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The Hawaiian health official who verified the authenticity of President Obama’s birth certificate died in a small plane crash.

The plane, carrying a pilot and eight passengers, went down Wednesday in the water a half mile off the Hawaiian island of Molokai, the Maui Fire Department said. The lone fatality was Loretta Fuddy, who has served as state health director since January 2011. Tom Matsuda, the interim executive director of Hawaii’s health insurance exchange, confirmed Fuddy’s death.

Fuddy, 65, made national news in April 2011 when she verified the authenticity of certified copies of President Obama’s birth certificate. Obama had requested the release to curb claims by so-called “birthers” that he was born in Kenya and not eligible to be president.

Makani Kai Air President Richard Schuman told Honolulu-based KITV that he spoke with the pilot of the single-engine turboprop Cessna Grand Caravan after the crash.

“What he reported is after takeoff … there was catastrophic engine failure,” Schuman said. “He did the best he can to bring the aircraft down safely and he got everybody out of the aircraft.”

Schuman said the cause of the engine failure had not yet been determined. The National Transportation Safety Board was investigating the crash; NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss said that based on the location of the crash it was unlikely the plane will be recovered.

“Our hearts are broken,” Gov. Neil Abercrombie said in a statement. “Loretta was deeply loved and respected. She was selfless, utterly dedicated and committed to her colleagues in the Department of Health and to the people of Hawaii. Her knowledge was vast; her counsel and advice always given from her heart as much as from her storehouse of experience.”

Matsuda, who worked with Fuddy to set up the state’s Obamacare website, Hawaii Health Connector, called her death “a terrible loss” for the state.

“I worked closely with Director Fuddy on the Affordable Care Act and came to know and respect her as a passionate advocate for public health and a warm, caring human being,” Matsuda said.

The plane went down about a half-mile northwest of Kalaupapa peninsula, which was home to a leper colony until 1969. A handful of patients still live there. The state health director by law remains mayor of part of the peninsula, and Fuddy was visiting the peninsula in that capacity, state Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo said.

Okubo said the department’s deputy director, Keith Yamamoto, also had been booked on the flight.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Melissa McKenzie said a Coast Guard helicopter got three passengers out of the water while Maui fire crews picked up five people. One person swam ashore.

Contributing: Associated Press

https://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/235771871.html?id=235771871

Plane lost power, then glided, Molokai crash survivor says

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Associated Press
POSTED: 09:37 a.m. HST, Dec 13, 2013
LAST UPDATED: 09:43 a.m. HST, Dec 13, 2013
Excerpt:
The crash of a small plane off of Molokai was calm, orderly and none of the passengers seemed to be very distressed or have any major injuries, said a passenger who swam to shore.

C. Phillip Hollstein recalled today that the plane had just taken off from Molokai and was making a turn toward Honolulu when it seemed like something on the plane broke.

“We probably weren’t a minute out,” he said. “It wasn’t real loud or anything. Just a muffled bang. Then we were a glider.”

The plane lost power, he said, and the pilot maneuvered a water landing on the plane’s belly.

….Bobbing in the water, Hollstein noticed the pilot and seven other passengers seemed fine. “I didn’t want to sit out there bobbing, so I figured I’d take a shot at going to the shoreline.”

He guesses the swim to the rugged shoreline took an hour and a half. He was surprised to hear later that one of the passengers, Hawaii Health Director Loretta Fuddy, had later died.

“She was doing fine out of the airplane,” Hollstein said. “Her assistant was really watching her. He was taking care of her.”

40 Responses to “More conflicting evidence: initial reports state that all 9 people survived: one swam to shore, 3 rescued by the helicopter and 5 by Fire rescue, later the story was changed. Passenger C. Phillip Holstein contradicted the reports of her body being the the fuselage, he stated that she was fine when she got out of the plane.”

1. Veritas
   December 13th, 2013 @ 12:24 pm

   Or mightn’t she have been whisked away in the Witness Protection Program?

2. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
   December 13th, 2013 @ 12:27 pm

   so, whose body did they find?

3. moe larry & curly
   December 13th, 2013 @ 12:39 pm

   maybe she left the real birth certificate back in the plane and went to get it ?

4. Veritas
   December 13th, 2013 @ 1:23 pm

   Good question, Dr Orly. The whole event is, however, quite odd indeed!

5. Glasnost
   December 13th, 2013 @ 1:47 pm

   Need to see the body, but I bet she gets cremated, too.

   Something “fishy” is going on…

6. Clark kent
   December 13th, 2013 @ 2:06 pm

   Hmmm…I posted here earlier, but it has disappeared! So…

   I’m wondering if Mr Yamamoto knows more than one would think he knows?

   Or…was she even on the plane? Remember how they lie about most everything?

7. Rod Riddle
   December 13th, 2013 @ 2:11 pm

   Knowing it is a death sentence, who in their right mind is going to conduct the autopsy. You know the Soebarkah clan has already written the report with cause of death before the plane even took off. You think theyre drawing straws at the coroners office?

8. Harry
   December 13th, 2013 @ 2:21 pm

   like Clinton did with George Foster’s death- Obama will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate any strange happenings-and he will be cleared- but it seems to me that not everybody can be kept silent forever-

9. JASON
   December 13th, 2013 @ 2:43 pm

   What is really frightening; if someone sabotaged the plane, they were willing to kill all aboard to get to Loretta Fuddy.

10. Veritas
    December 13th, 2013 @ 3:11 pm

    Doesn’t this seem a lot like the Trailor Brother Case about which none other than Abraham Lincoln penned a semi-fictional account?

    https://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/lincoln.html

11. Charles Midroni
    December 13th, 2013 @ 3:14 pm

    Best to get an order preventing burial

12. Daniel Monroe
    December 13th, 2013 @ 3:21 pm

    Protect yourself Orly.

13. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
    December 13th, 2013 @ 3:22 pm

    how?

14. Barry Bounel
    December 13th, 2013 @ 3:29 pm

    Ahhh Barry Soetoro at it again. You cant make this Stuff up. This is gonna really get wild. We aint seen nothing yet . Lets also talk about Michael Hastings, Breitbart, His Coroner, His 3 Boyfriends he wacked from Church, Phillip Marshal, The big Bamboozle, go to beforeitnews.com for the whole list.

15. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
    December 13th, 2013 @ 3:56 pm

    who is Philip Marshal, who is Big Bambozie?

16. Howard Hues
    December 13th, 2013 @ 4:03 pm

    If I were Taitz, I would grow eyes in my back. She is in legitimate danger now and there is no one that can protect her. At least the president has the Secret Service. Taitz wouldn’t be able to hire enough protection to protect her from the nefarious characters now out to destroy her.

17. Daniel Monroe
    December 13th, 2013 @ 4:16 pm

    You are so close to revealing the truth about this guy that it’s tough to say ‘hide’. Orly, you are a true fearless warrior and patriot. You must follow it through to the end and I don’t think Obama will finish his 2nd term because of impeachment. You are the only one who was willing to pursue the truth and what was obvious although dangerous. And I still think Andrew Breitbart was murdered. The media in this country are all paid off and cowards. I wish to just get within shouting distance from anyone in the Senate. They are what is truly rotten in this country. If I were in your shoes tonight, I would want at least 2 marines living in my house. God Bless Orly.

18. truly
    December 13th, 2013 @ 4:43 pm

    NOBODY WAS INJURED, ALL WERE CALM, PLANE BECAME A GLIDER, NOBODY UPSET.
    AND……… ONE PERSON DIED?
    SHOULD IT EVEN BE CALLED A PLANE “CRASH” WHEN THE PILOT GLIDES THE PLANE SAFELY TO LAND, BUT ON WATER?
    And a passenger is so well that he can swim for over an hour to shore……..

19. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
    December 13th, 2013 @ 4:59 pm

    what is important, is that according to other passengers she was alive and well outside the plane. Why is the regime lying now and saying that she did not get out of the plane and that her body was found in the fuselage? What are they covering up?
    Option 1: they are relocating her just as they relocated CIA agents in order to prevent them from testifying
    Option 2: something caused her to suddenly die after she safely got out of the plane and was safely floating with her life-vest on. What caused her to die? Is it Andrew Breitbart scenario? Sudden death. Also her sister in law died this year as well. I am wondering if she shared any info about the forgery and identity of forger with her relatives and specifically her sister in law which died this year

20. Veritas
    December 13th, 2013 @ 5:14 pm

    Option one sounds correct.

21. Bob Robertson
    December 13th, 2013 @ 5:58 pm

    “They” are coming to get you Oily. Watch your back. You could die just the same way Fuddy did. A loose bolt here, a cut cable there… POOF! No more Oily. thatsallbyebye

    watch. your. BACK!

22. Rosemary
    December 13th, 2013 @ 6:03 pm

    To the ppl of Hawaii: The only thing that can save you now is by going public with what you know. It is imperitive that you come forward for making your information public will help to keep you safe. You know what I mean. This is the turning point.

23. Birdy
    December 13th, 2013 @ 6:33 pm

    In the article you show by Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Associated Press, C. Phillip Holstein claims to have been the person to have swum to the shoreline –

    ‘”….Bobbing in the water, Hollstein noticed the pilot and seven other passengers seemed fine. “I didn’t want to sit out there bobbing, so I figured I’d take a shot at going to the shoreline.”

    He guesses the swim to the rugged shoreline took an hour and a half.’

    But in this article by Gregg K. Kakesako in the Honolulu Start Advertiser, the pilot is identified as the one who swam ashore –

    https://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/235590541.html

    “The Rev. Pat Killilea, pastor of St. Francis Church at Kalaupapa, said he didn’t see the plane hit the water, but watched rescue operations from Kalaupapa’s airport where the survivors were taken.

    Killilea said the pilot swam to shore to get help for the passengers floating offshore.

    “He (pilot) had been able to get the passengers out of the plane wearing their life vests. However, once in the water they were beginning to drift apart and so he decide to swim to shore to get help,” Killilea said this morning in a phone interview. He added, “There was blood on his (pilot’s) chest when he arrived at the airport.”

    Holestein is not the pilot.

24. Paul Jackson
    December 13th, 2013 @ 7:35 pm

    How do you people walk and breathe at the same time?

25. I. Mac Omeedian
    December 13th, 2013 @ 8:25 pm

    We HAD to kill her, Orly. How is it you don’t fucking get that? I don’t worry about telling you this here because I know you’ll never publish it. So the only one who will ever see it is you. You and whatever “authorities” you complain to, who will do nothing to help you as usual.

    We had to kill her. Don’t be a fucking idiot. Keep you nose out of this.

26. Rod Riddle
    December 14th, 2013 @ 12:51 am

    If I were a part of the Fuddy family I would bring my own physician in to observe the entire autopsy procedure.

27. Denise
    December 14th, 2013 @ 5:19 am

    Let me guess…the black box has not been recovered…

28. Denise
    December 14th, 2013 @ 5:21 am

    I’m sure she will be cremated…

29. Jerry G
    December 14th, 2013 @ 6:00 am

    This is Deja Vu all over again. A rerun of the Ron Brown murder but it didn’t go according to script. The plane was supposed to crash on land with all aboard killed. So eight of the passengers were innocent victims? What does it matter to those psychopaths responsible?

30. Thomas
    December 14th, 2013 @ 6:34 am

    The Judge that just Dismissed Doug Vogts attempt to Gather a Grand Jury Investigation into Barry Soetoros aka. Barack Hussein Obama, FORGED Birth Certificate, read The SEALED Affidavit and Told The Administration what was in it. Mrs. Fuddys name Must have been a Big Part of that Affidavit, And it Scared The Shit Out of Jarrett, Bauer, Soetoro. This is my thoughts on Mrs. Fuddys timely Demise.

31. Hidecki Ichibut
    December 14th, 2013 @ 9:34 am

    I find it deeply suspicious that the deputy is Keith Yamamoto. Could he be related to the Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor? Is there another link we are unaware of? I think someone should check into this.

32. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
    December 14th, 2013 @ 10:10 am

    I don’t think so. Yamamoto is a common Japanese name. The last name of the pilot is Nagasaki, also a very common name

33. Davey Crockett
    December 14th, 2013 @ 12:48 pm

    Geez-us! Some more idiot posters…we can read their diatribe. And some of the names are ridiculous for adults!

    The problem here is: who is telling the truth? We have two different stories on who swam ashore. Why? This tells me that we have a plot and it’s now a hidden mystery.

    And if there is a Fuddy on a slab, then, Rod is right. Get a coroner that can be trusted, with the family near by!

    And the family should seek out the other survivors, to find out what really happened!

34. Veritas
    December 14th, 2013 @ 3:22 pm

    Davey, senseless posts appeared at GretaWire blog too when “Birtherism” became the Topic NUMERO UNO.

    Sans doute, Fogbow et al are now as vexed by the increased activity on “OrlyWire” just as on “Gretawire.”

35. js/js
    December 14th, 2013 @ 6:05 pm

    May Loretta, RIP. The Obot thugs surely killed
    her, and Holder AG is laughing at their work.
    Do not rule out poison in this, or toxic chem-
    icals both inside and outside Loretta’s life
    vest, also on her seat butt area, etc. This
    could be why they do NOT want to examine or
    lift up the sunken plane. Very suspicious,
    but well-planned murder. Somewhat similar to
    Wellstone’s in 2002. IMO. We all must be very
    careful–especially Orly & Onaka & Okubo. All
    are in danger now, IMO. Loretta Fuddy, RIP.
    Obot thugs did this murder to you, IMO.

36. Anonymous
    January 3rd, 2014 @ 10:45 am
37. M Wood
    January 20th, 2014 @ 9:31 am

    SERCO and their RFID tag work could trigger heart arrhythmia. Check out Abel Danger for more. SERCO is rotten and involved in more than this. Under investigation by UK Fraud office for over 23million pounds of fraudulent charges. And we still let them run US patent office and military communications networks? WAKE UP people we ARE under attack!
    As for comments re: “conspiracy theorists” Typical Saul Alinksy tactic – attack the messenger and ignore the message!

38. M Wood
    January 20th, 2014 @ 9:32 am
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