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That is another issue,, I did an analysis for all the times vs distances between plots and found no speed anomaly over the average,, that means that the missing timestamp is irrelevant. It isn't really missing. It is the imprecision in the plots that caused a missing time not an error. If a time plot were completely missing the speed would be messed up. The distance between plots is not equidistant based on speed as you'd expect, or be very close, it isn't. That means those time plots are not precise but have a variation. A rounding off,, clearly they don't include the seconds. However they were converted to draw this map, they were rounded to the minute. The 8:04 plot just got lost in the conversion rounding process... the times after are not out by a minute less. Regardless, I have always used a 1 minute error for that map.

Makes sense to me.. he found a "little bob" that wasn't the autopilot because it wasn't on. He thought it was due to his belief it was on autopilot. The FDR does not distinguish the "little bob" as autopilot kicking in, Soderlind was assuming because he thought it was on autopilot and the crew wouldn't feel it. I am sure it is in there, look for degrees, maybe 3 degrees.. or something like that. I don't have time right now to scan the vid.. will look later.

I don't subscribe to that theory.. The times are radar sweeps that are rounded to the minute.. the missing time isn't really missing, it is a rounding anomaly. I did an analysis of all the timing marks and distances and they all average out. In other words, the times are correct to within a 1 minute error.. the 8:04 is missing due to rounding not that the times were recorded wrong from then on.

Soderlind said on autpilot the crew wouldn't feel the "little bob".. It wasn't on autopilot. IMO, the "little bob" was Cooper arriving at the end of the stairs.. causing the plane to pitch slightly. I believe Rataczak said the plane pitched in the NWA presentation.. He also said that Cooper "took leave" about 25 miles North of Portland,, same phrasing as in newspaper article.

Railroad,, I already answered.

I just grabbed a random map in my file.. But, 8:10 is at the 2010 mark.. 8:11 is at 2011,, 2009 is further North I think this is correct.

Rataczak said he was hand flying the plane.. and he felt Cooper and the plane pitch slightly. Soderlind said the "little bob" wouldn't be felt on autopilot.. The point is it was on the FDR,, that was most likely when Cooper was at the bottom of the stairs as extended as they could be. Rataczak adjusted the pitch. In 1996, Rataszak said he told ATC the hijacker took leave.. didn't mention shrimp boats but he did indicate that he thought cooper might have jumped aka "took leave". "Shrimp boats" could have been an embellishment but he has said he told ATC Cooper took leave. There is a newspaper article from even earlier that uses "took leave" phrase as well. I take his comment about not marking the location as they didn't mark the location themselves... 1996.. I have no reason to doubt this. Rataczakleave1996.mov EDIT<<< Here Nov 26 1971... hijacker "took leave" of us 25 miles north of here (Portland)

Railroad.

After analyzing all available evidence,, my view with 90% confidence.. 7:42 air stairs unlocked/released but not dropping. Cooper complains he can't get stairs down, pilot slows down plane. 8:05 Last comm with Cooper over interphone.. everything OK. 8:09-10 little bob on FDR, is Cooper at end of stairs causing adjustment. Rataczak hand flying plane feels Cooper on stairs and plane dip. 8:12 +/- 1 minute depending on timing device, Cooper leaves the plane. Crew sees oscillations become rapidly increase on gauge culminating in an extreme oscillation felt as the "pressure bump". Rataczak says “mark your shrimp boat”, not caught on tape due to wrong frequency. 5-10 minutes later. About 8:16-17 Rataczak calls Soderlind over the suburbs of Portland. They had not reached Portland. DZ.. The W/SW wind used by the FBI was an estimate, the wind was shifting between SW and SE in the area.. there is NO accurate wind data for Cooper's place and time of the jump. Therefore, the drift could have been slightly East or West of the flightpath. The map we have is accurate to 1 mile. The FBI searched on the East side.

Both had redactions, both use the term Pertaining to...

Robert, the Seattle redactions have been solved.. The FBI made it clear Nov 30, 1971. It was edited to EXCLUDE all traffic of Northwest Airlines, except that pertaining to the hijacked Flight 305. If you want to make an argument for the WFP the tape redactions are not a premise.

Seattle teletype edits aka redactions were NOT PERTAINING to NORJAK. Subject of Transcription Air-Ground communications "pertaining to" the incident to Northwest Airlines Flight 305

We don't know if Larson recalculated the flightpath, that would be an assumption at this point. He took all the data and calculated an updated DZ,, now, did he just use the 1973 computer updated path or have anything to do with creating it?? What we know is that the updated path in 1973 was very close to Spangler's with a small area outside requiring searching. So, the updated computer generated path was close, we just don't know if Larson had anything to do with it.

GEOREF is less accurate,,, the Spangler map was later updated with lat/long using a computer to be more accurate.. So, the SAGE raw data must be more accurate than GEOREF, in other words GEOREF was only used to present it on a physical map with the plotted points. GEOREF isn't a typical military system, they use MGRS which is similar.

That has been a black hole of knowledge... The data had to be converted to GEOREF to manually plot the map. The military uses MGRS.. or lat/long..

yup, is somebody going to contact him,, I found 2 phone numbers.

He was alive March 2022..

This is very very interesting.... I found a comment written last year by a retired AF Major Gary Larson.. He was given all the data and asked by the FBI to compute a DZ for Cooper.. NO, IT WASN"T ANYWHERE NEAR CLE ELUM. I did a quick search and kept getting the cartoonist.. but there was one possible hit in Minnesota..

Gray had it in his book as well.. "another pair of F-106" .. maybe from the news article.

What is weird is the Air Force spokesman from McChord said that two F106s from California joined... never heard that before.

Apparently there were FOUR F-106s... Two from McChord (dropped off) and two from California joined..

I don't think the F-102s were part of the SAGE system which could direct control and fire from jets.. That doesn't mean they weren't tracked by radar.. SAGE tracked everything. The F-102s didn't intercept 305 until after the Columbia River. The F-106s turned back and the F-102s followed to Reno. You had SAGE, AF and ATC tracking the planes. Obviously, we don't have the SAGE primary data, it is military stuff that needs to be deciphered. There is nothing mysterious here. The Reca narrative uses doubt to create a grand conspiracy, you can do that with anything.. If everything is a lie, they can make up anything, there is nothing to check. They want people to believe everyone involved in the Cooper hijacking is lying and in real time comms... vs Carl/Reca's account.. It is beyond tin foil hat stuff. This Reca nonsense is just making a mockery of the Cooper case. Here, Reca was with Joan in August 1970.. in Michigan, in Lexington where Joan's brother lived using "Peca". They just made up the Reca timeline. They made it all up.

I can't remember,,, With over 9000 files in my Cooper case folder I am losing track of things..

I have some other search HQ images..

Besides SAGE and the AF The chase planes also had 305 on radar.... ATC had it on radar... The general V-23 path south to Red Bluff then Reno is not disputable..