ok...a lot of the pressers early on were wrong. Look at how far they drove, and the facts show a different story.
Kati said they stopped to ride the storm about because she didn't think they would have enough gas to get back to where they came. I am sure in those conditions with spinning the tires, etc...that they were burning more gas than they wanted to.
I don't think they left on their trip without a reasonable amount of gas.
This was a press conference after Mr. Kim was found dead. There were errors in judgment on all sides here. That's what happens when human beings are involved.The search and resuce folks were quite heroic, and it does no good to tear down their efforts.
I hear the news reports for a week before they found Mrs. Kim and the girls. Searches were primarily based on what the Kims had said their route was going to be. First SAR attempted to determine if they had met misfortune on that route. Then they spread out to cover other ground. They were limited by time, people and information.