Posted on 01/10/2014 1:52:43 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty
A month after a small plane crash in Hawaii, a surviving passenger shows GoPro footage and even a selfie taken during the ordeal.
Would you have done the same? Ferdinand Puentes was one of nine passengers in a 2002 Cessna Grand Caravan which suddenly suffered engine failure off Kalaupapa, Molokai in Hawaii last month. As he heard the engine fail and saw the plane heading for the water, one of his first instincts was to turn on his GoPro camera and film what might have been his own demise. As KHON-TV reports, Puentes knew the danger he was in, yet the decision to film as much as possible might perplex a few. He managed to get out of the plane alive and survived the crash. However, while he was floating on a seat cushion and wearing his life raft, he took a selfie.
Was the impulse to record just a natural reaction? After all, any bystander or news organization would have likely done the same thing. And these days everyone is using their phones to film just about everything they see. But wouldn't one's first instinct be to try to contact family and friends to say goodbye? Perhaps that did happen. The footage reflects a quite stunning lack of panic. The passengers behave in an orderly manner. There is no screaming or pushing. No one seems frantic at all. Loretta Fuddy, Hawaii's 65-year-old state director of health, died in the crash, despite managing to leave the plane. In watching Puentes talk to KHON-TV, though, it's evident that the footage brings back painful memories. Would everyone want to have such ready access to a reminder? Or would some prefer to forget? "You could have died," Puentes told KHON-TV. "There's so much variations that could have happened for the worse."
Cold water shock can cause a cardiac episode....
Sure, but this was Hawaii!
70 degress F is still cold to a completely submerged human being...
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Fuddy made it out of the sinking plane fine, but died after escaping.
In the water, Fuddy held hands with her deputy director Keith Yamamoto as he tried to help her relax, said the Rev. Patrick Killilea, who consoled Yamamoto after the ordeal.
‘He recounted how he said he helped Loretta into her life jacket and he held her hand for some time,’ the priest said. ‘They were all floating together and she let go and there was no response from her.’
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Rescue swimmer Mark Peer said when he swam to Fuddy, she was unresponsive and he couldn’t find a pulse. ‘It was not a good feeling,’ he said.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2536931/New-footage-shows-harrowing-moment-small-plane-crashed-Hawaii-killed-woman-published-President-Obamas-birth-certificate.html
I can get one of those at my local gas station for five bucks.
It’s not splitting hairs! She didn’t die “in the plane” or the “crash”. C’mon folks, words mean things. Let’s be Accurate.
That is, a visit to the grifters who were (maybe still are? IDK) hanging at the Oprah estate (FLOTUS, VJ...).
Poor Fuddy, maybe she had an invite but it got “cancelled”.
It sure looks like her.
This “conspiracy theory” is one of the stupidest I’ve ever seen on FR. Did Obama have the plane crash, so she could survive only to die in the water? Dolphin assassins? A fat 65 year old lady was in a traumatic event...people die.
Seriously. I can’t believe how ridiculous some FReepers are being.
Apparently they think a US Marshall took a selfie after murdering Fuddy...after a plane crash.
My guess is that Loretta Fuddy is the fourth person from the right in that photo, with her head sharply tilted toward our right (her left). Maybe she is trying to get water out of her ear.. Still alive, however.
Yeah, the Clintons were experts at hit and run murder.
Have they released the autopsy results yet? When they first did the autopsy, they wouldn’t release. They apparently didn’t like the initial results and needed to do ‘more’.
Hawaiian waters are sometimes 80 degrees warm
Source?
Non-national media, of course.
” Initially everyone said that everyone was accounted for and everyone was okay. “
“One passenger, state Health Director Loretta Fuddy, 65, died following the crash, and seven other survived without any major injuries when Kawasaki glided the plane to a water landing.
“It was devastating to say the least,” he said of learning later that Fuddy had died. “I could not understand how that could have happened....everybody seemed fine when we got out of the airplane.”
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20131218_Pilot_recounts_details_of_plane_crash_off_Molokai.html
“Hollstein last remembers seeing Health Director Loretta Fuddy with a life vest on.”
http://www.khon2.com/news/plane-crash-survivor-praises-pilot
The original news reports said that one of her colleagues was holding her hand as they tread water in their life jackets and then suddenly (!) she was dead when the rescuers arrived.
What about the CIA agents on Pan Am 103?
Yeah, just fell out of his canoe, with breakfast on the table, and drowned. I think Vince Flynn wrote a scene in one of his books of Mitch Rapp pulling some guy off his boat and drowning him, making it look like the guy slipped in the middle of the night and couldn’t get back on board. Happens all the time.
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