Andrade1812

False dichotomy.

At any time the crew could have flown over the ocean and they could have taken Coooper to any airport, he had no idea what was going on and he made no attempt to direct the flight after the Reno decision was made. Which I believe says a lot about Cooper, and that he might not be the mastermind we thought he was.

My interpretation of that exchange is very different. Cooper appeared to reject any refueling spot that would allow the plane to fly over the coast. By picking Reno he forces the plane to stay over dry land and thus avoids a water landing. Whether Cooper wanted to jump into Mexico at first, and then changed his mind because of the fuel stop, I can't say for certain. The getaway part of Norjak looks to me to be a product of very poor planning on Cooper's part.

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No kidding. I wonder if he/she is a professional profiler.

Gunther could not travel into the future and find a career that was a good fit for Tom Kaye's findings vis-a-vis tie particles. I have two books by Gunther where he describes his research process and he never mentions FOIA, I don't think he would have patience or interest in wading through a bureaucracy like that. Not that it matters, without his original notes, and without the DNA on the envelope, his story is not falsifiable (in my opinion). Maybe it will be possible in the future to wade through the census and find some best-fits to investigate.

Does anyone have flight timetables for other airlines into and out of PDX for this week/month?

Is there any evidence he was in Vegas in the days before the hijacking? I remember the FBI thought he was in SLC the day of the hijacking but couldn't prove it.

Fly, I remember something in the files about the FBI trying to figure out if McCoy was at a hotel in Vegas, do you know where I could find that?

There was no new info in the video, except perhaps that McCoy could have seen the Dan Cooper comic when he was in Germany. Otherwise, members of McCoy's extended family have been claiming he was Cooper for many years.

Fly, can you post that part of the transcript that shows the altimeter reading at 2016?

I went lookong to see if anyone had take a selfie with Bill, and didn't see any. I didn't get to talk to him, and only stood next to him while walking past him, so maybe I'm wrong? I would have put him as taller than me and shorter than my 6'5 father.

He was taller than me, I'm 6'1"

Does anyone have information on how fast the Columbia currents move at flood stage? And bonus points if we can get the currents during the 72 and 74 floods.

Do we have a log of the available flights out of PDX that a Cooper suspect *could* have taken out of the area after the hijacking? In particular, flights to Salt Lake City or Vegas. Apropos nothing in particular...

Fly, I remember you were talking about dredge spoils that might have come to the Tena Bar area from near the Lewis River confluence, do you have a source document for that?

You knew the author of Ha Ha Ha and didn't tell me?

Anonymous had a lot more information to share, but we were on a panel with 7 total people, so he never had a chance to give a full account. I think he mentioned everything was on his blog.

Maybe, I doubt it tho. Sounded like he hadn't spoken with the FBI for years

He absolutely refused to give definitive answers. Ron Forman asked him about B Dayton and gave him a photo. He said he realized he couldn't help anymore sometime in the 80s

No, he even described how, over time, he had less and less of an ability to separate good from bad matches in photo lineups.

Bill Mitchell said Cooper looked older than any of the sketches, and he definitely affirmed the "turkey gobble" of skin under Cooper's chin. Cliff Ammerman affirmed the flight path and suggestes V23 was the only route 305 could have taken given Cooper's flight configuration.

Tom's presentation on the diatoms was incredible. Hopefully it was taped and will be available soon. Tom is now looking for a source of the salt found on the tie, he believes that will be the key.

By midafternoon, lots of people were gone. The last two speaker segments were sparsely attended. I would wager that was when the picture was taken. And it makes sense people started to leave, even I was exhausted at that point. A one day event might have been better. I was told there were 200 tickets sold with 20 speaker passes, and that the theatre peaked at 160 people in the seats on Saturday. There were maybe 40 people left for the final speaker on Sunday. If I had known it was going to be a topic of debate, I would have snapped a picture of the audience.

Attendance on Saturday was good. The audience on Sunday was a little less. I counted over 100 people on Sunday when I got there, and that was after the bigfoot people left. (Sunday was always going to be a challenge, competing with the NFL is tough) It was a two day event with 6 hours of programming each day, people were coming and going. Tom Kaye's speech and Bill Mitchell's interview had the highest attendance.