Even if there was a smoke or other signal on the water as an aiming point for a skilled pilot, I’d be amazed if a ditching plane came to rest within 1/4 mile of it. Or 1/2 mile. You just don’t practice ditching, and guesstimating where to hit the water (hard to judge from eyes plus altimeter due to no contrast) in order to coast ???? to a stop by the mark....
The plane would be lucky to come to rest within range of a score of waiting frogmen.
If Fuddy was murdered, the killer was on the plane. That’s the ONE sure way to put Fuddy next to her killer.
Thanks!
Does’t that Cessna have fixed landing gear which would act like a brake in the water on landing. I suspect that’s why the plane stopped so abruptly on hitting the water and why in the video the wings are seriously tweaked. It’s amazing it didn’t cartwheel or summersault.
I don’t believe she was murdered; these people considered her family. I don’t believe for a minute that they would have been in on something to truly harm her. But I do believe any and all of them would have done what they thought was necessary to save her from the big bad lawsuits coming down the pike, as well as what Sheriff Joe’s got coming up soon.
There could easily have been people aboard that plane who exited before the other passengers.
What I know is that there were people and things in the water that show up in the video that don’t fit the “official story”. And there’s stuff like a death being reported before anybody could have known there was a death, as well as the spokesman for the acting coroner claiming the day after the crash that Fuddy’s body had been retrieved from the wreckage... and a lot of other discrepancies.
I also know that the USCG is evading my requests for records (juggling the request between DC and HI and not answering my emails, not giving me phone numbers or names of people to call, etc) and the FAA says I can’t have any records because there is a law enforcement investigation underway (although the only investigation they referenced was an NTSB investigation which is not law enforcement.) Oh, and I was told by a worker at HDOT that he had to check with superiors as to whether he could email me an acknowledgement of my request because my email address is flagged for monitoring...
Also, there’s strange stuff with the plane records as well as the discrepancy of Kawasaki never having been listed as a Makani Kai pilot. We have no way of knowing whether they practiced ditching.
But certainly the easiest way to have everybody close enough would be to carry them on the plane. Puentes covering up his camera lens made a nice opportunity for the video to be edited during the cabin portion. Perfect for this scenario.