There were three women, Fuddy, Rosa Key and an unnamed 75 year old woman...the top image appears to show Fuddy at the door, with Yamamoto barely visible, trying to help her. Fuddy's life jacket appears to be fully inflated.
As is to be expected in the case of a ruse, the cited article and the NTSB information is laced with falsehoods and time-wasting misdirection.
A commuter airline pilot is generally supposed to give a full pre-flight briefing to all his or her passengers (14 CFR 135.117), but in this case, the NTSB notes the pilot didn’t give such a briefing. However, the rules also state, “This paragraph does not apply to a person who has been given a briefing before a previous leg of a flight in the same aircraft.” We’re supposed to waste time chattering back and forth until the pilot is ultimately exonerated because there’s some claimed evidence he did give a briefing to those same passengers on the flight leg from Honolulu to Kalaupapa in the morning of the same day. Those pre-flight briefing “procedures” are the ones to which the pilot is noted in the NTSB report and the ABC article to have later hearkened, saying the passengers “knew” those procedures because they’d earlier heard them on the earlier leg from the same pilot. Of course, a more complete pilot pre-flight briefing prior to the Kalaupapa-Honolulu leg may have kept anyone from inadvertently having to wear an infant life jacket. Or maybe not.
The Army Green Beret veteran that falsely claimed to have swum a mile or more to shore--guessing it took 90 minutes--put on an infant life jacket that somehow only his wife noticed well after the event to be an infant life jacket, not an adult PFD. The NTSB video seems to show his going to shore covered only approximately 200 yards, taking more like six minutes and beginning only some 47 minutes after ditching. In any event, he was logged to have been on shore only 53 minutes after ditching, so there was nowhere time for a 90-minute anything. One imagines an Army Green Beret knows as at least as much about disinformation as he knows the difference between six minutes and ninety minutes.
The videographer appears to have attempted to cover for the pilot when he said on his Facebook page and in a media report, that “The pilots [sic, emphasis added] on this aircraft did a stellar job … notifying the passengers of the location of their life vests,” yet, another passenger reported the life jackets were not where they were supposed to be. (Had they been moved since the morning flight?) The videographer certainly knew there was only one pilot on board, yet somehow choose that misdirection, probably in an attempt to distance himself from his acute familiarity with the larger plan, and that he had by that time met with their USCG swimmer/rescuers and the entire complement of passengers, save the Keys and Fuddy, in the Brileys’ hospital room, underscoring that he knew there had been only one pilot.
The ABC video affirms that there was “not a peep” in the post-bang glide down to the water, meaning the pilot’s recorded representation to the USCG of him telling the passengers to prepare for a water landing and to don their PFD’s (life jackets) was false.
In the NTSB Factual Report, it says Fuddy wore an infant life jacket that was only partially inflated, noting one if its CO2 cartridges was still full and had not discharged. Yet, there’s clear visual evidence (see image below) that Fuddy was wearing a fully-inflated adult life jacket outside of the plane and that both CO2 cartridges on it had discharged. So the NTSB report would seem to have at least two errors: 1) Fuddy actually did wear an adult life jacket shortly after exiting the plane, and 2) her life-jacket was fully inflated, unlike the NTSB's claim of her life jacket being only partially inflated, consistent with one of two CO2 cartridges being left undischarged, which would misdirect our lying eyes, despite clear evidence.
Well before the passenger that swam ashore first headed there, the videographer’s cameras’ lenses saw that Fuddy had on what seems to be partially inflated infant life jacket. One question would be, “Who swapped life jackets for Fuddy and why did no one report that she might have complained about such a swap?” As all the occupants generally stayed within 15 yards or so of one another well after they left the plane area, why would no one else have recalled that life-jacket exchange so as to mention it to the Maui County Police, FAA or NTSB? Why did the police ask no questions asked about circumstances of a Fuddy’s demise and why was no testimony taken about this change-out, which just might have induced stress, caused her to hyperventilate or fostered an arrhythmia?
And why did the Hawaii Department of Health Deputy Director not complain about things that happened "right under his nose?" (More on that later.) The shore-swimming passenger said, "Her assistant was really watching her… taking care of her."
If there was indeed an infant life jacket in the scenario that had an undischarged CO2 cartridge, where and by whom would it have been kept prior to the exchange? Whose dastardly plan—with malice aforethought! (I just wanted to type that.)—was it to keep it around, and put it on Ms Fuddy only later?
And will it surprise anyone that the evidence clearly points to not just one passenger, but multiple passengers swapping life jackets in the scenario? Just how likely could that have happened by chance? And it wasn't chance!
So, although the NTSB faults the pilot for not having given a more complete briefing, it seems the NTSB may be faulted for taking over two and a half calendar years—and what, some 20+ man-years?—to spend tax-payer money investigating, while still not coming to easily-found, correct conclusions? Time will tell and truth will out, showing the reasons for such incorrect conclusions had more to do with government corruption than difficult puzzles or the public’s “lying eyes.”
Of course, once the government NTSB gets it wrong, expect the house “news” organ, ABC, to do little more than re-arrange the talking points, as it’s clear the MSM has abandoned any charge of investigative journalism that in a bygone era was taught in journalism schools.
Could “they” have switched life jackets on Fuddy in the rescue helicopter or lied on the autopsy to cover up something? Or could it have been a sloppy mistake in a gov report or sloppy msm reporting that keeps getting repeated?
I still want to know why the airport closed early. Sure, it’s a podunk airport but you don’t close up before the last plane takes off, especially if that plane is carrying the honorary mayor who is holding the purse strings for the airport and the much needed improvements they were begging for at the fire station next door.
There were three women, Fuddy, Rosa Key and an unnamed 75 year old woman...the top image appears to show Fuddy at the door, with Yamamoto barely visible, trying to help her. Fuddy's life jacket appears to be fully inflated.
The first plane to arrive on the crash scene was a fixed-wing, two-seater, a 1977 Grumman Cheetah aircraft. The pilot’s name was Josh Lang and he had with him his girlfriend, Jaimee Thomson, who is shown on the right, standing in that Grumman. The plane is registered to an LLC for which Joshu Lang is the registered agent. Lang and Thomson took video and photographs for the first hour of the crash scene until the USCG command C130 arrived on-scene and dismissed them. Circling the plane’s occupants overhead for much of that time, Josh later would tell the assembled media at the Makani Kai offices that he wanted to “give [the ditched plane’s occupants] hope.”
Lang said, “It was pure luck that we were there when we were.”
As the large panel in the upper left features, Josh Lang is actually one of the hottest helicopter-flying commodities and personalities west of Hollywood. For years, he’s flown onscreen for CBS’s Hawaii Five-O and ABC’s LOST TV series programs. 
What are the odds?
In all coincidence, for years, Makani Kai has been the exclusive supplier of helicopters to both LOST and Hawaii series!
The three pilots, Josh Lang, Clyde Kawasaki (Director of Operations), and Richard Schuman (owner) would have the world believe “it was pure luck,” but in context, anyone can plainly see it wasn’t. Lang’s dressed-down arrival with a girlfriend and a slow, clunky Grumman fixed-wing aircraft that Lang called “Dusty Crop-hopper” on Facebook, coincidently all set to take pictures and video that would protect Schuman’s interests, was staged for an audience in the film and TV traditions Schuman and Lang know so well.
Both Lang and Schuman are very experienced with stunts, actors and made-for-TV scenes. They tried to keep their true relationship hidden behind the scenes in the Makani Kai incident, which would keep Lang’s misinformation from being deemed suspect. Plus, Lang’s pictures and video--as yet mostly undisclosed--would insure Schuman wasn’t short-changed in compensation for his efforts on behalf of the scenario’s planners.
Thus for years, Schuman and Kawasaki have been Lang's superiors. But that must boil down to Josh "just happened to be there at the right place at the right time!"
Would this at all suggest a plan for any of this would have been developed beforehand? No, of course not!
Like I said, he has the Devil’s luck. Whatever happened, Fuddy, a true believer in the Subud cult with Obama’s mama, may have thought she was doing something truly existential.
I’m sure now, too late, she realizes she was just a tool, dispensable, expendable, how ever it happened.