ok, gotcha, and they all took their time...and arrived about an hour later?
The crew of a training exercise released smoke flares in the water...
So it was the news reports that were out of synch with what happened?
According to http://mauitvnews.com/blog/tag/molokai-plane-crash/ :
“Coast Guard watchstanders at the Joint Rescue Coordination Center received report of a plane crash with nine passengers aboard at 3:27 p.m. Wednesday.
The Coast Guard launched two MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrews and one HC-130 Hercules airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point on Oahu. Coast Guard Cutters Ahi and Galveston Island, home-ported in Honolulu, and two 45-foot Response-Boat Medium crews from Station Maui were also dispatched to the scene.
Rescue swimmers from the Dolphin helicopters were deployed, rescuing three passengers in the water. Maui Fire Rescue rescued additional passengers.
Three people were transported by Dolphin helicopter crews to Honolulu for emergency medical services. Two people were transported by a Makani Kai company plane to Honolulu and the rest of the passengers remained on Molokai....
Today, Maui mayor Alan Arakawa extended his condolences to the victim’s family, including her sister, who is a part of the Maui County family and works as a Maui Police Department Chaplain on Molokai. “
Station Maui is on the south side of Maui, according to http://www.uscg.mil/d14/staMaui/Default.asp . Max speed for a Response Boat Medium is 42.5 knots, or 48.9 miles/hour. So it might have just taken the boats that long to get there. Helicopters and plane from Oahu, I don’t know. Seemed like Kawasaki thought it would take 1/2 hour, not an hour.
Sounds like Fuddy’s sister works directly with the Police Chief spokesman who claimed the day after the crash that Fuddy’s body was retrieved from the wreckage.