If someone appears to have come to death in the circumstances of 841-3 then the coroner who has been notified of the death has authority to order an autopsy.
It may turn out that the person DIDN’T come to death under those circumstances (which is what is necessary for HRS 841-3 to not be in effect, as the MPD Police Chief said) - which would be the only case I can think of where an autopsy could be ordered under the authority of 841-14 even though the requirements of 841-3 were not met and thus the investigation mandated in HRS 841-3 were not required. Which is precisely what the MPD documents and UIPA responses claim.
So - for these documents and claims to make any sense - the Maui County coroner ordered an autopsy because it APPEARED that someone had died under the circumstances of HRS 841-3 but did not, in fact, die under those circumstances.
Which brings us back to the question of what changed their mind. They knew at the time they gave a non-outside-assistance case number (claiming a death under their jurisdiction) that this was a death in Maui County waters after a water landing by the plane Fuddy was in, that NTSB would be investigating the water landing itself, and that the anonymous EMS worker (who was probably Scotty Schafer, Fuddy’s brother-in-law, unless it was the other on-duty EMS worker whose name is illegible) CLAIMED Fuddy had been pronounced dead by Dr. Harle in an unattended death. Everything APPEARED to fit HRS 841-3.
What changed by an hour later?
“What changed by an hour later?”
the realization she died in flight.