Posted on 01/13/2014 6:27:32 PM PST by machogirl
Maui County police says the late state health director Loretta Fuddy died due to cardiac arrhythmia as a result of stress after a Makani Kai Air plane crashed off of Molokai last month.
An arrhythmia is a problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat.
Fuddy's death has been ruled as accidental.
On Dec. 11, the plane lost power off of Kalaupapa. Nine people were on board the plane including Fuddy. The pilot and seven other passengers survived the crash.
The pilot and a passenger who swam to shore have said Fuddy appeared fine while bobbing in the water after everyone exited the plane and waited for help to arrive.
Fuddy's brother, Lewis Fuddy, says she was healthy and didn't have any known heart problems.
Read more: http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/maui-police-release-cause-of-death-for-fuddy/-/8905354/23912372/-/qt081t/-/index.html#ixzz2qKtA6VTQ
That would be an interesting story. (never to be seen)
Ouch!
true words
“The One” has had recent scandals, impeachable offenses, in the past year. In this past year, those actions/inactions were not derailed by his BC (birfer) issue. The MSM refuses to investigate or hold “the One” accountable. Lies are caught, exposed and he still slides through. My point being, that those are impeachable offenses or certainly ones more troublesome than Watergate and the BC issue had nothing to do with the lack of holding Barry accountable. He’s admitted he does not know what is going on with his own Administration unless he watches “the news”. Exposed on Benghazi, the IRS, and those are called “phony scandals” and the MSM is complicit. “Birthers” don’t deserve the blame for that.
That was a great post. Props.
The airline that was transporting Fuddy hadn’t had an accident in 20 years.
I’m pretty sure the pilot put out a mayday call on 121.5 MHz that the FAA or the Coastguard would have picked up on.
Where is the closest Coast Guard station? How long does it take to fly a helicopter from the station to the point where the crash landing occurred?
The guy who was there to protect Fuddy took selfies of himself after the crash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1qJWqmSNHQ
There’s a guy I work with who had that done.
I asked him “Did you get the ‘and restart it’ part in writing?”.
Which is probably true. Government run amuck because their 'leader' is always on vacation.
I did check to see where the closest Coast Guard stations are located in Hawii.
One is at Barbers Point near Kapolei WSW of Honolulu. It looks like they would be the ones to dispatch air assets for water rescues.
The other is a Coast Guard auxiliary station on the west side of Maui and one on Kauai.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Coast_Guard_stations
Hawaii is in the 14th district.
Indeed.
One can actually SEE Molokai from Maui. It is quite close, so even if the Coast Guard had to send help from Maui, it should not have taken long at all. (Molokai is part of Maui County, in fact.)
Maui is very close. Kauai is about 40 minutes away by air.
They are probably all hussein lovers so they'll never take off their rose colored glasses.
The airport is outside of town and apparently the employees had closed shop early. Fuddy's plane was scheduled to depart at 3:35 but departed early around 3:15. Everyone agrees the engine failed in the first seconds from take off so they were well within sight of the airport. Another plane in the area had radioed the Molokai tower to request landing and Molokai had already heard the emergency beacon and asked if they would could see the downed plane. They saw it almost immediately and landed at the Kalaupapi airport around 4:00 to find no one there.
Why was the Kalaupapa Airport closed early? When did the last employee leave the property? Why did they leave before Honorary Mayor Fuddy's plane depart? Yes, she was the honorary mayor. All those passengers didn't walk to the airport, they had to be driven there by taxi, friends or family. The airport has been in a three year controversy as to where to build a fire truck garage because they don't want it to block the view of people seeing planes off. Not that the land is smooth and you can see forever around it. Are we to believe that all the airport employees when home early knowing full well that the "Mayor" was expected and that Fuddy's and the other passengers' rides hadn't bothered to see them off as is "custom"? The airport's home page states it's custom for people to come out and watch the planes.
Except they didn't call it natural but accidental. "Accidental" isn't a cause of death.
“Another plane in the area had radioed the Molokai tower to request landing and Molokai had already heard the emergency beacon and asked if they would could see the downed plane. They saw it almost immediately and landed at the Kalaupapi airport around 4:00 to find no one there.”
On the inside of the door on the left side there’s usually a switch to throw that turns the emergency beacon on. Sounds like the pilot did that. The beacon was also probably picked up by Honolulu and satellites orbiting the Earth.
The pilot most likely also threw his radio over to 121.5 MHz and called out a mayday alert which Molokai and Honolulu would have certainly heard.
I would think that if Molokai tower acknowledged the emergency they would have stayed to assist the Coast Guard until the situation was over.
Very, very strange.
They must have been smoking some of that Maui Wowee that day!
Thank you!
You nailed it. hussein couldn’t stay in HI any longer and it would be weird for Jarrett to stay by herself so we get this ridiculous story about a girls’ vacay. Moo and Holder’s wife aren’t on the government’s payroll but why is Jarrett still out partying and not one talking head is questioning it? hussein can’t walk into the Oval Office without Jarrett so something’s up. Yes, she is very much on the job.
Not altogether implausible!
Incidentally, last July my dear friend and I were in an open-door helicopter over the Big island when she had a massive aneurism and died in my arms. I attempted CPR, while pressing the call button and instructing the pilot that we had a medical emergency. He immediately turned the chopper around and headed for Hilo airport. The Emergency crew was waiting for us, I ripped off my friend’s life belt, headset, and seat belt and assisted the EMTs in lowering her to the ground as they tried to revive her. I then followed the ambulance to the ER, did all the paperwork for my friend, and spent the next 48 hours trying to find her next-of-kin by calling every number on her cell phone. I eventually had to authorize her removal from life support, identify her body, and ship all her belongings back home.
At no time did i even consider taking a “selfie”.
Blah, my 4:00 should have been 3:30 when the airport employees should hanging the closed sign on the door but not have left the premises.
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