FLYJACK

Cooper carried the case in his left hand with his right hand in the case,, That indicates he is right handed. Dominant hand holding the bomb/wire.. He also had cigarette stains on his right hand. if the bomb was fake would he need to keep his hand in the case when he moved to the lav?

Info on the Dan Cooper comic.. It was not published in english. It was published in about 16 languages including in Mexico in Spanish for Latin America, since Cooper was described as Latin/Mexican if he was influenced by the comic that would be the source, not the French version. Hahneman does have a relationship to the publisher Herge but IMO the possibility of the comic being the source for the Dan Cooper name is very very remote. Mexico/Latin America Spanish version vs French. Here is the Dan Cooper comic doc from Canada, it was previously hard to access for Americans.. It is very interesting, use the closed caption to translate the french. I checked and there is no region restriction.

I am up to about 90 Cooper profile points, I am aiming for 100. (Cooper specific) and Kenneth Christiansen still fails miserably, he is not Cooper. It is really clear KC matches virtually nothing and the argument is speculation and hearsay. Nothing but noise. He is one of the worst suspects, at least McCoy is interesting. Something else I noticed,, Hal Williams the NWA clerk noticed Cooper was the only one not joking about the rain in Portland.. The dominant theory is that Cooper wanted to jump in the area. Is it reasonable to plan a jump at night into the rain into a semi-wooded area. He would get wet, dirty and cold. Then in that condition on the ground he would have to make his escape out of the area. He wasn't dressed for PNW jump at night in the rain and it doesn't seem like something to plan. There is no evidence that Cooper's plan when he boarded the plane was to jump in the PNW. Cooper's initial demand was airstairs lowered inflight, not lowered on takeoff. He changed it after the Reno negotiation. Why change, unless your LZ changed. Cooper also required the refuelling to be at a small airport. That is unnecessary if his initial plan was to jump in the PNW.. and Cooper was not dressed for the weather. But, how does he expect to escape on the ground wet, cold and dirty. Where is he going to go unnoticed, he would probably need a change of clothes. There is no way he could have an accomplice close on the ground without precisely directing the planes path. It doesn't make sense for this to be his initial plan. I know PNW weather,, you don't go out in a cold rainy November night without being dressed for it.

Yup, notice that huge Adam's apple.. no way that is missed, he was not Cooper. Top tier Cooper sleuths that know the evidence agree.. Cooper newbies and those with lower level knowledge lack the discrimination and fall for it.. Calame and Rhodes must have known he wasn't Cooper when they wrote that book. It is obvious.

McCoy wasn't Cooper,, the ears, the hair, the age, he does not have thin lips and a protruding lower lip.. he is not Latin/Mexican swarthy and dark eyes. A far better suspect than Kenneth Christiansen for sure but also not Cooper.

He was seen in class the morning of the day before the hijacking, he was home for an early thanksgiving and went to Vegas that evening. Part 50 p 141 They never stated his location for the 24th.

Ulis is at it again, creating a new narrative building on a foundation of conjecture. First, he repeats the 100% false claim that Cooper's tie was dated 1962-64,, it was spring 1964 - spring 65. His claim is easily proven false. He is embarrassing himself. The tie particles.. pure titanium wasn't that rare, it was even used on the 727, electronics, dentistry etc. it could have come from many sources. Sand and salt for de-icing was used all over the US and Canada, even California mountains. Industrial salt was not only used for de-icing. Look up halite. Since the #2 engine and exhaust was right above the open 727 doorway, some of those metal particles may have even come from the plane itself. An aluminum spiral could have been picked up on the plane or many places. If the tie was dropped on the floor, laid down in the lav or used to wipe prints, it may have picked up particles or not. I did find SS/Ti parts on the 727 near the lav.. The tie dates to about 1964/65, that means 7 years to accumulate those particles through multiple environments, some may have even been added on the plane or post NORJAK in the FBI storage.. The combination of environments for those particles is virtually infinite.

McCoy made the call from the Tropicana Vegas, no record found of him registered there. part 27 page 331/332 part 26 p 269 part 25 p 35, 36, 107, 108, 305 part 24 p 459 part 58 page 39

If the crew knew when they passed the PDX/Battle Ground Vortac and they claimed Cooper jumped further north that is crucial. They would know if Cooper jumped (bump) before or after the Vortac. This makes the Columbia River landing argument impossible without completely shifting the argument. and there was a report of Hahneman's compass found discarded where he landed..

I still have a question for Robert99, pilots or pseudo-aviators.. When a jet passes a Vortac does a crew know it. It seems to me that they would absolutely know when they passed a Vortac but I am not a pilot. The crew believed Cooper jumped further North of Battle Ground Vortac when the pressure bump occurred. The crew also knew where Portland was. So, if the crew knew when they passed the Battle Ground Vortac they would know if Cooper jumped before or after that point. They claim well before. This ends the current argument about Cooper jumping into the Columbia River. However, Columbia River jump proponents do have only one move left, to shift the bump and shift the argument. To claim the bump experienced and reported by the pilots was not Cooper jumping and that he jumped many minutes later. Beside there being no evidence for a Columbia landing and contradicted by the sled test results, there was no second bump felt. The pilots report the "pressure bump" as the last one. Ultimately, all the evidence supports the FBI LZ, roughly between the Lewis R and Battle Ground.

Blevins, you are on ignore,, You have proven to have a very loose relationship with reality, logic and reason. I am not interested in anything you say. KC was not Cooper. If you don't like what I say then put me on ignore.

Darren's new Vortex podcast has landed.. https://thecoopervortex.podbean.com/e/db-cooper-never-confessed-to-the-crime-tessa-d-amico/ I didn't realize Tessa lives right in my neighbourhood, Vancouver BC area.. does she have a Canadian accent? She also rejected Kenneth Christiansen.. seems everyone has rejected him. Tessa, missed Maillardville, part of New Westminster BC, it was a French Canadian blue collar enclave with lots of ex-military. Everyone was fluent in french and english and many spoke english with no accent. 5 hours drive from Portland. I researched it long ago,, if Cooper was Canadian he was from there. But after years of research I don't think Cooper was Canadian. He was Latin/Mexican and the Dan Cooper comic was published in Mexico in Spanish for Latin America. If the comic was the inspiration for the name, it was most likely from there. Though, I think it is a very remote possibility. One theory I have been working on is that Cooper came up to Vancouver BC after the hijacking stayed at the YMCA, then flew across to Toronto and crossed back into the Eastern US.. I never liked the idea of Cooper flying within the US right after the hijacking to escape the PNW (as some have claimed), far too risky. He could fly across Canada under the radar. Back then it was much easier to cross the border, not like today. If Cooper lost all or most of the money he wouldn't have to worry about that. Putting together a depository of info is tough.. there are actually very few facts and many of those are disputed even by Cooper veterans, that is where all the conflicts emerge. Even the FBI files conflict within themselves. Many people pushing suspects refuse to accept clear evidence that contradict their suspect. Nobody said a tan or a wig. I have put together a list of about 70 facts and (mostly FBI) profile points just relating to Cooper to compare to suspects.. just direct Cooper profile stuff, not the money or other info. A suspect profile. Looking at it, it is very apparent why there are so many suspects, if you knock out a few of the basic facts with excuses almost anyone can be made to fit. The more you match the better the suspect. Most of the Cooper suspects really fail miserably, some we don't have enough info for,, but Hahneman is a near perfect match.

Rataczak dvd back up on Ebay... it is 1.5 hrs long. https://www.ebay.com/itm/303269552131?hash=item469c462003:g:UiEAAMXQPd1RHGOI\ He specifically said it was not Kenneth Christiansen. One very interesting thing I missed the first time listening to the DVD was that Cooper rejected several refuelling destinations offered after they realized they could not reach his initial demand of Mexico nonstop. First San Francisco was rejected saying it was too big an airport, then he rejected both Los Angeles and San Diego also saying too big an airport.. Folding in the FBI document.. Cooper suggested Phoenix, that was rejected by the crew, He then indicated the plane could reach Yuma but preferred Reno.. they agreed to Reno. Cooper specifically wanted to refuel at a small airport, Why.. if his initial plan was to jump in the PNW it wouldn't matter. Why argue for a small airport unless you expected to be on the plane when it landed. I believe his initial plan was to jump South of the US border but changed his mind and jumped in the PNW.. if so, Cooper did not jump where he had planned, had no ground help and no escape plan.

more... crew could see the lights of Portland and other distinctive lights in the area. Would a pilot know when they passed a Vortac.. like Battle Ground. It seems that passing the Battle Ground vortac would be something the crew would aware of,,

Dan Gryder made three critical errors,, He succumbed to the Vortex's confirmation bias. Everyone struggles with this one. He did not have adequate case knowledge. Inexcusable. Finally, he missed that part time super secret agent Blevins already solved the case for the FBI causing them to close it out of embarrassment.

Those images make the point.. Portland and Vancouver blend to make one glow... Rataczak who was flying the plane admitted he knew where Portland was (in Dan's vid) yet claimed Cooper was gone by then and believed he jumped much further North.. If Cooper jumped over the Columbia River then Rataczak would have known it. That is a big hurdle for the Columbia River jump crowd to overcome. Then there is the diatom issue. They would have to discredit Rataczak.

Ouch, Robert99 comes in hot... Blevins does classic projection. Lots of drama in the vortex. Kenneth Christiansen is not Cooper because he doesn't fit the evidence and there is nothing to indicate he was Cooper. Blevins ignores the facts, manufactures excuses and relies on unreliable/unproven immaterial "witness" claims. It is not an opinion Blevins, the evidence rejects KC. and I have Blevins on ignore so whatever he says in response about KC is nonsense.

Eric Ulis throws down, comes in hot on Dan Gryder... Ulis has the date for the tie wrong, not 62-64,, it was 64-65 but his point is still valid. and Ulis still gets the money packets wrong.. they likely arrived on TBAR as one rubber banded bundle just as they went to Cooper.

Ouch, looks like Dan Gryder isn't getting the support of the vortex for his McCoy solve (it isn't) and is lashing out with the same ridiculous talking point part time super secret agent Blevins throws out when somebody points about the facts of the case.. If you don't accept my Cooper solve it is because you don't want it solved.. nonsense. McCoy's kids have no first hand knowledge of the hijacking, they gave opinions with no evidence, probably because McCoy doesn't fit the actual evidence, like Reca, Peterson and poor Kenneth Christiansen. Baseless claims by people 40-50 years later have very little credibility, even if they believe it. The best part of Dan's video was the statement from Rataczak that he identified Portland and Cooper was gone by then. That supports and confirms earlier reports from the crew that Cooper jumped before Vancouver.. the glow of Portland/Vancouver but Dan spins it to claim Cooper jumped over the Columbia. Wrong dude. It shows Cooper didn't jump into the Columbia. Contrary to some arguments... Rataczak knew where Portland was and claimed Cooper jumped much further North. The other argument by some is that the oscillations and bump were separated by a substantial amount of time. No evidence for this and for Cooper to have jumped over the Columbia there would have to be two pressure bumps and the crew only reported the one.. Oscillations are pressure fluctuations visually represented by the needle on the pressure gauge while an extreme fluctuation is felt as a pressure bump. A pressure bump is also an extreme oscillation on the gauge. It is absolutely clear, the evidence supports a jump in the FBI area, approximately the Lewis River to about Battleground. IMO, within that zone, Heisson area is the most likely LZ. Here is an image of the lights/glow... obviously it would be less in 1971 but Vancouver and Portland would blend together as one area.. A Columbia River jump would be in the middle of those lights/glow, a Columbia R jump is not supported by the evidence.

Drew Beeson throws down, comes in hot.... says McCoy had a lisp and N Carolina accent..

There is a backstory here.. https://www.deseret.com/1992/2/21/18969058/mccoy-s-widow-admits-helping-in-72-hijacking "However, Wilkinson did prohibit the sale of any movie rights on the book if - only if - the movie would include four allegations in the book McCoy is currently protesting. Those allegations are: Karen McCoy threatened to throw her infant daughter under a passing truck, McCoy dated an FBI agent while married to Richard McCoy, she drove a getaway car used by Richard McCoy in the Provo hijacking and she conspired with the FBI to have her husband killed." https://uspa.org/p/Article/skyjackerthe-richard-mccoy-jr-story "In the tiny restroom, McCoy changed from his brown suit and shoes to the flashy “mod” clothes of the era: a green flowered shirt, an untied blue tie, a red-and-blue-striped sports jacket and black-and-white saddle shoes. He applied dark-toned makeup to his face and neck. He also donned a wig, since he knew he had to disguise his most notable feature: his ears. (He had been teased about them relentlessly; his nickname was Dumbo, even at the university.) In order to hide them, he wore his sister-in-law’s elastic headband under the wig. Unfortunately, the wig, recently dyed black, was stiff and unruly. As he tried to plaster it down with water and hairspray, black liquid ran down his face and onto his makeup."

Just like Kenneth Christiansen, the evidence does not support McCoy.. it mostly rejects him. If you reject all the facts of the case then you can make almost anybody into Cooper. Stews told the sketch artist Cooper had thin lips and a protruding lower lip, McCoy does not. Cooper had dark eyes, McCoy had blue eyes. Cooper had a full head of hair, curly/wavy/marceled, McCoy does not. No scars were noticed for Cooper, McCoy has scars on his fingers and left side of nose (the side witnesses saw). McCoy had large protruding ears, Cooper did not. McCoy left fingerprints all over his UAL hijacking, those prints did not match any from Norjak. McCoy left notes behind, Cooper took them all. Typewriter was matched to McCoy's home. His handwriting was also matched. Pictures of McCoy were shown to UAL witnesses and identified as the hijacker, Norjak witnesses rejected images of McCoy. Besides smoking 7/8 cigarettes Cooper had smoke stains on his right hand, McCoy did not smoke. Cooper was described as Latin/Mexican in features and characteristics, McCoy was not. Cooper was described as 45-50 with loose skin/turkey neck. McCoy was 28. It was not only McCoy's wife that told the FBI he was home for thanksgiving. Denise never said he was home on the 25th then changed her story, she said he was home for thanksgiving but she wasn't sure which day they had it. McCoy's tie and clip were not matched to Cooper's, the claim was that he had a similar one.

Funny, the case for McCoy is flawed but still far better than Kenny Christiansen. McCoy actually hijacked a 727 and jumped and most people will be swayed by his kids claims... We'll see if they try to monetize it. They seem sincere but people do lie all the time.

Recalls a tie and tie claps similar...

FBI - Witness McCoy at home 10AM Thanksgiving day..