[WhiskeyX]

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.

[freedumb2003]

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.

[Mears]

” 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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[Uncle Chip]

See, there is a lot to see in this short video clip.

There are also the waves crashing on the beach below as the seagulls fly overhead -- meaning something but I'm not sure what.

[Straight Vermonter]

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.

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.