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Of course she’ll be cremated, and they will have a tearjerk ceremony at the edge of the cliff where a bucket of sand will be tossed into the wind...it will be a perfect opportunity to bring up how Stanley Ann Dunham and Madelyn and Fuddy Duddy are now together in aloha heaven. They won’t be able to resist! The white anthropolgist madonna from Kansas and her sainted mother who brought up the potus, now joined for eternity with the woman who saw his birth certificate with her own eyes...

And to close that weird circle, the plane that allegedly crashed killing Fuddy was a Cessna, made by a company headquartered in Wichita, the city where Madelyn gave birth to Stanley Ann back in 1942.

“We had a bang, ya know, while the thing climbed up, make a turn and bang, that’s it,” said Jacob Key. “After that the beeping from all the machine came up then after a few seconds, the beeping was gone and the plane is going down.”

That’s when the couple says everything became a big blur.

“I was shocked. It was a lot of thoughts that go through,” said Rosa Key. “It was like a slow motion of everything. The plane slowly going down.”

The Keys said after the plane hit the water, everyone evacuated and put on life jackets in the water.

HONOLULU (AP) — When the lone engine of a small commercial plane failed, the nine people on board stayed calm as the aircraft glided toward the ocean and made a remarkably smooth belly landing, a survivor recounted Friday.

C. Phillip Hollstein Jr., a 70-year-old Kailua man, swam a half-mile in 6-foot waves to a rugged shoreline after the crash, which killed state health Director Loretta Fuddy. The others on board suffered only minor injuries.

Hollstein said the pilot, Clyde Kawasaki, expertly maneuvered the plane after the engine failed, avoiding what could have been a catastrophic impact on the water.

“He did everything right,” Hollstein said. “He set it up for the best crash-landing you could do.”

The engine on Makani Kai Air’s 2002 Cessna Grand Caravan turboprop cut out less than a minute after takeoff from the island of Molokai on Wednesday afternoon, just as the plane was making a turn toward its destination of Honolulu, Hollstein said.

There was a “muffled bang,” he said, and “then we were a glider.”

“Everyone was real quiet. We hit (the water), and it was all about getting the belts off,” Hollstein said. People put on life jackets and remained in the plane until it started sinking, he said.

“There wasn’t panic or anything. It was very orderly. It wasn’t like any of the movies or the TV shows,” Hollstein said.

When Hollstein saw that everyone was out of the plane, bobbing in the water and seemingly without any major injuries, he swam for shore, guessing it took 90 minutes.

http://www.newstimes.com/news/us/article/Hawaii-survivor-Plane-lost-power-then-glided-5060760.php