Correction. I should have said it took 2 hours to get 3 people back to Honolulu. They took two people back to the Honolulu airport in a helicopter, and one person who is not listed as among the injured by either the USCG or the NTSB was flown in the HC-130 directly to Queens Hospital. That person was hidden by everybody official and got the luxury treatment even though she wasn’t even claimed as having any injuries. Why did they fly this woman directly to Queens Hospital without claiming her as a seriously-injured victim?
If the photo of “the mummy” is either Puentes or the 74-year-old woman at the ER in Honolulu, they were being treated for hypothermia. The protocol for hypothermia says that once active warming is happening (the heavy wrapping), the following is to be done:
“Notify receiving hospital ASAP; include Core Temp and Vital Signs, including pulse oximetry.
Support Respiratory Effort
Transport ASAP”
It took them almost 2 hours from the time they arrived to get those 2 hypothermic patients to the Honolulu airport, when the flight itself would take no more than 30 minutes. These were the only injured people the Coast Guard transported; why did it take them 1 1/2 hours to get these hypothermic patients loaded up to go Honolulu?
I’m fast losing track of who went where and in what fashion, but this article maintains that some were taken to a general hospital on Molokai:
http://themolokainews.com/2013/12/11/one-dead-in-makani-kai-air-crash-off-kalaupapa/
“...Eight people were found in the water with life vests on about a half mile northwest of Kalaupapa, according to Lee Mainaga of the MFD. The ninth person swam to shore.
Three of the crash victims were taken to Oahu, two declined treatment and are staying in Kalaupapa and three were airlifted by helicopter to topside where they were taken to Molokai General Hospital...