FLYJACK

McCoy was an interesting guy, but not Cooper.. He doesn't match the evidence.

We don't have to prove how it would benefit him... I can speculate but it isn't necessary, we don't know motivations unless they tell us. The Cooper case was a big deal in the skydiving world and we don't know his relationship with the FBI, was he paid?? If he ran the story it would have made him famous. He walked it back... he came in hot with the claims that he met Cooper then backed way off.. that is a classic sign of CYA. People lie or embellish all the time, there is no corroboration for his initial claim which IMO was never believable. It was as though he had read news reports and added it to some he guy he thought looked like the sketch. The tell is that he said the guy looked like the sketch which at the time was sketch A, the bad one,,, Cooper did not look like sketch A. The entire thing is a red herring. Lots of these land mines in the Cooper case. Frankly, I didn't believe his initial story before the walk back was published in the FBI files.. Maybe, I am just naturally more skeptical about unsubstantiated claims.... I also do not believe Tina's story about the money, it is at least partially deceptive.

No way. If I recall he was involved in a theft of government property... There is a reference somewhere about his writing a Cooper story in his publication.. perhaps he was going to and it wasn't published. He saw a guy who looked like sketch A, the bad one then embellished the rest of the story, he remembers Raleigh Coupons.... total BS. But, he walked it all back, case closed. He wanted to use Cooper as PR and when it got too hot with the FBI he walked it back,, his initial story ins't even believable. FACT, he walked it back,, that is all you need to know. Liars walk back claims.

Elsinore is a red herring. Lyle Cameron embellished his initial story and later walked it back... IMO, to promote his publication... as an FBI informant he injected himself into the case based on seeing somebody he felt resembled the sketch.. Sketch A, the bad one. "IT MAY BE COINCIDENTAL" "HE SAW AN ADVERTISEMENT" "MAY HAVE STIMULATED QUESTIONS"

UK - Money found in River... Paper, floating/suspended, some stuck together but not in complete packets/bundles.. It didn't, but this is what you'd expect if it went through a suction dredge... busted apart packets/bundles. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pictured-banknotes-found-water-spalding-2809107

I found evidence that he had planned his hijacking for a year.

That is why the FBI publicly claimed Cooper likely died... Hahneman was branded a copycat from day one in the media because it occurred later, he wasn't. Maybe he is the only exception. I have never done a deep dive on them.

Ok, never mind. Defining a copycat is subjective without evidence like for McCoy..

Then he is not a copycat.

If it exists, would that mean he was not a copycat?

To me, copycat means inspired by a previous one.. Hahneman's plan predated Norjak.. not a copycat.

Cini was a copycat.

Are you taking Alex Jones supplements? Three letter agency conspiracies exist but not everything is a conspiracy.

I don't think Cooper was a Cini copycat... because 11 days just seems too quick to plan. Cini's plan was a disaster... Perhaps just a coincidence. About 7 weeks later Billy Gene Hurst Jr. tried in January.. BTW,, What defines a copycat,,, There is evidence for McCoy,,,

Exactly. Walter lied, he was a serial liar and thief. Carl led Reca on the tape even with errors. Carl used an aging Walter Reca to overlay a Cooper narrative on him,,, but Carl got so many things wrong it becomes absurd. The plane went South, you know it, we know it, everybody knows it. Any new people to this case should avoid anything Walter Reca Peca related, it is a hoax. These people are liars and grifters... they have ZERO evidence, many errors and their narrative even proves Reca was not Cooper. It is a made up story. Anybody with a basic knowledge of the Cooper case can see that Reca was NOT Cooper.

So, he was a super duper secret CIA operative instructed in an OPERATION to use the rear door, but came up with the better idea to use the side door... Walter's tape... contradicts that. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/solved-d-b-cooper-the-real-story-episode-3/id1473919127?i=1000447009507 @11:35 He didn't know he had hijacked a 727, he didn't realize the rear door could be opened in flight even though he entered via the rear door, he only realized it when he saw the sign for opening the door.. Of course this is complete nonsense. He wasn't trained by the CIA. He was trained by Carl Laurin to pretend he was Cooper but Carl was such a poor researcher he got many of the case facts wrong.

Wrong. They used V-23. There is ZERO evidence otherwise. They had it on many radar systems. It is in the cockpit transcripts.. The Reca hoaxers are wasting our time.

This memo is dated 11/26/71

If the Cowboy was correct and it was Reca that proves he wasn't Cooper since the plane flew South not East.. and if the Cowboy was wrong and it was some guy that looked like Reca that proves the Reca narrative is BS. Lose, Lose. Reca is just a hoax.

Sure, he was coached to jump out the side door...

IDK, there is some conflicting info here, will have to sort it out.

It is odd because the previous conversation about slowing down the plane was via the inter-phone.. So, Cooper knew how to use it.. The only thing I can think of was that when he was pinged by the crew he didn't respond fast enough and the call ended.. He responded by pushing the PA button... rather than pinging back the cockpit. That seems to exhibit some level of knowledge.. This still doesn't make sense.. How would Cooper know what to say unless the crew spoke to him or they used the PA system,,, and it would have been loud.

It was the PA system. You have to push the PA button... then the button on the handset.. It seems odd,

This is interesting... Cooper responded using the PA system.. not the call. To use it you press the PA button on the interphone panel and then a button on the handset while speaking... how many people would know to do that.

Road flares are bright red... The bomb was described as reddish rusty color... and also wrapped in red plastic tape.