Yeah, Lang says he contacted the tower operator at Molokai when they found the downed plane. That must have been around 3:30. It wasn’t clear which airport they went to but it makes sense if it was the Kalaupapa Airport and nobody was there. It doesn’t make sense, though, that the tower operator at Molokai knew there was a plane in the ocean at 3:30 but according to Mark Miller, nobody alerted emergency crews until a navy plane just happened to be doing touch-and-goes and reported the crash to the Coast Guard and fire crews.
IN #114 YOU WROTE:
“According to the timeline the NTSB is giving now (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3107346/posts ), help crews didn’t even ARRIVE to check out the condition of the victims until 80 minutes after the crash - or 5:05pm. That’s 40 minutes after the crash was reported in the news and 25 minutes after it was reported in the news that there was one casualty. If the NTSB timeline is believed the rescue workers still had to pass Fuddy by, check out others, go back to Fuddy and determine her to be dead, and report it to the news reporter. If that whole process took 30 minutes, then the NTSB timeline would have the news reporting one dead almost an hour before anybody would have determined and reported that.”
~~~
There can only be one possible explanation for that...someone on that aircraft, now in the water, had a direct line to the reporter. (Maybe I’m being glib, but what else?)
The actual NTSB report says the passengers were rescued within 80 minutes.
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/GenPDF.aspx?id=WPR14FA068&rpt=p
On December 11, 2013, at 1522 Hawaiian standard time, a Cessna 208B, N687MA, sustained substantial damage following a loss of engine power and ditching into the Pacific near Kalaupapa, Hawaii.