That's really the best I can do, I think 'the missing woman' is Fuddy, her hair is still dry and it looks like she's still wearing the same sunglasses, and she's very very pale.
“So if Yamamoto has anything to regret, it’s because he didn’t keep hold of her for that hour. He said she was unresponsive, maybe he should have said, I think she died. He has left us with the impression he let an unconscious woman drift away with the tide and the wind, and I sincerely doubt that’s what happened.”
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When you put it that way, it sounds even more implausible. They repeatedly told us that the pilot tried to keep everyone together. There was even one story that said they were all in a circle, staying together.
Yamamoto was holding her hand, the priest says. She let go, the priest says. She was “unresponsive”. So Yamamoto didn’t cry out to her? He didn’t yell, “Loretta, Deliana! HELP!” He just let her drift away, a half mile out from everyone else?
He didn’t enlist anyone else to see what they might be able to do for her? He didn’t say, “OMG, I think Deliana died. Help!”?
Mind you that nobody else was panicking and Puentes was shooting video, even as late as when somebody was getting close to shore, so that had to be quite a while later.
Yamamoto told the priest that he saw her go unresponsive and let go of her. He didn’t try to grab her back and hang onto her, knowing that she couldn’t hang on for herself?
This is the first I’ve heard that she was a mile out when recovered. So did the Coast Guard intercept her body that far out, take her pulse, find there wasn’t a pulse, and then abandoned her body to the wind and tide and let her drift further out?
My impression of the rescue was that Fuddy was there close to the others. So she drifted away during the rescue of the others, or what? If she were dead for an hour, nobody checked on her that whole time? Nobody swam to HER instead of to shore?
The rescuer guy said she had no pulse. But the coroner says her pulse was out of rhythm, so could the rescuer be sure? He didn’t say she was obviously dead.
That's really the best I can do, I think 'the missing woman' is Fuddy, her hair is still dry and it looks like she's still wearing the same sunglasses, and she's very very pale.
I think that's how urban legends start, the way I remember it was someone SUGGESTED that's what the pilot SHOULD have done. There's one still from the video that shows how shortly after the aircraft went down, they were all floating individually all over the place...I think you can count six if you look.