I think the problem is that these so called ‘journalists’ make thing up on the fly...(pun?) She wasn’t found in the fuselage...she was wearing the lifejacket that her assistant had helped her put on, and they were floating in the water while he held her hand.
I think she ‘let go’ when she lost consciousness. She was 65 years old. The younger, more fit survived, one swam a long way to shore. Yamamoto (no relation to the planner of the attack on Pearl Harbour, lol) was wearing shorts and a T shirt...I bet she was weighed down by the usual feminine apparel, hard to swim in a skirt and long sleeves while in a panic I imagine.
She should have been retired, sitting on her patio, drinking pine-apple juice. Now, they will make her a saint, and she can’t be forced to tell what she knows - ever.
Osama-bama has the luck of the irish, the witnesses just go pop like bubbles in the sun.
If she was floating in the water with her lifejacket on they’re going to have to say she died of a heart attack. And the stories about them thinking everybody was fine makes no sense with the story of the deputy director, because he said she let go and there was no response from her so he knew from before any rescuers arrived that she was not OK.
But is it possible that they were holding hands in life jackets while they were still within the body of the plane and while it was filling with water? Trying to reconcile the deputy’s account with 1) claim of finding Fuddy within the fuselage 2) the oddity of Fuddy being out of the plane on the open surface of the water, in a life jacket and still not surviving.
Though I definitely agree with your point about imaginative reporters assuming facts that are not the case.