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I wonder how long the NTSB usually takes to put incidents on their list, or to come up with a cause for crashes. They still don’t have anything for the Cessna engine failure off Maui on Oct 20, 2013.

The wheels of bureaucracy grind ever so slowly...by the time they start rolling, it’s all been forgotten I guess. Stupidity and corruption are the fertilizers of conspiracy theories. Planes drop out of the sky and the paper-work is still lying on someone’s desk.
Public servants die of old age before anyone thinks to ask any questions, or like Fuddy, breathe their last in a choppy sea waiting for rescue.
I would like to see Verna Lee asked how was that bc application submitted for her signature. Did it arrive from the hospital, or was it walked in off the street?
Would she remember?
Would she tell us?
Whose bc did she really sign on that 8th of August, the same day Virginia’s death announcement appeared...

And how old is she now?

Unsolicited ping to a likely unrelated story.

Autopsy ordered for scuba diver

An autopsy was ordered for a Californian scuba diver who died on Thurs evening, 12/12 off the coast of Kona (west side of the large island, not the same island where Fuddy's plane went down). He was 55 and may have simply been a vacationer who wasn't physically fit or who had a freak accident, etc. I dare not post his name in this thread given how likely it is that there's no connection at all.

I'm on my lunch and can't take the time to look up more details, so I can only assume there's no connection, but if I were investigating all things related to the Fuddy death, I might have a cursory, preliminary interest in a scuba diver from out of state who became unresponsive and died of then unknown causes somewhere in the region a day later. Probably just a single quick google search will provide enough details to show this is an obviously unrelated incident.

[Flotsam_Jetsome, I couldn't resist pinging you because your interest in the birth certificate and because the meaning of your username intersect so nicely with trying to figure out the mystery of Fuddy in "the drink." :-) ]