Thanks for that link. Much to digest - first being that Kawasaki is not listed as a pilot on the company’s website (at http://www.makanikai.com/staff.html ), even though the site was updated since Oct 5th of this year (see https://web.archive.org/web/20131005175735/http://makanikai.com/staff.html ) The article said he has been flying for this company for a year.
Other stuff stands out too, like the owner/CEO saying they initially believed everybody was OK, even though this article says that Fuddy was taken into a helicopter and couldn’t be revived by CPR.
The source for most of this article is a DOH employee who says that Fuddy was first taken to a “care home” where last rites were performed AND PEOPLE CAME TO PAY LAST RESPECTS - even though the DOH itself claimed until 8pm that both Yamamoto and Fuddy had survived.
I don’t know, WhiskeyX. As you pointed out elsewhere, assassinations are always rigged to have plausible deniability, and this one is no exception. Stories are always jumbled up at first, but some of the discrepancies in the story itself just seem odd. Like the report that it was thought everybody had survived until the rescue crew found Fuddy in the fuselage. It’s not that hard to count to nine. And if Fuddy was out of the plane then how did her body get back into the fuselage to be found by the rescuers? As I noted in another thread, there are 11 people accounted for in the official transport stories but only 9 people were on board.
“Stories are always jumbled up at first, but some of the discrepancies in the story itself just seem odd. Like the report that it was thought everybody had survived until the rescue crew found Fuddy in the fuselage.”
That story certainly doesn’t make any sense. I cannot completely discount the possibility the aircraft remained somewhat afloat until the rescuers arrived 30 minutes after the crash, but it seems extremely unlikely for a variety of reasons. Most aircraft fuselages quickly fill with seawater and sink to the seafloor, especiall in the moderate to strong wind conditions present that day. If the aircraft remained afloat, you would have thought the pilot would have kept everyone atop the floating wreckage as long as possible, rather than risk exposure, waves, currents, sharks, and drowning in the rough seas. That report just doesn’t make any sense.
“It’s not that hard to count to nine. And if Fuddy was out of the plane then how did her body get back into the fuselage to be found by the rescuers? As I noted in another thread, there are 11 people accounted for in the official transport stories but only 9 people were on board.”
Are there any other reports or photographs which positively say the aircraft fuselage remained afloat long eough for the rescuers to board it?