Kamkisky

I’m sure Bill is very sharp in his field of mechanical engineering. But this is another example of how people should stick to their subjects. I come from a social science background and if I were to attempt to do mechanical engineering it’d be a disaster. I’d embarrass myself. Anyone with a engineering background could spot I was out of my depths immediately. Here we have a mechanical engineer trying to use a social science approach to the case, he is attempting to use Cooper’s actions and words to find him, and it is every bit the disaster as if I attempted mechanical engineering. He picks one of, or possibly the worst clue and builds his whole case around it. He attempts to find Cooper by looking for a middle aged guy with a grudge. Well guess what? Good luck. Every middle aged guy has a grudge. Every single one of them, and more than one grudge too. His attempt at applying logic outside his field falls spectacularly flat and of course produces a terrible suspect and bad rationales to try and make him fit.

It was Flo. She exited the plane with Alice, and I believe she made it all the way to inside the car on the tarmac. Somehow she was allowed to just walk back up the stairs and go to the back with Cooper and Tina to retrieve her purse. It’s absolutely an insane thing to do. I’ve speculated she had something in her purse and realized she’d get busted if found…I’m happy to assume weed but could be other substances. No one cares 50+ years in if a 22 year old stew had party favors in her purse in her way to Miami. It’s not meant as a slight. Hell…I’d expect one of the crew to have something.

He did some strange things but like Georger said, some could be tactical. Having as little interaction with the world outside the plane as possible is a perfectly rationale decision. To me he seems like his plan was to keep it simple, get in and get out as quick as possible and have as few touch points as possible. He says as few words as possible too. Everything is focused on getting this show on the road. This is a bank robber mentality. The one thing he does that seems the oddest to me could be the easiest to explain. Cooper waited until the plane landed and Tina was going to make her first run and then he went to the bathroom with the briefcase and mystery bag. Why wait till on the ground? That has no tactical advantage unless he was up to something. And why bring the mystery bag from under his seat? I get he could have just had to take a piss but he isn’t a child. He would have known as the plane was descending he had to pee. It’s way smarter to do that in the air. It’s super suspicious to wait until on the ground when he is most vulnerable. Only one thing weirder happens the whole skyjacking. And that’s Flo re-boarding to get her purse. That’s just flat out crazy behavior. I found one other example of a passenger re-boarding, he came to get his jacket and he left in a body bag.

Let assume he has a grudge. Let’s also assume it’s not against NWA as he said. What entities could he be getting back at by skyjacking a plane? Outside of the airline industry or banks there’s aren’t many. And skyjacking a plane because you have a grudge against the manufacturer is to removed. If you had a grudge against BMW would you carjack a BMW for revenge? His grudge can’t be personal, he didn’t target a person. If his grudge was political he sure didn’t act or talk like it and ultimately wouldn’t have had any negative impact on it. There is no evidence he was acting to support a specific political cause. His grudge IMO is more general. He has a grudge against the system. He is sticking it to the man and getting what he sees as his in the process. This does have value in identifying him. He isn’t a political radical. He isn’t a NWA or Boeing employee. He isn’t carrying out the act against an individual. He has a grudge against society and this is a high profile, and high profit, way to stick it to the system.

This is the definition of gaslighting. They are telling him something he knows isn't true trying to get him to believe it. Your whole theory here is Cooper thought (who's reading his mind now?) that he was being setup. So instead of saying no to the setup, which is based on information he knows is false, he just agrees to the setup and decides instead to jump at random into the night three countries from his final destination. Bonkers. Just like he told the cowboy to go sit down, a Cooper with a plan to really go to Mexico tells the cockpit/GG to shove it, no more funny stuff and fly the plane to Mexico. There is no reason he can't do that. If needed Cooper could reiterate he has a blonde and bomb and he won't be taken alive. Captain Scott had a 16 year old daughter, he isn't going to play games. He'd fly the plane to Mexico. Let's be clear...if Cooper really wanted to go to Mexico he could have. Any theory without this obvious *and undisputed* fact incorporated can't be the right one.

He is 1,200 miles from Tijuana. Seems a little premature. And if your theory is right it set off a cascading effect that ends up forcing him to abandon his plan (second plan anyways) and jump at random into the night over a thousand miles from his original destination. Bad move. It’s so much simpler to look at what he did and just accept it. A to B and back to A. Jump the lights of terrain he knows and let the plane fly off to a distant destination to stretch the search zone. It’s a basic plan that is repeatable. It’s the most likely scenario according to a 14th century English philosopher named Ockham.

He is in Seattle and plans on landing in Mexico. Why is he talking to them about lowering stairs in flight at that point?

There is zero reason to ask for the stairs to be down or the plane to be configured in any abnormal way if he plans to be on it when it lands in Mexico. Not a single reason to discuss any of that in Seattle. What was he going to do, have them retract the stairs before landing in Mexico? The only time it makes sense to discuss that stuff is at the final stop before he plans to jump. This clearly indicates he planned to jump coming out of Seattle the whole time. Now maybe he planned to jump where he did or maybe he planned to do it elsewhere (Mexico) but it’s clear he planned to do it before the plane landed again, and he brought it up *before* Reno was discussed. Reno didn’t change the fact he was going to jump before the plane landed again.

Why is he giving *any* demands in the PNW about airstairs or configuration if he plans to be on the plane when it lands in Mexico?

Reno talk comes after he asks for the dirty configuration. It’s the dirty configuration that caused the conversation. When he asked for the dirty configuration he was planning to land in Mexico according to your theory. If he plans to land in Mexico there no reason to ask for any alternate configuration. The timing doesn’t work.

If his plan was to refuel in Mexico when he gave instructions to 305 in the PNW why ask for the dirty configuration? That configuration has only two rationales, to make it jumpable and to stretch out the search zone. If his plan was to be on the plane when it lands in Mexico neither of these apply. It makes no sense to ask for it.

So landing in Mexico to refuel didn’t scare him. Landing in Seattle to get cash and refuel didn’t scare him. Landing in Reno to refill freaked him out and he changed plans. I don’t know Fly…it’s a lot.

He seemed as rationale as someone skyjacking a plane can be. Another point, if Cooper is H then his ultimate destination is Honduras, not Mexico. Even if he was successful he would have found himself in Northern Mexico with a 22 pound bag of American cash. He’d have to make it across all of Mexico and Guatemala to get to Honduras. Thats a serious flaw in his plan. H just skyjacked and told them to take him to Honduras, that’s at least a real and viable plan. Why the first time would he have had such a crappy unviable plan? I get improvements but the gap here isn’t improvements, it’s the gap from a moron to at least average intelligence.

If his intentions were never to skyjack in the PNW boy did he get lucky since he knew the area he didn’t intent to be in. He knows Tacoma from the air and McChord on the ground. The back of the napkin math to Mexico City is also great point. Also, why take a plane flying the wrong way and conduct his business in Seattle? Why not take a flight heading south towards his destination of Mexico? If he is plane hopping looking for an opportunity, he has money in his pocket, he has the ability to pick a flight that more fits his desire to go to Mexico. Another point I’ve made that you’ve never addressed is, if he did what you suggest and managed to get the flight distance of the 727 correct (when not dirty) why would he agree to negotiate a new destination? I get you say the game of telephone caused confusion. But that’s confusion in communications, if he knew the plane could make it to Mexico he has no incentive to change. He just says BS, this plane fully fueled can fly way father than Reno so get this thing to Mexico and no more funny stuff. I mean, you can’t convince me a small car I know holds 12 gallons can only go 60 miles. Im not changing my plans based on someone telling we can only get 60 miles…I’d call BS. Your argument is he got gaslight and bought it hook line and sinker.