According to Lang and Thomson, about 15 minutes before the first rescue crew arrived the aircraft completely submerged and sank."
"All that was left was a faint fuel trail, some light debris, and now 8 bodies scattered in the water roughly one mile from where the plane had sunk," the couple said.
They say around 4:30 p.m., about an hour after they first spotted the plane, a Navy helicopter arrived. According to Lang and Thomson, once they showed rescuers where to go, they left to avoid being in the way.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/24246422/exclusive-pilot-describes-discovering-molokai-plane-crash
In Lang’s defense, the first rescue crew arrived at about 4:30, according to the MCFD - about the time that Lang says a navy helicopter arrived. If the plane sunk at about 4:15 his claims could fit with the MCFD report. Did Lang say when the plane sank?
So when was the navy helicopter at the airport doing what Mark Miller called “touch and goes”??