The regulations say that if there is fire or a death (among other things) there has to be an extensive investigation and the scene needs to be treated as a crime scene. Kawasaki claimed that “—”I know is there was a bang and I had an annunciator panel that was nothing but red and yellow lights, and a fire warning was going off, and I was like ‘okay I’m in trouble,’” (see http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/report-confirms-pilots-account-in-molokai-emergency-landing/-/8905354/23717130/-/sy2wnjz/-/index.html#ixzz2pT8i1D1a )
So even if Fuddy’s death was found to be unrelated to the crash, the area would still have to be treated as a crime scene according to the regulations, because the pilot reported that a fire warning had gone off.
But then, at least one passenger on the Cessna 208 that went down on Oct 21 (less than 25 miles away from this accident) reported that there were sparks so that should have been treated as a crime scene also. Instead, the wreckage was left unattended overnight and the air company (Mokulele Express) was allowed to move the wreckage to a vacant lot. The NTSB official at that time said that if there was going to be an in-depth investigation the company would be responsible to move the aircraft (at that point there should have been no question of whether there would be an extensive investigation). But even though they’ve had the intact plane in a hangar for inspection and it was known that engine failure was the problem, they haven’t come up with a cause for the engine failure in the past 2 1/2 months.
Yes, in a sane world but this is hussein’s HI which means up is down.