1. AE and FN's injuries are stated in the notebook.
No injuries are stated in the notebook. We interpret some of the transcribed entries to be references to injuries.
2. A landing/rollout impact is probable cause for same.
Possible, yes. Probable, in my opinion, is going too far. Having spent time on that reef I can tell you that there is plenty of opportunity to get hurt.
3. If Nessie was that cause, then the kinetic energy of the decelerating airframe could have hammered the gear hard into the crevice rather than simply levering it in by tide action as the TIGHAR video shows.
Yes, that could have happened or the gear could have simply washed into a groove after it separated from the aircraft and gotten hung up.
4. The gear was planted in so hard that it persisted in situ for months (Bevington photo).
That appears to be true, but how can we possibly know what it takes to get the gear stuck firmly enough to stay there for three months?
5. Something caused the Electra to make that impact. Wave action is a probable cause and heavy yawing in an attempt to veer landward possibly caused the gear to hit sideways.
I agree that wave action is the most likely cause of aircraft movement sufficient to cause the gear to collapse.
None of that seems any less probable than the TIGHAR video, only a reposition of the events.
Agreed. There are lots of possibilities. The folly is in thinking we can do anything more than try to narrow the possibilities.
Otherwise you have defend the case that Nessie and the injuries were 2 separate events when only one is evident.
If Nessie is landing gear wreckage and if there were injuries, why couldn't they be two separate incidents?