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
First Schuman said the pilot hadn’t put in a Mayday call, then the pilot said he had.
The nearest Coast Guard station is Station Molokai, roughly 30 miles away. But I’m not sure if they have a helicopter. The next-closest is in Honolulu at Diamond Point. With the HC-130 it’s a 10-minute flight; with the helicopters it’s a 15-minute flight, at top cruising speeds.
As far as we know, Puentes (the guy who took the photos) wasn’t there to protect Fuddy, but Fuddy’s deputy health director, Keith Yamamoto, was there.
It sounds like the emergency personnel were intentionally delayed.
Shoot. I biffed that one. Not Molokia; it should have been Station Maui. And in Honolulu the Coast Guard station isn’t at Diamond Point but Barber’s Point. Diamond Point is where the H-60 that Miller said was doing “touch and goes” is stationed out of.
Too much fuzz in my brain on the technical stuff that I’ve just newly learned. I’m glad Jack looked it up and got it right.
According to their press release they got the call at 3:27pm. According to the Honolulu EMS, the 2 victims were picked up from the Honolulu airport at 6:30. That’s 3 hours for the Coast Guard to pick up 3 people - 2 of which were injured - and get them to an airport to be picked up by EMS.
I’ve read a good portion of the USCG’s protocol manual, which I linked here earlier, so I’ve seen some of the logistics issues, which can be quite complicated. But this was a good-weather day, the crash was close to shore so any dangerous drifting would be away from shore making the search easy, and the crash had already been sighted by another pilot in the area. There was nothing complicated about this mission.
Why did it take them 3 hours to deal with 3 people a 15-minute flight away from them?
Very good questions!
Nachum has a list. But like the name 0’Bitchuary
They were still in the water when the CG arrived - except for possibly 3 people who were either on the shore or within 50 yards of shore.
According to the reports based on an interview of the two swimmers, rescue swimmer PJ Ornot went first to Fuddy, decided she was unresponsive so he passed her by, and then hoisted Kawasaki who had a cut on his head and was later found to have a concussion. Mark Peer, in the other helicopter, hoisted a 70-sh-year-old who was waving and smiling and then - if you believe one of the stories - hoisted Fuddy. But the Coast Guard spokeswoman said the Coast Guard lifted 3 people out of the water, so the numbers don’t match.
And that was it. The Maui Fire/Rescue picked up all the rest who were picked up - 5 people, they said.
The total effort for the Coast Guard out of Honolulu lasted from 3:27 when they got to the call, to 6:30 when two victims were transferred to Honolulu EMS at the Honolulu airport. They lifted 3 from the water and they transported 2 to the Honolulu Airport by helicopter and one (the mystery woman nobody wants us to know even existed) directly to Queens Hospital via the HC-130.
Just because-
The Obama Dead Pool file
http://www.nachumlist.com/deadpool.htm
The Clinton Dead Pool file
http://www.nachumlist.com/hillarydeadpool.htm
Remember when Rush and Obama were in HI? And Rush was hospitalized with extreme chest pains. What up with that?
I believe Breitbart did have a heart problem...according to his brother in law IIRC.
Bump to thread.
An aerosolized toxin sprayed briefly in her face could induce cardiac arrest..
How do you accidentally have a heart attack?
The cause of death is stated to have been "accidental" (meaning there is no evidence of any intentional acts to put the victim into that situation of distress). The stress of that situation (which was created by accident) is believed to have triggered the arrhythmia (to be distinguished from a myocardial infarction (aka "heart attack").
To me it seems like the cause of death should be ‘natural causes’. Of course I don’t believe it regardless of what they say. The whole thing is to suspicious all things considered.
not sure. their wording could be better.
"Natural cause" is generally used when there is no external force acting on the decedent. An airplane accident takes the matter out of the "natural cause" category.
Of course I don’t believe it regardless of what they say.
Which makes quibbling about how they wrote it a bit pointless, no?
The whole thing is to suspicious all things considered.
I don't find it suspicious. The idea this was somehow a plot contrived to "silence" Fuddy suffers so many problems as to be ridiculous.
“Not sure. their wording could be better.”
Good point. We are relying on the media release of the Maui County police. We are not reading the actual coroner’s report.
Is your sole purpose here to defend the liar? Are you getting paid for it? I hope so, for all the trouble you are going to.
This is all so simple really. To get a copy of your birth certificate only requires a very small fee. What’s the going rate? $20 dollars perhaps? And you can get a nice copy of your original microfiche birth certificate. What’s the problem? Surely POTUS with all his education can manage this simple task. Let’s see it. Or is the next thing to happen, the Dept. of Vital Statistics in Hawaii going to ‘accidentally’ blow up?
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