During this time we made many low passes over the crash site and people
Hmm, if they made many low passes over the people, and cameras have telephoto settings, or whatever you call the things that make you see closer (I know NOTHING about photography obviously), and there were 2 in the plane making the numerous passes, it does seem that they would have taken some photos of the people floating about.
It is possible that he took pictures of the people floating in the water and didn’t release them because they could be traumatic to survivors. Why get sued over a picture?