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The first plane to arrive on the crash scene was a fixed-wing, two-seater, a 1977 Grumman Cheetah aircraft. The pilot’s name was Josh Lang and he had with him his girlfriend, Jaimee Thomson, who is shown on the right, standing in that Grumman. The plane is registered to an LLC for which Joshu Lang is the registered agent. Lang and Thomson took video and photographs for the first hour of the crash scene until the USCG command C130 arrived on-scene and dismissed them. Circling the plane’s occupants overhead for much of that time, Josh later would tell the assembled media at the Makani Kai offices that he wanted to “give [the ditched plane’s occupants] hope.”

Lang said, “It was pure luck that we were there when we were.”

As the large panel in the upper left features, Josh Lang is actually one of the hottest helicopter-flying commodities and personalities west of Hollywood. For years, he’s flown onscreen for CBS’s Hawaii Five-O and ABC’s LOST TV series programs.

What are the odds?

In all coincidence, for years, Makani Kai has been the exclusive supplier of helicopters to both LOST and Hawaii series!

The three pilots, Josh Lang, Clyde Kawasaki (Director of Operations), and Richard Schuman (owner) would have the world believe “it was pure luck,” but in context, anyone can plainly see it wasn’t. Lang’s dressed-down arrival with a girlfriend and a slow, clunky Grumman fixed-wing aircraft that Lang called “Dusty Crop-hopper” on Facebook, coincidently all set to take pictures and video that would protect Schuman’s interests, was staged for an audience in the film and TV traditions Schuman and Lang know so well.

Both Lang and Schuman are very experienced with stunts, actors and made-for-TV scenes. They tried to keep their true relationship hidden behind the scenes in the Makani Kai incident, which would keep Lang’s misinformation from being deemed suspect. Plus, Lang’s pictures and video--as yet mostly undisclosed--would insure Schuman wasn’t short-changed in compensation for his efforts on behalf of the scenario’s planners.

Thus for years, Schuman and Kawasaki have been Lang's superiors. But that must boil down to Josh "just happened to be there at the right place at the right time!"

Would this at all suggest a plan for any of this would have been developed beforehand? No, of course not!

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The videographer shows himself to be in charge of passenger activity far more effectively than the pilot. Despite claimed high winds, strong currents and white caps, he was at several junctures able to compose his video’s participants in scenes that included all of them in the cameras’ field of view, even 45 minutes apart. =A= The videographer claimed that within a minute of releasing the plane, the current of the ocean caused passengers to drift quickly away from the crash site, but the video shows at least three plane occupants treaded water or stood on the ocean floor for over fifteen minutes, apparently without moving away from the crash site at all! That’s most curious, since the aircraft, ostensibly floating in the open ocean just as the occupants claimed for themselves, essentially hadn’t moved, even two hours post-ditching.

As the videographer reaches a spot where he can stand shortly before being extracted from the water (upper right =L=), he kicks up his heels in the video, showing, contrary to his later claims: 1) his laces had not loosened at all. 2) his work boots’ and clothing’s weight didn’t overcome the buoyancy of his life jacket, even with only one of his lifejacket’s two chambers filled with air. and 3) he’s not particularly exhausted, or as he would later say, “just trying to survive”

On the ABC video, Puentes shows a GoPro stick with a single camera, but there is proof there were two cameras on the staff and the picture lower left, 2nd from left, shows a staff that casts a decidedly different shadow than the one he’s holding. In the lower right picture, note the straps and flotation gear for his camera equipment that Puentes coincidentally had with him at his seat for the short trip!

So despite his mis-directions, exaggerations, and falsehoods, none of this is to suggest anything was pre-planned. No, of course not!