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Cooper rejects the coast three times (SF/LA/SD). Cooper suggests and/or accepts Reno/Yuma/Phoenix. All coastal airports rejected. Only inland airports (all directly south) were acceptable/suggested. Hmmm...I wonder why. Maybe it's the size of the airport, although you won't really expect Cooper to say "sorry I'm going to jump out of the back here soon so I don't want the plane going near the coast so please just fly due south over Portland." The evidence aligns with the, rather obvious conclusion, that Cooper didn't want the coast. Further, his 10k ft configuration means they can't go east over the mountains. There's only one way the plane can go...south. And what's south...farmland north of Portland. And the farmland has lights, unlike the forest above it. And what does Cooper do...he waits almost a half and hour while flying over the dark forest before he jumps right at the first metro lights of the farmland. It's all to much to be random. It's a plan and it worked.

While being completely oblivious to the Chinese government platform he's on.

I was laughing so hard when I saw this I just had to post it.

Who is GC? When the aircraft was sitting on the ground in Seattle it was already on V-23. When it took off, it passed within a few hundred feet of the Seattle VORTAC which was located between the southern ends of the two Seattle runways. V-23 is the segment between the Seattle VORTAC and the Malay Intersection. From the Malay Intersection V-23 goes to the Battleground VORTAC and then continues south from there. Why go further west when the crew didn't know if they had enough fuel to make it to Reno until they were in the Portland area. That is why the crew was passing fuel flow information to the performance engineers in Minneapolis until they were assured that they could make it to Reno.

You know you're old when... You Google search "memory loss" and are surprised to find that all of the links have already been clicked.

I’m really sorry Wendy. Feel free to vent or reach out anytime and please remember to take time for yourself.

That’s an unbelievably hard, near impossible one to deal with. When nothing makes sense how can you know what to say? I’m hoping for you, and believing you have the heart and tools to make it through.

Of course - Putin is everything Trump wants to be in life. He's richer, more powerful, better at embezzling and wrote the book on transforming a democracy(ish) into a one-man authoritarian state. Trump meeting Putin is like a teenage girl meeting Taylor Swift.