John Paul Johnston, executive director of the Divers Institute of Technology, said the plane is likely in pieces and drifting deep in currents and countercurrents. “Every minute that ticks by when the Navy is not out there with its sonar and its experienced divers means evidence lost, and that means these families won’t get closure without that wreckage,” Brodkowitz said. She said the plane needs to be found with sonar.
I don’t understand why the Navy is not out there,” said Seattle aviation attorney Alisa Brodkowitz, who litigated previous seaplane crashes.
“This is wreckage that needs to be located immediately and pulled up immediately. The area where the floatplane went down was mostly quiet on Tuesday, with only a Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife dive boat in the area. “Was there some kind of structural failure that happened so suddenly that there was absolutely nothing the pilot could do? Because it appears this airplane hit the ocean totally out of control,” said Bangs.īangs said among the things investigators will look at is whether the pilot was incapacitated, if the plane struck a bird or drone and how well the plane was maintained. She said she looked at the FlightAware flight tracker data and the plane plummeted 700 feet into the water. Kathleen Bangs is a former commercial and floatplane pilot.
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