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One of the passengers on that plane swam to shore.

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Flip Hollstein, a former Green Beret, who was also on the ditched Cessna Grand Caravan with Fuddy, apparently disregarded the pilot's command when said he told all the passengers they must don their lifejackets before they left the plane. Here's Flip outside the plane:

                           

Flip told fictitious, self-aggrandizing stories about his long distance swimming exploits, telling various media outlets he had to swim a mile or a mile and a half to shore, "guessing it took 90 minutes."

He actually stayed with the group, which were all together for about 45 minutes. In just three more minutes, he would swim toward shore. He then walked and waded the last 30 yards to dry land, just as any of the passengers could have. A Maui County Police observer officially logged Flip's arrival on shore 53 minutes after the ditching and 8 minutes after he first began swimming toward shore.