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combatmaster
reply to post by freakjive
I showed the full gopro video to a friend of mine, a real skeptic of sorts.
I didnt tell him the context or the BC connection, only that it was footage of a plane crash etc. and asked him to point out anything he might find out of place.
While viewing it he said he saw a scuba/suit diver. He didnt know if it was out of place or not but he let me know that he identified what he thought was scuba/suit diver.
When the gopro vid ended, he turned to me and said something alarming... something that has not been talked about on this thread yet.
He said to me, "Are they all actors?". I asked, "why do u say that", and he replies, "Cos they were just too perfect, and why did they make no sounds?" He said that he felt like all people in the vid were prepared for what was happening, as if they knew, just like actors know.
It blew my mind.... what does anyone know about all the survivors?edit on 2014-02-27T21:48:44-06:00201402bpm2802pm4428 by combatmaster because: (no reason given)
Mikeultra
reply to post by Destinyone
I'm not normal... I don't have a Facebook account, lol. So I can't read the story that you linked to. Is there anything incriminating or suspicious in his story? Something that doesn't match in an earlier telling...
Extra link for local news stories. www.hawaiinewsnow.com...
edit on 27-2-2014 by Mikeultra because: thing
edit on 27-2-2014 by Mikeultra because: extra link
My Kalaupapa Plane Crash Experience.
January 7, 2014 at 4:45am
I was on a Kalaupapa, Molokai to do some work repair for the day on the St. Francis Church that our company worked on last year. I have taken the trip there many times, so to me it was just a same routine for me. As we were taking off to go back to Honolulu I turned my GoPro camera on to capture the view of the take off of the plane because I also took a video recording of us landing there in the morning. We were taking off, in about 2 minutes into the flight with a slight left turn and gradual climb to reach our destine altitude, there was a loud pop/bang noise from our single engine plane then silence befell on us all with realization of what's about to happen. We're in shock. As the plane still in mid-flight and banking left, the pilot steered the plane towards land and leveled the plane steady. There were no screams and no one panicked. It was surreal, as if a slow motion spell was on me as I switched my views from watching the pilots effort to glide the plane, to the passengers & then view of the ocean that is ascending closer through the viewport of the plane very quickly.
My viewport ocean pic
Mind you that it took around 30 seconds from an altitude from in my opinion approximately 1,000-1,500ft to impact into the ocean.
My viewport pic
In that split second after impact, all my sense and conscience has set and triggered a survival mode type instinct. One passenger yelled to assist to get the door open, as soon as he had requested the help another person was there and ready. They both got the door to open. At the same time I yelled to grab their life jacket. The trauma has begun to set in deeper in all of us.
Stepping out pic
I was fumbling trying to get the life jacket out of the sealed bag and donning it. There were too many things to worry about that your heart and your soul can't keep up to match the pace of your own thinking at that moment. We all have to make that pyrrhic act.
The Plane Floats!!! [ic
As I was ready to step out I looked into the cabin of the plane one last time if everyone is alright and egress the plane. The look of shock has instill them all. As I stepped out into the ocean, I noticed how strong the energy of the current and swells of the ocean is. One of the key factors that made me calm in the ocean is that I am very comfortable within the oceans caress. I am a spear fisherman since my youth, so I swam up to and held on to the wing of the plane.
On the wing pic
As I was on a grip hold of the wing, I moved along the edges of to the end so the other passengers could follow and hold onto the wing of the plane also.
End of the Wing [ic
As I wait at the end of the wing of the plane, I watched a pair of the passengers proceed towards me. One of them asked me to assist her with her life vest, so I did. As I helped her with the vest around her collar I've notice I was sinking. I haven't inflated my life vest, I'm trying desperately to stay afloat but it was very difficult to do with steel toe boots, heavy denim jeans and long sleeve work clothes. I couldn't continue to wrap the strap of the vest around her as I was in my own predicament trying to get situated myself. I also didn't have mines on properly.
Egress pic
I was trying to stay afloat with the apparel I am wearing and while still holding on to my GoPro, I am trying to feel for the strap to secure the vest to myself. Within those few moments struggling to don the vest on myself.
All out pic
All of the passengers including the pilot has exited the plane. I pulled one of the cord to auto inflate the first chamber of my vest so I could stay afloat. Realizing that I couldn't stay buoyant still, the pilot who was floating with a seat cushion handed his floatation device to me.
The Hero Pilot pic
Another shocking moment came to me as I've noticed how much blood was covering his face. He had given instructions to stay together and not to hold on to the plane, just to be safe so it doesn't sink with people holding on.
Together pic
Within a minute of releasing the plane, the current of the ocean has drifted us away from the plane quickly.1 minute drift
1 minute drift pic
We were about half mile out from land. In my thought process I told myself "I can make that swim". So, I said I'm going to try and head towards the shore. Another person was about to do the same trek to shore. Thats when we broke away from the group to make it to shore. I was constantly mumbling to myself that "I swam farther than this before, I can make it!".
Swimming back pic
Within ten minutes or so since impact, there was a plane that came into view and made itself known to us. That was a defining moment in that time, that hope has befell upon us. There was a overwhelming joy within me that someone knowingly we are in danger and could call for a rescue.
Hope
My attempt to swim to shore was very exhausting, my laces on one my boots were becoming undone and were about to slip off. I wanted to take my clothing off down to my board shorts so I could swim better. But with the water being cold and the surge of the waves slamming onto the reef, I decided not to. I didn't want to have hyperthermia or tumbling on the sharp rocky shoreline. Just as I was resting by my lonesome, here comes a Humpback whale breaking the waterline near me to breathe about 50ft or so. I screamed loudly mistakingly thinking I was going to be just like a seal being launched up from a Great White Shark or something. But at that brief moment as the whale peered at me with its eye and I gazed back at his knowing that there is some type of intelligence and understanding it held, that it felt as it pierced my soul. It was a ephemeral swim together. As I settled from that whale experience I just floated there for a while, thinking of all my children, family & friends. I prayed that I wanted to hold them one last time. I just wanted to cry, thinking for the worst that was going to happen. Doubt has snuck into me. A long moment has pass... the plane has been constantly flying over us still continue to assure us there is hope. Next came a helicopter hovering over the group which was at that time appears to be about 2 miles away from where I am. As both the plane and the helicopter flying over us I continued again to swim to shore. I was around 50 yards away from shore, but the energy of the wave hitting the rocky cliff created a backwash which made it very difficult to get to shore. On shore there was a guy trying to direct me to a safer place to get on shore, to a place where the surf wasn't as rough. I attempted to swim in the direction he commanded but the surge has broken my will. In my exhausted state, I noticed there was two more helicopter and the Coast Guard C-130 that were in the sky also. It made my hope and adrenaline start back up again. I watched the smaller helicopter with a cargo net type basket with a rescue swimmer in it plucking people out of the group that is far away from me. When it had returned and veered to my location I was in joy but yet exhausted mentally and physically. I almost didn't have the strength to grab on to the rescue swimmer that guided me into the basket. When we were up dangling in the basket, it gave me a view to see the smoke signals that were the spot of the group. They were far, far away. As soon as I landed and gotten out of the basket, a paramedic came and guided me into the chair within the airport. I was shivering and it hurts. It looks as if the whole community were there to help. I got covered in blankets immediately before I've taken a seat. I took off my clothes till my board short were left so I could become dry faster and heat up quicker also. As I was being treated, I looked for the other survivors an asked if they're okay, but I didn't asked out loud in speaking. I asked with just a look and was answered and confirmed with their expression. We survived!!! The adrenaline in me starts to ease down, the pain and throbbing on my neck, shoulder and back is coming on fast. Every shiver from being cold is hurting. I've complained about it earlier and came with a neck brace and a board to strap me down so I don't rotate my neck or spine. Just to be safe. I was loaded into the helicopter headed to Honolulu. That ride was rough in the beginning, my neck, shoulders and back was hurting from the vibrations of the helicopter. As the time went by the vibration of it soon felt like a massage. So we arrived at the airport in Honolulu waiting to be transferred to the ambulance and headed to Queens Hospital.edit on 27-2-2014 by Destinyone because: (no reason given)
Zaphod58
reply to post by Destinyone
The Fire Department was on scene first. That was the smaller helicopter. Then the Navy Seahawk in the pictures above.
Mikeultra
Zaphod58
reply to post by Destinyone
The Fire Department was on scene first. That was the smaller helicopter. Then the Navy Seahawk in the pictures above.
Thanks, Seahawk H-60 not Blackhawk. Here's the fire department I think.
This photo looks too Getty like. (fake/staged)
And of course the beloved Coast Guard.
combatmaster
reply to post by Mikeultra
If there was a chopper on the scene that obviously changes everything.
However, i remember reading somewhere on this thread that the 1st response team chopper arrived approx 10 mins after the crash. Is this the footage we are seeing of the diver of the response team?
If thats the case then this thread is solved! No?