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."
It’s chilling that the next person people that bright people predicted would be knocked off for knowing the truth habout his birth certificate does wind up quickly dead. A lot of people have been paying attention and filing in their minds the record of all the sudden deaths of people who know more about Obama than Obama and his handlers want the public to know. The grandma in Hawaii was the first quick death right before the 2008 election. Obama and Michelle traveled to Hawaii as talk of the inconsistencies of his background were emerging. Google “Nahumlist” to see where someone has organized a list of links of highly suspicious deaths of people in Obama’s immediate radius, most of young people otherwise in the peak of health.
let me put my tinfoil hat on and throw some fuel into your fire..Yamamoto was deputy director could he have been in line for promotion in case of a vacancy? He also previously was administrator of the drug and alcohol abuse unit..what did he learn there?
ok back to reality.
What I think will be the cause of death for Fuddy, will be myocardial infarction. The event was too much for the ol’ gal’s heart. Maybe, and more specifically- cardiogenic shock. Her heart beat so fast that the arteries literally could not deliver blood fast enough to her racing heart. Drowning is a possibility too. Yamamoto letting her drift away, smells of something untoward? Carelessness, callousness, negligence, intentional, I just don’t know? Like someone up-post offered- maybe Yamamoto clawed on Fuddy in a panic to stay afloat in an actual accidental way? The trouble is Fuddy’s historical position with Obama’s birth records. I - can’t - separate - the - connection - from - this - event.
You make some excellent points. Something about Yamamoto’s acct has struck quite a few people as odd. Perhaps it struck the investigators as odd too. I have only seen one acct that gives any rationale for the length of time it is taking to determine a cause of death [for Fuddy]. The investigator said the delay was due to the time involved in interviewing the survivors. Hmm. As you suggested, perhaps something doesn’t quite add up. Hopefully the results of the investigation will be released eventually. Ought to be very interesting to read—provided they are accurate.
Yes, both their surnames are definitely Japanese. But pilot Kawasaki had a "buzz cut" hair style; the man in the image of the airplane occupants on the water, second person from the right, has longer hair plus Oriental skin tone and eyeglasses consistent with mug shots of Keith Yamamoto, Fuddy's deputy in the Hawaii Health Dept.
Thank you for your reasoned observations. OK, we should be fair. Agreed. Also, I wasn’t there in Yamamoto’s shoes.
Oftentimes, I view things through the prism of my own eyes, then coin a response.
In other words- you drop dead next to me in the water, or are unresponsive, and your head is above the water, I’m either keeping ahold of you, or tying something to you, to keep you with me, corpse or not. In fact, I would be orchestrating the group to close in and form a circle, so that each of us could keep an eye on each other and lend encouragement. It’s my nature.
Maybe Yamamoto will offer more, dissuading my cynical opinions, and if so, I will apologize for my reactionary, suspect behavior.
Pilot Kawasaki also appears to be wearing white shirt. Not exactly sure of the color of the shirt the second person from the right in the image at post # 45, but it is definitely not white. That, plus the aforementioned differences in hairstyle and age, plus the fact that Kawasaki is not wearing eyeglasses while the Oriental-looking man in the image at # 45 surely is, verifies that the man in the image, second person from the right, is almost surely Keith Yamamoto.
Problem is, there are two people who have NOT been named.
Correction - shite shirt should be WHITE SHIRT.
Who are the people near the door?
And I’ll just mention that even in a light breeze, those inflated jackets act like a sail - the survivors would have been scattered over a considerable distance by the time there was any rescue. It would be interesting to see an image from above, just how far apart they were. They had nothing to hang onto after the aircraft went down. Evidently no one thought to form a human chain as you have suggested.
What wind there was would have scattered them as soon as the plane went down.
“Where are he other two”. Are they also the two not identified?
I’m using your method:
A pilot and 8 passengers; one of which was a swimmer-
PilotClyde Kawasaki, age 60
He’s seen swimming with a white shirt and no jacket, and blood on his face. He’s not in camera range.
Passenger # 1 Loretta Fuddy, age 65, Hawaii State Health Director.
She’s on the left near the door, her hair isn’t wet, she’s wearing a lifejacket.
Passenger # 2 Keith Yamamoto, Fuddys Deputy Director.
He’s there right beside her, holding onto her hand or her arm, he also is wearing a lifejacket.
Passenger # 3 Rosa Key, wife of Jacob Key, from Oahu.
Passenger # 4 Jacob Key, husband of Rosa Key, from Oahu.
Rosa is hanging onto the wing of the aircraft, Jacob appears to be swimming towards the wing.
Passenger # 5 C. Phillip Hollstein Jr., age 70, swimmer, from Kailua.
Can’t see him.
Passenger # 6 Ferdinand Puentes, onboard impromptu videographer.
WE know he’s there because he took the video.
Passenger # 7
Passenger # 8
Are probably the man seen sitting on the wing, blowing up the lifevest for the woman in the water who doesn’t have one.
They are not identified by name, it has been suggested they were ‘tourists’.
looks good now list them by seat numbers
You’re cheeky, you know I can’t do that...but that aircraft was licenced to carry 9, which I assume to mean eight passengers and the pilot.
So from seats one through to 8, you have Fuddy and Yamamoto, and the Key couple sitting right behind them. That’s four.
Either in front or behind, the tourists sitting one on each side, and the photographer and the swimmer.
Four rows of two = eight people. Near enough?
tourists probably in 1 a and 1b, fuddy 2a, yamamoto 2b, Key woman 3a, man 3b, swimmer 4a photographer 4b
I believe it could hold 9 passengers and pilot one passenger in the cockpit.
extra seat in cockpit was for invisible CIA person.
So it follows that the unnamed tourists sat in seats one and two, Fuddy and Yamamoto behind them in three and four, the Kay couple behind them in five and six, and that leaves seven and eight for the swimmer and the photographer.
All open to dispute of course, but I'm through.
Last one, promise:
“...There were a total of nine people, including the pilot, aboard the aircraft. Eight of those on board were rescued alive...”
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