Thanks for that...so the image credited to Josh that shows an aircraft wing on the right, can’t be the photograph he took from the helicopter. That might have some effect on the timing. The closer image of the aircraft in the water was taken by some other aircraft sometime later, after the striken aircraft was already partly submerged and the passengers had drifted away from it.
Wouldn’t be the first time someone in a newspaper office misidentified the source of an image.
It doesn’t even really matter who took the photo. I just don’t see any way that could be the same event. See my last post, explaining that for this aerial photo to be taken after the people got away from the plane, the tail would have had to get very, very heavy - enough to lift the rest of the plane up even behind its center of gravity - so that the 2 windows between the wing and the door came up out of the water, having already been submerged according to Puentes’ image.
Just because Josh Lang is a copter pilot doesn't mean he and his gf were in one when they found the wreck. In fact, this account has them landing at Moloka'i after spotting the wreck, finding no one around, getting back in their airplane and returning to the scene in order to provide encouragement to the passengers and make sure the Navy helicopter would have no trouble finding them.