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.
It would seem the NTSB relied on information from the USCG personnel to speak about the life jacket that was cut from Fuddy after she had been hoisted from the water.
Note, the first USCG swimmer that came upon Fuddy in the water left her there without even performing CPR. For the swimmer to let that happen according to protocols means he deemed her as obviously having been dead for some time. Three minutes later, a local Hawaii TV news report announced that an unidentified person had died in the event. (It would seem someone listening to radio communications passed info along from what the swimmer saw and did.)
A mere forty minutes thereafter, as a different USCG swimmer came upon Fuddy—still in the water—and hoisted her into his helo, at which time she was pronounced “CRITICAL”! (Neat trick!)
I don’t see evidence of what I would call “sloppiness” with regard to the central events or contemporaneous pronouncements about those events. Were you thinking of something particular?
The airport is an open to the air, without locked doors to gain access to the restrooms, for example.
As N687MA departed that day, at least two people on the airport watched it taxi away. The normal airport time of closure was 15 minutes or so thereafter, 3:30pm HST.