If I was the lawyer I would be pushing hard to find out why the NTSB allowed this engine to be taken apart before it was lifted from the ocean. At 69-70 feet underwater it was below the impact of waves, and if they were able to find watches and jewelry down there on the rocky bottom, there can’t have been a whole lot of hard sweeping action. Certainly not enough to tear the engine right out of the fuselage within 5 days.
I’d also push hard to find out why the fuselage in the Oct 21 Cessna engine failure off Maui was not secured as if it was a crime scene.
Of course, if I was the insurance company and knew that bucking the “official story” would get me an IRS audit, it might be another story.... If I was the airline company and knew that bucking the “official story” would lose me the Essential Air Services federal subsidy that keeps my company afloat, it might be big motivation to take the engine out and make sure there’s something in there to explain the crash... The EAS award for the coming year is supposed to be decided later this month, right around the same time as the Makani Kai mechanic is supposed to go to Canada and help take apart the engine and decide whether he sabotaged it...
These are the times we’re living in, and by now everybody in the world should know it.
“At 69-70 feet underwater it was below the impact of waves”
I disagree. If you look at the videos it is readily apparent the wing were bent from the impact with the water. The wave action on the bottom would have been more like rolling back and forth across the rocky bottom. The fact the contents of the plane were being spilt out would certainly suggest that it broke apart on the bottom.