“Ok, so you work it out how he managed to supply photographs of the downed aircraft so close in time to its landing on the water that the path it took still shows.”
What you are misinterpreting as the wake from the aircraft touching down on the sea isn’t what you think it is. The aircraft engine probably failed in whole or part due to a turbine blade separation and/or failure. This chewed up the engine big time, which accounts for the pilot commenting on his controls alerting him to multiple system failures and an engine fire warning. This kind of engine failure is inevitably going to result in copious amounts of engine oil and aviation fuel leakage from the damaged engine.
What you have misinterpreted as a water wake immediately after touchdown is instead the oil and aviation fuel spill from the wrecked engine being carried away from the floating airccraft by the sea currents for a good fraction of an hour. If you look carefully, you can see the spilled oil and aviation gas floating on the sea is roughly shaped like a large V. This would occur because the aircraft ditched over on the left branch of the V where there is a much larger patch of the spills. then the floating aircraft drifted and trailed behind it a smaller trail of spilled oil and aviation gas. so these spills provide further confirmation the aircraft had been drifting and trailing these spills behind it for quite some time before the image recorded it.
Suppose everything connected with Lang is untrue. Does it change anything vis-a-vis Fuddy?
This kind of engine failure is inevitably going to result in copious amounts of engine oil and aviation fuel leakage from the damaged engine.
What you have misinterpreted as a water wake immediately after touchdown is instead the oil and aviation fuel spill from the wrecked engine being carried away from the floating airccraft by the sea currents for a good fraction of an hour.
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Seems, then, that the passengers would have encountered this noxious stuff and at least mentioned it, or some rescuer would have. Wouldn’t all of them, having floated in inflammable and toxic substances, have to be taken to the hospital to be checked out? I’m just curious. Yamamoto was hanging out at the “care home” with the priest, where Fuddy’s body was taken.