You need to look again. There is a window between the door and the tail. The door is still open. You can see the shadow from the open door is in front of the window.
I believe the pix are of the same plane. In the Lang photo, the upper portion of the open door (in the same position as in the Puentes video) appears as the line that is apparently above the rearmost window. The window seen in Jason's photo is the same distance rearward as the Puentes images, when compared to the top-fuselage antenna (?) that's just ahead of the tailfin's most-forward attachment area (game, set, match).
The N-number positioning appears the same for both the larger fuselage (same paint-colors) and tail version, "svcw's GA husband."
Getting rid of my other thoughts:
- An NTSB preliminary report should have info on passengers. I don't think an NTSB person would stand still for such information going missing.
- The engine manufacturer would be "all-over" getting a tear-down of the engine for liability and future Airworthiness Directive data. If the failure was genuine and not "helped along", there are people that can figure that out.
- That the plane was so badly, purposefully (?) mangled is an issue. Why? To hide a non-failure? To hide recovery negligence? I'm confident the plane could have been brought up using floatation devices without damage.
- With the plane going down so shortly after take-off, the pilot must have been familiar with the waters where he brought it down. It would be conceivable that, were he "in on bring it down", he could've placed it where there was one or more divers. Alternately, the pilot could've brought it down onto a pre-arranged GPS waypoint. Such a waypoint might still have been accessible from the recovery of an "un-mangled" Caravan GPS receiver.
- Other Jason's images, being top down into the clear blue sea, might have more-readily picked up on any diver silhouettes below the surface. - Why can't photo extractions from unpixelated, original video be shared as freely as the ones shared thus far?
- Has Ferdinand Puentes ever been a beneficiary of the Bishop Trust or Kamehameah School system?
- Interesting that the "spiraling into the ocean" GMA info-babe comes out with "Fernidand."
HF