Missing in Molokai

In 1995, an Air Force test pilot’s Osprey tiltrotor helicopter is sabotaged and crashes in the Pacific Ocean. The co-pilot’s body is found in the partly submerged plane, but the pilot is nowhere to be found. An extensive air search finds no one, and the pilot is presumed to be lost at sea.

A local fisherman off the coast of Molokai, Hawaii, rescues an unconscious survivor on a raft weeks later, barely holding onto his life. When he is revived in a Molokai hospital nearly a month later, he suffers from total amnesia and has no identification on him. For the next twenty-nine years, he lives alone on Molokai, still suffering from memory loss and surviving on seasonal farm work and occasional runs as a tour guide on the island. He is known simply as Whitey.

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