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."
Do you have an official quote or other linkable source for this explanation of the delay [in releasing the (inconclusive) autopsy report]?
Or are you just making it up...AGAIN?
The only article I’ve read that deals w the delay says nothing about waiting for a toxicology report. The official explanation was that they are still interviewing survivors from the crash. What’s *your* source for an alternative explanation?
Why are all the faces distorted /blurred in that pic?
The one with Fuddy fourth from right
Didn’t see her. But couldn’t enlarge the screen either. Much of the video looked like hey edited just a few clips to fit the time slot We certainly are not seeing the entire footage
Quick googling did not get any hits on the passenger list.
9 people. Pilot, film guy, 70 year-old that swam to shore, and Keith are the confirmed men. (4) men Loretta Fuddy and woman that film guy helped put on a vest makes two (2) woman. Who are the other people? I see two women in film-guy’s shot, both very alive.
Here is an interview (extended) with film guy. Very descriptive. He encountered a whale.
http://savvystews.com/2014/01/08/savvystews-exclusive-surviving-a-ditching-in-the-pacific-ocean/
Usually they release passenger lists in a “crash”. I can’t find one. Doesn’t mean an “intrepid” reporter didn’t ask.
Do you have pictures of the other female passengers ? How many of the 8 passengers were women? Process of elimination
A full month on a high profile case?
Grandmother was head of the family trust set up by her father. He sided in 68. In 71 (about the time a final probate/distribution would take place ) grandma was appointed VP/head of the trust escrow dept of the bank, 0”s guardian and they moved into a penthouse apartment and enrolled the ten year old in private school. Perhaps their glee was that the grandparent no longer controlled his substantial fortune!
Check out picture here! Fuddy?
I’m up to 5 confirmed guys and two women from the selfie pic. The five guys are named and Fuddy. Who are the other two people?
thank you, i was beginning to wonder why i couldn’t find a thing on my 8th page of google search.
Ping to article and photos in the thread, also interesting comments; I haven't read them all, yet.
Thanks, hoosiermama. Good catch.
Curiouser (sic) and curiouser (sic) by the day. The videographer is Ferdinand Puentes. Passenger # six. The two passengers left to ID were (I think) the two that refused treatment once on shore and ski-daddled. Also, Mr Yamamoto, Fuddy’s deputy director, was the one holding Fuddy’s hand. He said she - let - go. Now that’s the kind of buddy you want to have holding onto you, when you’re bobbing in the depths off Molokai eh?
1.Fuddy f
2. Assistant m
3. Photographer m
4. Swimmer m
5.Pilot m
6.Husband m
7. Wife f
8 ???
9 ???
My question from the beginning
She was holding on to his hand
WHERE WAS HIS HAND?
Under water?
Around her neck? Life vest?
Holding the rip cord?
In one article it said he was holding her and she let go. HMMMM?
What was their relationship?
weird. interesting that some articles list Molokai is where Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro and Molokai was where segregated Leprosy colony was located. Obama signed a bill in 2009, Kalaupapa Memorial Act, which has permitted the organization to establish a memorial listing the names of everyone sent to the peninsula. This is to help the “lost children of Kalaupapa”, children born on the colony and then removed to be adopted, to reconnect with family. Not saying Barry was the son of a Kalaupapa colonist, but it would make an interesting theory.
http://www.aroundhawaii.com/community/features/2011-09-a-lost-child-of-kalaupapa.html
I’d read (probably here on FR) that he was holding her hand because she was scared, anxious, etc. and then she let go. Maybe he LET her go. If HE was holding HER hand how did SHE let go? And even if she let go of his hand why wouldn’t he try to swim back to her? How far and quickly could she have drifted away? Too many questions.
Same here... 6 passengers and the pilot accounted for. Somewhere I read two people refused treatment once on shore and ski-daddled. Those are the passengers that have not been identified by the freeper special task force assigned to the crash investigation.
Mr Yamamoto said Fuddy let - go - of - his - hand. Does that make any sense whatsoever? You’re bobbing in the water after surviving an airplane ditching / crash landing in the sea and you are holding on to your elderly boss’s hand and she let’s go of your hand. Wouldn’t you A: notice and B: reconnect with the person physically- whether you held her hand or grabbed a handful of clothing or grabbed onto some part of her life vest? It’s your boss for crying out loud. And did I mention that she’s a human being? Wow, just wow.
Since everyone looked relatively well (except for the bloody pilot), my inclination would be to hold on to her with her head up. (i had water rescue training) It would be easier with a float.
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