According to http://mauitvnews.com/blog/tag/molokai-plane-crash/ :
“Coast Guard watchstanders at the Joint Rescue Coordination Center received report of a plane crash with nine passengers aboard at 3:27 p.m. Wednesday.
The Coast Guard launched two MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrews and one HC-130 Hercules airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point on Oahu. Coast Guard Cutters Ahi and Galveston Island, home-ported in Honolulu, and two 45-foot Response-Boat Medium crews from Station Maui were also dispatched to the scene.
Rescue swimmers from the Dolphin helicopters were deployed, rescuing three passengers in the water. Maui Fire Rescue rescued additional passengers.
Three people were transported by Dolphin helicopter crews to Honolulu for emergency medical services. Two people were transported by a Makani Kai company plane to Honolulu and the rest of the passengers remained on Molokai....
Today, Maui mayor Alan Arakawa extended his condolences to the victim’s family, including her sister, who is a part of the Maui County family and works as a Maui Police Department Chaplain on Molokai. “
Station Maui is on the south side of Maui, according to http://www.uscg.mil/d14/staMaui/Default.asp . Max speed for a Response Boat Medium is 42.5 knots, or 48.9 miles/hour. So it might have just taken the boats that long to get there. Helicopters and plane from Oahu, I don’t know. Seemed like Kawasaki thought it would take 1/2 hour, not an hour.
Sounds like Fuddy’s sister works directly with the Police Chief spokesman who claimed the day after the crash that Fuddy’s body was retrieved from the wreckage.
I need a coffee.
At #40, Fuddy's flight back to Honolulu was only 30 minutes. The Coast Guard's speed would be faster.
"This may be unrelated but still worthy of notice... I keep looking to see if he was on the plane 2 months earlier also."Year Ends with Unexpected Deaths of Two Hawaii Leaders
'Two events shocked Hawaii nonprofits in December: the untimely and unexpected passing of Lowell Kalapa, president of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, and the death of Loretta Fuddy, director of the state Department of Health, in an airplane crash off Molokai.
'In addition to being president of the Tax Foundation for three decades, Lowell Kalapa, 64, was a regular contributor to the online Civil Beat news website, where his last article, "Hawaii Tax Policy Should Be Equitable and Not Hinder Economic Growth," appeared on Dec. 22. He died on Dec. 30 from unknown causes. '
"Some documented passengers:
Deputy Director: Keith Y. Yamamoto
Flip Holstein, Action Fire Sprinklers Corp. President
Rosa and Jacob Key (sat behind Loretta) (Rosa is National Park Service administrator at Kalaupapa)"*pilot = Clyde Kawasaki* (Presently and was employed by Mid Pacific Air on date of accident- not Makanai Kai Air -AF vet-seems kewl though...) (Son Robert Kawasaki)
He also states that he got every passenger into a vest and out of the plane. Yamamoto says he put Fuddy's vest on though."