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You’re not blocked on my FB group fwiw. Maybe Eric’s. Only person blocked is a bot account.

I think you’re projecting how you feel about me and others. I don’t wish anyone to be removed who has the capacity to bring value to the case. What you’re suggesting is actually the opposite of how I feel. I wish he was MORE visible. It would be great if he actually posted on FB or Reddit. I’ve privately invited him on my show, example. Things may get contentious between you and I or me and Flyjack, but that doesn’t mean I have some personal disdain or dislike for you or him. I just view it as a debate. I’m not always great at reigning in my personal snark and I’m guilty of personal attacks when my blood is up in the moment, which I regret in hindsight, but someone having a contrary opinion to me doesn’t mean I have genuine personal disdain for that person and wish they weren’t part of our community. That’s why CC has value. You can share beers with people you argue with. I liken it to criminal cases of mine where myself and the prosecutor will go have lunch together in the middle of a contentious trial. It’s just debate. To suggest that I’m afraid of Flyjack is silly. I actually enjoy being challenged because I enjoy debating and defending my theories. I also enjoy and value his insights. While I disagree vehemently with many of his stances and I’m not afraid to push back, he still brings much to the table and I respect his research skills. I’m having to rewrite an entire chapter of my book thanks to some of his challenges. I have a pretty major mea culpa to give my audience soon thanks to him. And I genuinely mean THANKS to him because I understand my responsibility as a “face” these days and the responsibility of writing a book that I hope stands the test of time. I’d much rather get the FACTS right than hold onto and promote an erroneous opinion simply because it was once mine and am afraid to admit to being wrong. I just want to get it right to the best of my understanding of the evidence. I’m able to be persuaded by others and by new evidence. That isn’t a sin. My only agenda is to try and get the case history and the case evidence correct for the sake of posterity. This is what I’ve never understood about the attacks you’ve made on me for changing my opinions on things. Isn’t it better if a researcher is able to be honest with themselves and is able to persuaded by other opinions and new research as opposed to being stuck for a decade with an immovable opinion?

Tina entered the cockpit at 7:40 according to the radio comms. Plane took off at 7:36

I generally put him in Balorama's in my animations. McCoy was wearing mirrored aviators. Mac wore aviators as well.

Not "sky glow" precisely, but in a memo from Charlie Farrell he wrote this:

Didn’t get them down by much though. At the start of this video I took at CC he indicates he only had a few feet of clearance even with his full weight at the bottom. https://youtu.be/DQ7T7ioES_8?si=PRz3KEeTp0For8mx

But you are discussing it publicly. This is an open forum.

Whether one believes he jumped at the Lewis River or further south, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that he jumped once the plane was no longer over deep ass forest.

I would never have added that scam to the Wiki. This gag video I made sums up what I think about Reca. His “confession” is one of the lamest things ever foisted upon the Vortex. That grift is an insult to anyone who honestly researches or cares about this case. https://youtu.be/zlQMyhRA58w?si=kydoM85WybRWSem0

Indeed. Mac is an example of winging it and successfully surviving and getting away from his DZ. Of course we can’t know for certain, but It’s logical that Cooper must have been looking for some sort of lights to at least know he wasn’t over water or heavy forest. Part of winging it would be to wait for some sort of indication of what is below you. None of us nor none of these dudes would jump over pitch darkness. If you’re winging it then you have no reason to not just wait until you’re comfortable with what is beneath you, which is what Mac did. Of course, Hahneman is probably the best counter example. I can’t imagine he saw much (or any) civilization below him when he jumped. I wouldn’t consider him a particularly rational hijacker though. I know you do, but I don’t find him to be a particularly good analog to Cooper. Of all the copycats, Mac is the closest analog to Cooper in personality. He stayed pretty calm throughout, behaved rationally, was good natured with the crew like Cooper, and was obviously winging it. The main distinction between them is parachute knowledge. Mac knew nothing about them - Cooper knew something about them.

Submit a FOIA for them. I just don’t think you’ll get very far. It appears that they treat unidentified individuals the same as living ones. I submitted a FOIA for the photo of the unidentified police mugshot from Canada whom Tina said was a great match for Coop. She said something like that she got a “funny feeling” when seeing his photo. My request was rejected.

Prints of known deceased people.

My ultimate point remains: the FBI aren’t going to release the Cooper prints to anyone outside the Bureau nor are they going to undertake any effort of their own at this point.

Anyone who served in the Army or Air Force from 1914 until 1968 had their records, including fingerprints, destroyed in the St. Louis Fire. If what you’re saying is correct, which would mean MILLIONS of old military fingerprints were scanned and added to a database (I find this unlikely), they would only be from the Navy or Marines for those who served before 68.

Well, it’s not like the public will ever have access to them. It would take the FBI to try and do something with them using modern technology or releasing them to an outside source, which you and I both know they won’t do because they don’t care to spend any more resources on this. And even still, there would still need to be available source prints within the NCIC database. Your suspect’s prints are in that database, so I understand where you’re coming from with this, but it would still take the FBI releasing those partial prints, which they won’t ever do.

Palm prints weren’t taken by law enforcement as standard practice until LAPD and NYPD began doing it in 2003. As per Mike Davis (former paratrooper of the year and current military recruiter who I’ve interviewed on my channel), the military still don’t take palm prints and never have. Even if we had clean fingerprints, which we don’t, it would be unlikely to help unless his prints were in the FBI’s database. If he was in the Army or Air Force, his prints would have been destroyed in the 1973 St. Louis fire. If he was Navy or Marines, his prints would exist but they wouldn’t be in the NCIC database. So military prints are a dead end. Ultimately, the prints are sadly useless IMO. Concerning the case being solved, it’s hair slide or bust. If that was found then forensic genealogy could be applied and find an appropriate suspect. Even still, there would be those who would claim the hair didn’t come from Cooper (a logical possibility) and/or that it’s the wrong person who was found through genealogy. Absent some fantastical scenario where someone finds a large amount of the money in grandfather’s attic, and grandfather is a good match to the descriptions, I doubt there would ever be a suspect whom 95% of the community would agree is Cooper.

Suffering tremendously. He credits his time in prison with helping him heal. We’re working to get him to CC this year. Mac may be back as well.

Yes. Cooper was certainly the most rational actor of any of the hijackers I’ve ever come across. But to do this in the first place you have to be a bit off your rocker.

Maybe Cooper didn’t care. He repeatedly told Tina he wasn’t going to be taken alive. Heady surely didn’t want to be caught, but he did it in just a few days. “There wasn’t much planning, but I knew it could be done.” Not that the FBI knew one way or the other, but they definitely thought he was inspired by Cini.

fwiw, Mac had 1800 flight hours in a P-2 Neptune as a crewman. One of his fellow crewmen testified at Mac’s trial that his crew had parachute training, but said he couldn’t recall Mac being there. Not that it matters if Mac was there - he clearly didn’t have a clue or what he was doing with the parachute and had to have the flight engineer show him how to put it on at gunpoint. .

It’s not something we can know. But nothing about Cooper’s heist required more than a week to plan. The idea that two men were simultaneously coming up with a similar heist at the same time that had never before been attempted seems improbable. Not totally inconceivable or anything, but just seems unlikely.

Important for anyone who is reading this to remember that all of this was BEFORE Tena Bar

He said he spent $15,000 on it. I assume his contract was commission only.

Yes, John Banks was his name. He ran a company called Electronic Exploration. Claimed he spent over 5,000 hours on the Cooper case, which is a laughable number, of course.

To be clear, the 302 is what was new to me and also that Globe was keeping the FBI in the know about it. The salvage operation was written about pretty extensively in Himmy’s book.