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.
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.