my desk and suddenly I saw a small plane flying past my seventh floor office window,” Nancy Timco told the outlet. “I said, ‘Oh, it’s really, really low,’ and it started heading back towards the airport and then I heard a loud bang.”

Another witness told the outlet: “I was just working and all of a sudden there was a loud, big bang and when I looked out there was just a bunch of damn smoke and my colleagues told me there was a plane right next to our building crashed.” ”

The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into the accident.