Posted on 01/10/2014 1:52:43 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty
A month after a small plane crash in Hawaii, a surviving passenger shows GoPro footage and even a selfie taken during the ordeal.
Would you have done the same? Ferdinand Puentes was one of nine passengers in a 2002 Cessna Grand Caravan which suddenly suffered engine failure off Kalaupapa, Molokai in Hawaii last month. As he heard the engine fail and saw the plane heading for the water, one of his first instincts was to turn on his GoPro camera and film what might have been his own demise. As KHON-TV reports, Puentes knew the danger he was in, yet the decision to film as much as possible might perplex a few. He managed to get out of the plane alive and survived the crash. However, while he was floating on a seat cushion and wearing his life raft, he took a selfie.
Was the impulse to record just a natural reaction? After all, any bystander or news organization would have likely done the same thing. And these days everyone is using their phones to film just about everything they see. But wouldn't one's first instinct be to try to contact family and friends to say goodbye? Perhaps that did happen. The footage reflects a quite stunning lack of panic. The passengers behave in an orderly manner. There is no screaming or pushing. No one seems frantic at all. Loretta Fuddy, Hawaii's 65-year-old state director of health, died in the crash, despite managing to leave the plane. In watching Puentes talk to KHON-TV, though, it's evident that the footage brings back painful memories. Would everyone want to have such ready access to a reminder? Or would some prefer to forget? "You could have died," Puentes told KHON-TV. "There's so much variations that could have happened for the worse."
Precisely. Plus I found it odd that there was no panicking, screaming, etc. when the plane hit the water. Everyone put on their vests just like they were supposed to and left the plane in an orderly fashion. Like Stepford people. Just didn't seem *normal*.
Do either of you have experience as a life guard. One of the dangers of trying to rescue a person that in their panic the person being rescued pulls the person rescuing them down (holding on to them) and drowns their rescuER. It’s natural instinct to grab hold of anything close by
Did Yamamoto grab hold of fuddy and in his panic drown her? Seems like it would fit into his story if he not she was needing calming. Do we have a bit of transference going on here?
From Lucy T’s link to the youtube vid, Robin (the anchor that just came out as a lesbian) said the plane was “spiraling”. If that was the case, the plane I presume would have broken apart upon hitting the water resulting in severe injuries and the pilot would have been unable to GLIDE down.
It almost looked like a training exercise.
I didn’t hear one swear word either.
That’s an interesting theory. If Fuddy had drowned, however, the autopsy wd have discovered a definite cause of death. The claim is that the autopsy proved inconclusive. Either they are lying, or Fuddy did not die of drowning.
Twenty (20) pages of google results and I still can’t find the names of the other two passengers. Weird. Media is always all over these crashes to be first with the names so they can ask the relatives, “how they feel”.
I didn’t learn to swim until I took swimming lessons in my late twenties. Even today, I wouldn’t attempt to save anyone from drowning unless they are in the kiddy pool.
I had water rescue training with a “victim” that was fighting to stay afloat using the rescuer (me) to climb on.
Essentially you have to grab the person by the chin (they are on their back floating) and you tow them (by hand/arm) around their chin while rescuer kicks to shore. A person in a panic can drown the rescuer.
If they stayed that close to the plane there would be a bit of suction pulling them down as the plane sank
If they stayed that close to the plane there would be a bit of suction pulling them down as the plane sank
Robin’s a typical *news reader*. They like to use dramatic words. No way was that plane spiraling. And, yes it DID look like a training exercise.
Precisely. So their pulled under with the sinking of the plane of the assistant holds on to her causing her death. If not by drowning what? Strangulation?
Of they’re buying time hoping that the assistant messes up his rehearsed story. Piecing together the film and other survivors stories. Hoping to break him
They showed the entire video on ABC Nightline tonight, narrated by the photographer.
They said Fuddy was not calm, like the others. I don’t know how they came to that conclusion. Seems odd, since they say that people feel a sense of calmness from Subud.
LOL! Subud...let yourself go to that bright light and float away in perfect peace...and she did.
“Is there really ANY doubt that she was “silenced” because she knew too much about Hussein’s birth records?”
None at all, ashe was murdered.
There is no reason for anyone to die when a plane is ditched in the water, at least from the landing.
If you don’t grab the flailer by the chin (firmly, you go under them and turn them around by the legs first), they will drag you under trying to climb on you. The hope is once they are firmly in your grasp, floating on their back while you kick/stroke towing them in, they will calm down.
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It’s crazy what people say of the still pictures I plucked out of the video of the crash. They don’t know that I was video recording of the surroundings around me. They don’t know until they put themselves in my spot.
They all look pretty calm. I don't see a life jacket on her though. But it looks like they were still in the process of putting them on. The guy is getting his on.
You would think the reporters would point out who this woman is. I think it is very suspicious that she would die and no one is even curious what happened to her.
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