[WhiskeyX]

Fred, run the video and freeze the frame at 3:31/5:12. All three elements are present in one image frame. Puentes and the survivors are behind the field of view of the camera, the Lang aircraft is the white object in the sky above the white tower ashore and slightly to the left as it first approaches the Cessna with its tail visible sticking out of the sea there on the left when you draw a vertical line from the 3:31/5:12 upwards to the aircraft in the sea. Puentes tells us this is the first aircraft just arriving on the scene. Note how the Puentes camera and the survivors are nowhere close to the Cessna as Lang’s aircraft approaches.

[Fred Nerks]

...Puentes tells us this is the first aircraft just arriving on the scene. Note how the Puentes camera and the survivors are nowhere close to the Cessna as Lang’s aircraft approaches.

I'll try to answer that but then I'm finished. If you check the sequence I posted you'll see that it is possible the passengers in the stricken aircraft never saw Josh in the air when Josh took the first photograph. After he took that photograph which shows the aircraft in the water possibly only seconds after the belly-landing, he flew to the island to look for help. It was after he returned, that he took the second photograph which shows the aircraft in the water, partially submerged.

By that time, the passengers had drifted well away.

[Fred Nerks]

So it would seem that the stills show the same sequence as the video? Now isn’t that a surprise...the only thing that the passengers wouldn’t have known is that Puentes had a photograph of the aircraft almost immediately after the plane belly-landed...before he flew to the island looking for help.

[Fred Nerks]

correction: I WROTE - ...the only thing that the passengers wouldn’t have known is that Puentes had a photograph of the aircraft almost immediately after the plane belly-landed...

I MEANT TO WRITE 'JOSH HAD A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE AIRFCRAFT ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER IT BELLY LANDED... Sorry, it's getting to me, three threads on the same subject all running at once.

[Fred Nerks]

Actually, it looks like Josh had TWO images of the downed aircraft, must have been seconds after it belly-landed, you can still see the path it took across the top of the water. The passengers would not have known Josh was flying in the vicinity, they didn't see his aircraft until he returned from the island, by which time the plane was partly submerged and the occupants had drifted a considerable distance.