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San Francisco Examiner.. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/461838093/ Not there.. There are 3 airstair lights in the cockpit and the light comes on when the lever is moved from the "up" detent.. it doesn't make sense for it to go off then on when the stairs rebound.. Could be newspaper vague language or more than one of the lights was noted by the crew. I'll keep looking.

Robert, You have said the airstair light flashed.. Where is that info from?

The early 727-100's had a button on top of the airstair lever. The unlock light came on when the lever was moved from its detent, not when the stairs actually dropped. Another light came on when the lever was in the down detent. Tina was in the cockpit for the 7:42 light, she said a red light, it is actually amber but close enough. The crew indicated around 8:00 Cooper got the stairs down. They refer to a light indicating stairs lowered... It may be, and this is speculation, that there were two different lights noted. The first light may have been the movement of the lever out of the detent, but not the lowering of the stairs.. if Cooper did not push the button he may may not have been able to get the lever to the full open detent. That may be where Cooper struggled. We need to know more about the precise real world operation of the stair lever and the lights.

Hicks placard close up.. Does this look like it was in the woods for seven years? no dirt, no stains, edges are crisp.. It looks "fresh"..

The FBI questioned an expert and the drift could have been two to three thousand feet to 5 miles.. depending on chute deployment. Heisson store is 4.5 miles from the flight path between the 8:12 and 8:13 mark.

The airstair light comes on when the lever is moved from the detent position, not when the stairs actually move.. If Cooper moved the lever from its detent but didn't push the button the stairs would not have lowered.. and light would have come on. This suggest that Cooper got the stairs down about 8PM. That would reconcile a light on at 7:42 and this document. I noticed the interior ceiling panel is hanging down in this image. That might have been a result of the plane search but ?? ceiling panel from another 727

Cooper opened the stairs at 8 PM,,, that was after the plane passed Cinebar. Shutter corrected me, first light noted on at 7:42 The 727 has an airstairs unlocked light, we don't know what the door opening was. IMPORTANT- A RED LIGHT INDICATES AIRSTAIRS OPEN BUT NOT LOCKED UP OR DOWN. AN AMBER LIGHT INDICATES AIRSTAIR LEVER IN RAISING POSITION. A GREEN LIGHT INDICATED DOWN AND LOCKED Here are docs about the damage to the plane. They had the damage reports. "Minor damage to panels" The side skirts NOTE, There was no damage reported for the activation of the "emergency release".. it wasn't pulled.

The ventral stairs fully opened via gravity (weight)... not hydraulics. The wind kept them from fully opening. I found the doc..

Looks like it the same part... metal step assembly part intact, NOT NORJAK

and the Vortex never lets you leave.. This sounds like the Cinebar part,, identified and rejected by the FBI. But it is dated 1973, the other doc is dated 1975, Either the FBI filed it twice, the Boeing employee submitted it twice (a hoax?) or two parts were found.. (neither from NORJAK)

Alice thought Cooper's sunglasses were prescription...

Shutter, when you look at the wind data it was generally the same direction but different speeds at levels.. I only used Toledo as an example that it was from the S.. I never claimed to know the wind at the Placard location... I am claiming that Eric and Robert99 do not know the wind and have made an assumption from an out of context estimate. They even claim Tom K's data supports them and it doesn't in any way.. It amazes me that none of you have actually asked Eric or Robert for the source of the wind data used at the Placard find,,, there isn't any. The drift is BS. Now Eric is still claiming the part found was the skirt, he is making it up, he doesn't know that. The part was 8" x 40" directly above the stairs, that does NOT match the skirt or fragment of it. Would a fragment happen to be that size and have a part number, doubtful. It matches a part right above the end of the airstairs, a part that was not missing from NORJAK. Eric's claim that the Cinebar part is from NORJAK is an opinion, a very poor one. Eric claims Boeing confirmed the placard was inside next to the bulkhead door.. BS.. there is no room for it there, either Eric is full of it or there was a misunderstanding. The FBI said "NO PROOF" from NORJAK and it could have fallen form any passing 727 after they investigated and had the blueprints. Nobody has ever confirmed that NORJAK ever had that placard. The FBI concluded "NO PROOF" but Eric claims it is a fact. Eric claims facts that are really weak opinions.. Wind from Portland and Salem was an "ESTIMATE" between 8-9 for the LZ.. and the direction is fairly constant from the surface up.. This estimate does not even apply to the placard location or time.

Eric claims Tom Kaye's updated wind data was used... "For the 100th time, the FBI winds were an ESTIMATE (FBI WORD) based on an average over an hour from 8-9 from Portland and Salem data. Portland is about 40 miles away and Salem about 70 miles.. This is far from the Placard location. There is no data for the Placard area. The closest is Toledo which had wind from the S at 8:00.. even Portland had wind from SE at 7 PM. Seattle wind was SSE at 8 PM. Tom Kaye's wind balloon data doesn't really help.. SALEM and W of SEATTLE, not even close." Tom K.. The two closest locations were Salem just south of Portland and Quillayute Bruce said was just west of Seattle. They launch twice a day at 5pm and 5am so that is the data we have. I had him pull a second random day Nov 11 for comparison and you can see that the winds then were actually east near the ground. Nov 24 looks pretty consistent all the way down but seems to be more southerly than we had estimated. Now you can do a proper analysis. TOM KAYE This updated data is irrelevant to the placard find location.. it even suggest a more southerly direction... but Eric and Robert99 use it as evidence.. IT IS NOT. Ask them for the wind data at the placard location,, they don't have it, they made it up. The FACT is the winds throughout the area were shifting from SE to SW between 7-9... There is NO wind DATA for the placard location at the time the plane was near.

Eric Ulis still using his opinion as evidence.. "perhaps you can take a stab at how the skirt and placard ended up in the woods. The question no one has yet to answer." I have answered it, some of it for over a year... Shutter has taken a shot. Eric's false claims. The Cinebar part was never identified as the piece of the damaged the skirt as Eric claims. It was described as 8" x 40" which matches exactly the description and location of the part right above the end tip of the 727 airstairs.. that part is shown in the sled test images and the FBI said no part that size was missing.. The Cinebar part being from NORJAK is nil. Hick's Placard.. The FBI stated there was "NO PROOF", IT COULD HAVE COME FROM ANY PASSING 727 and it was FROM THE OUTSIDE. This was AFTER they had done their investigation and had the blueprints. The Hick's Placard does not match the interior of the 727-100 optional emergency release system. NORJAK was never confirmed to even have that Placard. The Hick's placard coming from NORJAK is extremely unlikely. Further, Eric and Robert99 claim they know the wind at the Placard location and that proves the western flight path, they don't. The FBI admitted the wind was an ESTIMATE for Cooper's LZ.. based on over an hour time span (8-9) from Portland and Salem data. Far from the Placard location. Even if the Hick's Placard came from NORJAK (which is doubtful) the wind drift analysis is a gross assumption. Also, the placard looks too "fresh" to be in the woods for seven years.. no dirt, no stains absolutely clean. The tears look like it was installed above rivets, those are outside not inside the aircraft. The Placard was found within the error of the path on the map. Factoring the map error it WAS NOT WEST.. Further, a second Placard was found from a 727... The "evidence" that Eric and Robert99 claim prove/support a Western Flight Path isn't fact. It is gross conjecture and layered assumptions. Nothing they claim or has been disclosed in this case undermines the generally accepted central flight path.

BREAKING,, Anonymous intel officials have confirmed that the Western Flight Path is the hallmark of Russian disinformation.... Cooper's laptop was planted..

The Cinebar part found was 8" x 40" directly above the rear stairs door with a part number.. that doesn't match the broken pieces of the skirt. This photo is interesting, it shows the sled test,,, the part right at the tip/end of the stairs is about 8" x 40". It is not missing and the FBI said no part that size was missing from NORJAK. Further, the side skirt is still intact at this point, stairs open with a man's weight on them. The part was right at the rear seam of the airstair door, its fasteners could have broken off and been pinched when the door closed and then dislodged in flight. It may have been a botched repair job,,, left loose.. What is clear is the part found did not come from NORJAK. Eric is still using a juvenile fallacy,, "prove my theory wrong or else it is fact".

Placard find is within the flight path map error.. This is the doc Eric claims describes NORJAK shredded fiberglass skirt... IT DOESN'T The size is 8" x 40" directly above the stairs... that matches this part perfectly. It was NOT missing from NORJAK just as the FBI stated. The part found that Eric claims is evidence of a western flight path is nonsense. This is Eric's MO, using layered gross speculation and conjecture to create a narrative. Challenge that narrative with facts and he'll call you a troll so he doesn't have to respond. The entire discussion about the Cinebar part being from NORJAK is flawed..

The stairwell is the outside in the context of pressurization,, but The placard was on the outside of the aircraft.. in this context or the FBI would never have said "NO PROOF" and it could have come from any 727. If they meant inside the stairwell then their statement means all passing 727's had the stairs open. They walked it back AFTER they investigated it. That placard doesn't fit next to the bulkhead door, doesn't go on the main panel and doesn't match or fit on the emergency release flange. The instructions don't even make sense for the 727 stairwell emergency system. The second 99% placard means a 727 (same aircraft), not 305. That suggests placards fall off 727's... often I doubt either decal came from NORJAK. NWO commenter on the placard used "probably" and "surmised", aka speculations.. an opinion, not facts. Eric and Robert on the wind at the placard location.. there is NO DATA. They made it up using FBI estimates from Salem and Portland. Drift analysis is junk. Eric made up the "fiberglass skirt", the found part was never confirmed or identified.. no evidence it was from NORJAK.. it was rejected by the FBI. Maybe it was a hoax, we don't know. He has repeated it so much that everyone believes the part found was the damaged fiberglass skirt from NORJAK... crazy stuff. The claim was a part 8" x 40" above the stairs... with a part number. That doesn't match the skirt. There is a piece that exact size right above rear edge stairwell of the 727.

Ready,,, here we go.. DEC 1978.. The FBI determined from the plane blueprints that the Hicks Placard came from the OUTSIDE of the aircraft. JAN 1979.. FBI knowing the location of the Placard on the OUTSIDE walked back the Sherrif's claim that it could have only come from NORJAK.. "could have been dropped from any Boeing 727" The FBI made this statement knowing the location of the placard on the plane. "no positive proof that the decal came from the Cooper plane" Next,,, MAY 1979.. a second decal is found in North Skamania County. Some name redacted expert claimed this second placard is 99% from the same aircraft as the Cooper plane.. I think that means a 727, not the exact plane. Conclusion, the FBI knowing the location of the first Hick's placard (outside the plane) claimed that it could have come from any passing 727. If it came from inside the stairwell they would not have made that assertion. and,, There was a second Placard/Decal from a 727 found. The Hick's placard looks too fresh/clean to be in the woods for 7 years,,, IMO, it is extremely unlikely to have come from NORJAK and there is no evidence it did. Using the Hick's placard as evidence for a western flightpath is self serving garbage.

Most people accept it as the theory,,, The question is what time exactly did Cooper jump and where exactly was the plane at that time. Radio transmissions have a time delay/rounding error and the flightpath has a N/S timing 1 minute error rate. Several times have been reported 8:12, 8:11, 8:10 and the FDR at 8:09. The FDR has a blip at 8:09.... was that Cooper descending, jumping or the airstair retraction? Oscillations after Cooper jumped..

Ulis keeps spewing garbage... The part found near Cinebar was never ID'd as the fibreglass skirt,, it was never shown to be from Norjak,, if he repeats it enough times people believe it as fact. The Placard was never proven to be from Norjak. The FBI walked it back. It is possible but unlikely. I have outlined many reasons but another is the placard looks too clean to have been out in the PNW woods for seven years. There is no dirt, no staining, nothing on it. This is too "fresh"... Eric's Western Flight Path argument is nonsense.. assumptions and poor logic. 1) The placard find location. Not proven to be from NORJAK and wind at that location NOT known. The wind drift analysis is garbage. The placard was found within the flightpath error. 2) The fiberglass skirt find location. Gross Speculation. Part not identified as the skirt and not in any way linked to NORJAK. 3) The money find location. The money find location isn't evidence of a Western Flight Path. There are many plausible ways the money could have arrived there. Not knowing how doesn't prove an alternate flightpath. and along the same lines but focusing on the opposite... 4) The complete lack of a single piece of physical evidence pointing to any other flight path. None. Zilch. Nada. Zero. After 49 years. This is a false on two levels. We don't know that nothing was ever found, nothing was given to the police/FBI,, that doesn't mean nothing was ever found. The false assumption is that anything found was given to FBI. Plus, the fact that nothing was known to be found doesn't mean Cooper didn't land there. This is a very weak theory that doesn't come to close to negating the overwhelming evidence for the "FBI" path..

DUDEMAN17 "What might make sense for 'oscillations'...When Cooper opens the door, they drop somewhat but are being held up (partially closed) by the air pressure of the relative wind. When he ventures out on them to jump, his weight causes them to lower somewhat, which would affect the pitch (tail up/nose down). When he jumps, the stairs recoil back up, past their 'static' position. (In fact, they apparently almost closed, which caused the 'pressure bump'.) Then they would fall back down again, again pushing on the air. They would bounce up and down on the air a number of times before settling back to the 'static' position. each time giving a bit of pitch influence." Yes, this is the generally accepted theory..

We don't know what that plane had... the 727-100 and 200 series had completely different systems.. but the 100 had an "optional" separate emergency release system behind its own panel door right of the main panel.. The 200 had the emergency release built into the main handle. The optional emergency release was later removed from Commercial passenger 100's.. I had speculated that Cooper pushed the main lever but didn't press the button and then pulled the emergency system.. The problem with that is,, the emergency system needs to be repaired (locks broken) after it is pulled and there is no record of any damage. The emergency cover is completely removed, obviously missing and the handle is clearly pulled. The only damage noted was minor to rear stairs. So, I really doubt Cooper pulled the emergency system. When the AFT AIRSTAIR light came on Cooper must have moved the main lever. Remember, during the sled test the airstairs bounced back up when it left.. they did not lock down.

All of them, some a few,, 3, 7, 67?? It happens but not the norm. Which hand to they have on the bomb when they are smoking? Do they carry a briefcace with the off hand? It indicates Cooper was a long term heavy smoker,,, Sheridan was not a smoker, Cooper didn't fake smoking to throw off investigators.

I am sure I have read the stairs are gravity drop, the hydraulics don't push them open but they control the gravity drop.. hold back an abrupt fall - crash. It is an emergency exit... you can't rely on hydraulics to open it.