Posted on 12/18/2013 6:04:02 AM PST by WhiskeyX
New video of Hawaii sea plane crash
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com ...
Huh?
There is nothing on this video.
There is nothing in this video except the ocean
The island in the background of the upper frame of the video is Molokai. The flat ground is the peninsula where the State of Hawaii until 1969 exiled patients suffering from the highly contagious disease of leprosy, Hansen’s Disease. This leper colony was located on this remote part of the island to make it too difficult for outsiders to make contact with the leprosy patients. The only access is by air travel to the Kalaupapa Airport-Lup or by pack mule across those tall mountains you see in the background.
If you look carefully, you can see the area of the peninsula where the airport is located, which is where the doomed aircraft used to takeoff for its trip to Honolulu on the island of Oahu. Between this helicopter and that airport is the place where the aircraft glided to a crash landing in the sea about 400 to 500 yards off of that shoreline near the airport.
Watch closely and you can see two or more tiny helicopters flying below at much lower altitudes as they are proceeding to the survivors in the water to rescue them. The helicopter where this video camera is located is staying at a higher altitude to avoid interfering with or risking collisions with the other helicopters you can see flying below.
The locations of the helicopters below give you some idea of how very far the survivors drifted in the rough seas and currents while awaiting these helicopters to rescue them. They started drifting away from that distant shoreline and now are located far out to sea where these helicopters are flying above them.
See, there is a lot to see in this short video clip.
The island in the background of the upper frame of the video is Molokai. The flat ground is the peninsula where the State of Hawaii until 1969 exiled patients suffering from the highly contagious disease of leprosy, Hansen’s Disease. This leper colony was located on this remote part of the island to make it too difficult for outsiders to make contact with the leprosy patients. The only access is by air travel to the Kalaupapa Airport-Lup or by pack mule across those tall mountains you see in the background.
If you look carefully, you can see the area of the peninsula where the airport is located, which is where the doomed aircraft used to takeoff for its trip to Honolulu on the island of Oahu. Between this helicopter and that airport is the place where the aircraft glided to a crash landing in the sea about 400 to 500 yards off of that shoreline near the airport.
Watch closely and you can see two or more tiny helicopters flying below at much lower altitudes as they are proceeding to the survivors in the water to rescue them. The helicopter where this video camera is located is staying at a higher altitude to avoid interfering with or risking collisions with the other helicopters you can see flying below.
The locations of the helicopters below give you some idea of how very far the survivors drifted in the rough seas and currents while awaiting these helicopters to rescue them. They started drifting away from that distant shoreline and now are located far out to sea where these helicopters are flying above them.
See, there is a lot to see in this short video clip.
I see water, an island and a helicopter.
Putting labels on these things adds not one whit of content.
I don’t see a plane, survivors, flotsam, jetsam nor any sign this is other than a sightseeing trip.
That is why a trained rescue professional is invaluable in these life saving situations. Give them some credit.
Signed-Former Trained Rescue Professional
“I don’t see a plane, survivors, flotsam, jetsam nor any sign this is other than a sightseeing trip.”
(Chuckle) Get a new monitor, set of Mk. 1 Eyeballs, or whatever you need, because they are right there in the video as plain as a bunch of white gnats flitting on a potato.
Watch in the center bottom of the filed of view for the two helicopters flying from left to right across that area of the lower screen.
Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) is one of the LEAST communicable bacteriological diseases known to science. In fact, during the nearly 100-year history of the Marine Corps Hospital at Carville, Louisiana, there were just two SUSPECTED cases (none confirmed) of staff getting the disease from patients.
At the beginning of the video freeze the video at about the the 0:30 sec mark. Start at the tip of the peninsula on the left and move to the right to where there is a tall white object sticking up into the air. That is the Kalaupapa Airport. The aircraft took off from the runway by that white object and crashed into the sea nearby where you can see the white surf breaking against the shoreline.
At the 0:16 sec to 0:14 sec remaiing mark, you can see a very little white object with the rotors spinning moving into the lower-center field of view. That is one of the rescue helicopters.
I won’t ask you to read the time on the watch on the survivor’s wrist held high in the air in the sea below (grin).
Yes, but they didn’t believe that when they exiled these patients to this remote locale.
“Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy) is one of the LEAST communicable bacteriological diseases known to science. In fact, during the nearly 100-year history of the Marine Corps Hospital at Carville, Louisiana, there were just two SUSPECTED cases (none confirmed) of staff getting the disease from patients.”
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Apparently none of the nun caregivers on Molokai caught the disease.
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” The only access is by air travel to the Kalaupapa Airport-Lup or by pack mule across those tall mountains you see in the background.”
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Or you can make the difficult trek on foot down the pali(cliff).
I chose to see the peninsula from an overlook.
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There are also the waves crashing on the beach below as the seagulls fly overhead -- meaning something but I'm not sure what.
“There are also the waves crashing on the beach below as the seagulls fly overhead — meaning something but I’m not sure what.”
The two beaches on the right can be seen as the tan pieces of land along the shoreline and surf. The rightmost is where the community of Kalaupapa is located behind that beach. That is where some of the KITV video clips were videorecorded by the news crews and others.
You can get a better idea of the layout by looking at the satellite view on (maps.google.com).
>>That is why a trained rescue professional is invaluable in these life saving situations. Give them some credit.
Signed-Former Trained Rescue Professional<<
True.
If I was to help the professionals would just have another possible victim on their hands...
95% of people have a natural immunity to Hansen's Disease and even those who are not immune only contact it through prolonged exposure. It is not highly contagious.
I have tried to watch it several times (even with the damn annoying commercial which is longer than the video) and I still don’t see anything other than island, water and other helicopter.
This with my glasses on and off (I am nearsighted and can see closer better without my glasses).
Interesting...What is the factor that makes one able to contract Leprosy?
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