In the water, Fuddy held hands with 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.’
Yes, I read that. I think she probably died of natural causes. One of the people around her said that she was ok but upset and then she suddenly sank and was just gone.
I think the group as a whole wasn’t very worried because they had their life jackets on, they were all accounted for (although I believe she had been pulled out of the plane by Yamamoto and the pilot) and they knew they’d be rescued because the pilot had called. But she was evidently not very fit or accustomed to being in water, and I think she just freaked out and died.
If it was sabotage, I’m not sure she would have been the target, in any case. Perhaps they all were.
Yes, that’s what Keith Yamamoto claims.
The facts existing at the time support the view that a healthy, life-jacketed person need not have had any difficulty whatsoever surviving the experience.
HF
From someone that's spent a lot of time in a life-jacket as an acquatics, swimming, life-saving, canoeing, boating and flight instructor.