Hawaii Official Who Died After Crash Wore Infant Life Vest

AssociatedPress ^ | May 5, 2016, 8:31 PM ET | Jennifer Sinco Kelleher

[LucyT]

Hawaii's former health director who died after a plane she was traveling in crashed into the ocean was wearing an infant life vest and the pilot didn't give a safety briefing before takeoff, according to details in a National Transportation Safety Board report.

An autopsy determined Loretta Fuddy died of an irregular heartbeat from hyperventilating after she exited the plane, which landed in choppy water off the island of Molokai. The pilot and seven other passengers on the 2013 Makani Kai Air flight survived.

Pilot Clyde Kawasaki reported to the NTSB that he heard a loud bang, followed by an immediate loss of engine power soon after the single-engine Cessna took off from Molokai, headed for Honolulu.

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[rx]

The six minutes to shore may be generous.

Two days after the crash, a KITV4 News video reported: "Before beginning his mile-long swim back to shore, Hollstein noticed State Health Director Loretta Fuddy clinging to her deputy, Keith Yamamoto."

We can see Hollstein's "noticing" at the 10:13 mark in the video. A mere 4 minutes, 38 seconds later, he is seen trudging the last yards to shore, his life jacket more than a foot out of the water.
At the 10:13 mark, the videographer's lenses are pointed out to sea, with Holstein perhaps 20 yards away. Hollstein is seen a couple more times prior to 14:51, as the former Green marks passes by the videographer, some 10 yards to the west of him. In the last minute or so of Hollstein's swim, the videographer is pointing his lenses toward land.

Hollstein exited the water no far from the approach end of Runway 5.

On his FaceBook page, the videographer does undercut Hollstein's "mile-long swim" by using the phrase "we were about about a half mile out from land," which was of course untruthful as well, but since he was poised somewhat in the midst of Hollstein's path, what he said bears some semblance to the truth. Not to be completely out-done by Hollstein's incredible exaggeration, the videographer more fully wrote: We were about half mile out from land. In my thought process I told myself "I can make that swim". So, I said I'm going to try and head towards the shore. Another person was about to do the same trek to shore. Thats when we broke away from the group to make it to shore. I was constantly mumbling to myself that "I swam farther than this before, I can make it!".

For what it's worth, there was no mumbling to be heard on the videographer's recording as he progresses toward shore.

The salvor said the wreck was found over a 100-foot debris-field some 200-300 yards from shore. Where the plane occupants where as Hollstein began his trek was about 85 yards SW of the plane. A reasonably close estimate of the length of Hollstein's swim to shore: 200 yards.

What storytellers that pair make! With their 1/2 mile and mile times, they both could have rewritten the World and Olympic record books!

[butterdezillion]

How did Jake grow a ponytail between the time of that image and the time he sat on the wing?

When Jake’s head was shown on the aisle side of the neckrest he had a lot of dark, straight hair sticking out underneath his cap. Where did it all go in such a short time?

[Fred Nerks]

FOR THE RECORD: FROM THE ARCHIVES:

Plane crash passengers share their stories of survival

Posted: Dec 14, 2013 1:57 PM

Updated: Dec 14, 2013 2:16 PM

By Tim Sakahara - bio | email

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -
Some of the survivors of Wednesday’s fatal plane crash from Kalaupapa to Honolulu are speaking out about the frightening experience.

Flip Holstein says he doesn’t want to sound cavalier but he says fear never came into the picture for him. There was no time. He was focused on survival.

“I know we were going in the drink. We were way too far out to think about gliding back so I gave the seatbelt one more synch and hung on for the ride,” said Flip Holstein, Action Fire Sprinklers Corp. President, who was working in Kalaupapa and was returning to Oahu.

Hollstein is used to falling from the sky. He has skydived 12,000 times in his life. But he’s not used to going down in a plane crash.

“It was a bang, thud sound and then we’re in a glide. There was no smoke, no fire. It got quiet after that,” said Hollstein.

He says no one was panicking or screaming. The pilot skillfully glided down and hit the water the best way possible. Everyone made it out on their own. They stayed with the plane until it sank. After about 30 minutes Hollstein could barely see Molokai so he decided to swim for shore, about half a mile away.

“I was tired of hanging around, bobbing like a cork so I figured I’d head for the shoreline,” said Hollstein. “I could see where I needed to be going but after an hour and a half I started having second thoughts but I figured I’m not stopping now. I could tell I was getting closer. Then all the sudden I was there.”

At that time the rescuers were saving the other passengers. He says he was surprised to hear Health Director Loretta Fuddy had died because she was alive and alert when he started swimming for shore.

“I’m just sort of guessing she had a heart attack because she had inflation gear on. She was able to get out of the plane on her own,” said Hollstein.

“I was thinking that is it. I am going to die out here in the ocean,” said Rosa Key, crash survivor.

Rosa and Jacob Key were also on the plane and feared for the worst. But now they have a new perspective on life.

“It has opened my eyes and a reminder to have quality time with the ones you love,” said Rosa Key.

“I’m thinking that’s all. I’m dead. Now it’s like another chance at life. A second life,” said Jacob Key, crash survivor.

Hollstein and the Keys came out with just some scrapes and soreness but are otherwise completely fine. They thank all the people of Kalaupapa, the rescuers and pilots who spotted them.

[Fred Nerks]

JACOB AND ROSA KEYS

[Fred Nerks]

FOR THE RECORD:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Election

The article link posted with the headline doesn’t seem to bring up the actual article.

The story may be read here:

http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/state-wire/hawaii-official-who-died-after-crash-wore-infant-life-vest

[butterdezillion]

Rosa Key was standing in the water, just like Yamamoto was. She was so “scared” that she alternated between having her lifejacket inflated (for show) and uninflated (for comfort).

Flip Hollstein’s hour and a half (when he started having doubts, according to the article you posted) turns out to be six minutes at most according to Puentes’ video, as shown by rx .

What an absolute load of crock these people are all serving up in lockstep.

[rx]

It's really interesting to survey all the falsehoods in which these plane occupants engage. At 9:27 in the video, 46 seconds before Hollstein finally departs the group (at 10:13) to head for shore, the videographer, who is some 20 yards from Hollstein, records the following image:

The recorded scene at that time shows that about which Hollstein falsely waxed poetic. "After about 30 minutes Hollstein could barely see Molokai so he decided to swim for shore, about half a mile away." The upper left picture of post #241 shows Hollstein's position relative the videographer, bearing approximately 3-4-0. The plane was some 260 yards from shore and about 85 yards to the northeast of the videographer.

The pattern of deception and lies is very strong with this group! Their collusion in falsehoods--sometimes using the very same, false words--only furthers the proof of their coordinated deceptions.

[rx]

Oops, that reference to post #241 should be to post #281.

[WildHighlander57]

[WildHighlander57]

[WildHighlander57]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3428362/posts?page=289#289

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3428362/posts?page=290#290

[LucyT]

Ping.

Check out # 291 .

Thanks, WildHighlander57.

[Fred Nerks]

4 Zoltan wrote:That’s the back of Jake Key’s head. The bright sunlight changes the color to look reddish to the camera. Watch the video just before the left to right shift by Puente. You can see the sunlight move up the cabin washing out the colors. Not a mannequin.

Then that must be the sequence posted by WH57, right?

[WildHighlander57]

Hmmm, where’s the dummy?

[Fred Nerks]

Where’s the dummy?

I’m a dummy. How would I know? I can’t see any dummy on the aircraft.

[butterdezillion]

Did Jake grow a ponytail in five minutes? Did he instantly shift his butt over to the other side of the seat? Did his hat suddenly become longer so it covered more of his hair?

[WildHighlander57]

From that sequence I posted, it only shows one head going left to right, not two next to one another.

I see no dummy in that sequence.

Only one person.

In the beginning, Jacobs head and arm move, and as the plane starts to tilt, Rosa reaches over to him.

She would not reach for an inanimate object on the outside aisle of the seat.

And besides, the sequence does not show two heads sticking up over the back of the seat; no room for two bodies/heads.

Ref your post #244 you mention mannikin

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3428362/posts?page=244#244

“...That mannequin was sitting straight-up on the outside-most side of the seat while Jake sat straight up on the interior-most side of the seat...”

[rx]

That's quite a brand of logic you've got there, "I don't see it, ergo it can't be true!"

Your method has certainly flooded our screens and computers' bandwidth, not to mention FR's. All for what you can't see?!   Well then, feast your eyes on what your eyes can behold, if you will but see!

Since you seem to be a visually-oriented person, try the following graphic on for size:

Start with 11: Notice how JK and Dolliana stick out copiously from both sides of the seat. From the image sticking out on the left (with no motion) to the image on the right (again, with no detectable motion) is 19 frames in a 30fps video, that is, just over half a second. If JK had done that, his timing would have had to been 100% in sync with FP's quick camera motion, which would have had to have been FAR more than a coincidence.

Back to picture 1. JK is seen to the left of the headrest . My estimate is that where his head would be extends to the right, into no more than 25% of the headrest. Yet, off to the far right, we already see Dolliana's red/yellow (as you say, because of the light) peeking out to the right under the headrest. Its apparent edge against the light is not vertical as it would be if it were the adjoining edge of the window and cabin; it's angled left-to-right downward. The two different persons' images are too far distant from one another to both be JK at the same time!

2. We note the manufacturing ridge artifact commonality with BB's requested helmet and neck brace. The arrows goes to picture 5 to show the same ridge line on Dolliana's helmet.

3. Note how another fleeting frame of what is clearly Dolliana's hair contains the same color as in picture 1 above.

4. JK's cap doesnt have the extended vertical component of Dolliana's at its lower edge, thus, it's not the same.

5. Dolliana's helmet shows no ponytail that we know JK had.

6. "The hand" floats purposelessly through several frame. It physically cannot belong to anyone whose feet are on the floor. None of the three (JK, RK, FP) that have any chance of having a part of their body in that space could physically have their right hand there. It dangles from above! It's well manicured and pudgy, just as Ms Fuddy's was, two rows forward. Throughout this section, FP strangely keeps his camera's from rising from more than 30degrees beyond straight down. It's as if he studiously and in pre-planned fashion didn't want the camera lenses to see anything higher than that. Showing everybody in a full view of the commotion of the cabin at least for a moment or two would certainly have been any videographer's more natural "inclination."

7. Jake is the first to exit the craft, but instead of walking down the ladder ("into a swimming pool," as FH would later say), he strangely jumps the white railing on the left and swims over to hug the starboard side of the fuselage. It's as if he's trying to hide something from the camera's lenses.

8. Only one frame catches Jake poised there, but there's Dolliana, peeking over Jake's right shoulder! Ironically, if Jake had worn his life jacket out of the plane as the pilot reportedly had instructed all the passengers, such a life jacket would have hidden Dolliana's forehead, eyebrow and red hair entirely. There's really nothing else it could be. There wasn't anything reddish like that that "just coincidentally" was floating around in the water!

9. Having handed off Dolliana to the others that were at the crash site, Jake swims without a life jacket to the rear of the airplane, where supposedly there's nothing to hold onto. But as is usual throughout the aftermath, Jake keeps his peripheral vision if not his direct eyesight trained onto the videographer and his cameras.

10. Jake will often interpose himself between the cameras' lenses and "things happening" with Ms Fuddy in a way that simply could not have happened in random fashion. Seeing how the climax of the exercise is that Ms Fuddy will be replaced by a diver (see post #247 for details), Jake's work as a visual obstruction to what goes on around Ms Fuddy is yet another dead give-away of the planned nature of the entire exercise.

In sum, the many markers of pre-planning that the passengers' preparations, choices and actions betray should convince even the most skeptical and working-cross-purposes DU-fan that lurks around here of the nature of this intricately planned hoax.

[bgill]

2:22:30? That’s an hour before the plane took off.

[bgill]

Wonder if their kids’ student loans are paid in full and they’re all living in nice paid off homes like those in Newtown?