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(Sins of omission...) do you hijack aeroplanes though?? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

mistaken? what were we looking for anyhow? I thought we had no good profile. Did you think we had a profile? Also, I have no confidence any more that I know what the note actually said, so ignore that particular post. well... insofar as "profile" was concerned I don't think anyone has mentioned Eng Lit majors before Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

What are you sayiing - we have all been mistaken and should be looking for an English Lit major? And even if Duane's writing does match that in the book - first, is the handwriting so unusual? 2nd ... so what? Even if confirmed, all it tells us is he read a book. Hey, it is entirely possible that Duane's secret ambition was to catch DB Cooper and he went down all these roads long before we did, and died frustrated, finally mentioning why (well, it's as possible as the fact that he was Cooper!) Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Jo, why on earth do you find it so hard to believe that a cheap mass-produced tie clip has no distinctive markings on it? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Thanks... ( I specifically wanted your answer rather than other posters, especially those who keep on saying the FBI hide stuff ) btw if the tie is a skinny black tie then it is not the same one they showed in the program (wider typical "early 70s" style with diagonal stripes that looked blue & grey...) Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Thanks Tom. now, was just watching the " FBI Files" on McCoy. I don't buy that he was Cooper from what I have seen, but they mentioned that the tie & tie pin were identified by relatives of McCoy's as belonging to him? (If this has been mentioned somewhere here I apologise, but it was new to me.) Ckret, is this so? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

So Tom, wary of the CSI effect here but is the real world actually like CSI where you can narrow down to a very small area depending on the composition of the soil? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

No Jo, that doesn't follow. Inexperienced typists who do not use proper touchtyping could get even a brand new manual typewriter to stick. (I talk from experience here...) No doubt you will ignore that though because it doesn't fit with your evidence which requires a good typist. Your evidence on Duane is interesting though; in those days, wasn't it pretty unusual for a guy to do typing? Even in my schooldays, typing classes at school were never, ever chosen by the boys. well done to Mark remembering half space features..i'd forgotten. i do remember white-out paper (the original tipp-ex as i recall), as well as the ribbon that let you type either black or red. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Next you're going to tell me the US economy is actually going to make a full recovery in the future. It is. (but "the future" is a long time) Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

OK, given my background: I was unsurprised to see a Pareto reference, but interested in the other places (outside of economics) he shows up? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

hmmm. i have a more philosophical approach to them i guess... occupational hazard. end of story. (you can always look up the economic literature on the free rider problem) Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Thanks Sluggo! and kudos for all you guys involved in this... & welcome to the forum, Tom. looking fwd to the new evidence ... sounds like something that may satisfy the CSI junkies is forthcoming?: And kudos to Ckret too, looks like your approach is paying dividends. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

I have a really crappy net connection at the moment - can someone summarize the video for me...please? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

The story as i recall came off the BBC News website, which I generally trust... didn't think to bother following it up. If you say it is myth, OK, will follow up later sometime when I have time to do some searches. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

I tried. I posted that link a few months back of the remains of a WW2 paratrooper that had just been found in a tree... can't remember where the location was but it does show someone can be up a tree for a long time without anyone realising they are there. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Very good points ... if disappointing to many of those here. It does seem eminently possible, and I agree a non-jumper would probably not want to risk freefall (and we have discussed at length the kind of panic a non-jumper might experience in freefall, especially with a hard pull). I still think we are looking at a fairly binary outcome: non-jumper probably didn't survive, best chance of survival from someone with paratrooper experience. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Yes, but for reasons that I probably shouldn't post here Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

..what did i do/say?! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Yes, it is odd. I suppose the FBI gets lots of fake leads too..? Unless... the "FBI agents" were fakes who were sent to get the register and cover Cooper's tracks. (conspiracy theme music plays in background) Of course if this was the case one would have expected them to do it almost immediately, not wait a few days by which the time the real FBI could have been there already. So, no that doesn't work. btw do I have it right that the night clerk's story is that the agents came round there, unsolicited, as it were? Is there anything in the records that shows how extensively this part of the FBI search would have been done i.e. door-to-door of accommodation establishments, over what time and area? (Looking for another angle to corroborate or otherwise his story.) Also is there any way the FBI can check whether he did actually work as a clerk where he said he did? (Would it be worth your while to do this?) Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Yay! Do we have lift-off? Ckret, would there be some record of who the agents were who interviewed him originally? (Just trying to square his statement about the register with you having said you couldn't find a record of it being taken). Then as an aside to Snow that would be wizardRy, and it would be "through" (teen abbreviations don't work in wizardry) Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Oh Come On Now! I may be snowmman, but I'm not that omnipotent when it comes to real reality. I can't post something here, and all of a sudden human bodies decide to up and move across continents. Snow, don't be such a spoilsport, let Jo add it as a block in her conspiracy theory. Jo, as for the "blanks", well maybe someone is yanking your chain. On the other hand I'm sure if you try hard enough you'll get the right number of letters to match the Xs in one of Duane's many aliases. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

hmmm... when one of you is in a playful mood, kindly go hijack an aeroplane (any old plane will do, seeing as you will not get to jump it). please insist that the ransom is delivered by Agent Carr in his underwear, with streaming to Youtube . When you get sent to jail, i will arrange for a subscription in your name to russian brides/asian brides/whatever brides you may be interested in Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

CKRET HOW MANY TIME DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE DAN COOPER COMICS SOLD BY XXXXX XXXX XXX IN THE JEFFERSON PRISON....THEY WERE PROVIDED BY HIS GIRL FRIEND. Why do you have such selective memory when it comes to things I have repeatedly told the FBI? I feel a strange sense of relief that the comics sold were not Archie ... Archie Andrews just wouldn't cut it as a serious name for a hijacker Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Answer 1. I am not aware anyone thought the night clerk had not yet been born at the time of the hijacking (seeing as 1971 is 37 years ago). I think the question snow asked, at least as i understood, not stated explicitly: a night clerk (or any hotel clerk job really) is not exactly the most intellectually demanding job out there. Sure, that is true of a number of teaching jobs as well, but would it be normal to expect someone already doing a job like that well into their 20s to then go and get a teaching degree and end up being so good that they get contratcs in China? And the answer could be yes maybe, but at face value, it would be unlikely. btw if the night clerk was 27 in 1971 (i think that was what snow said? is that true) that would make him 64 now, close to retirement and a strange age to be taking up contracts in foreign countries? Again sure it's possible...but unlikely? 2. Agreed. So why are there so many posts from you lambasting them for not doing anything about him? 3. Not worth what it would do to his life?? A second wife or whatever is hardly unforgiveable, and far less of interest anwyay than what he claims to know. I think this reason that you keep using is very strange. Far more people have real stuff to hide and still come forward to report on crimes. It's not like he would be the first witness in history to have his credibility called into question. Hey, he would be a hero if he helped crack the DB Cooper case anyway, so if his version is correct I can hardly see why he wouldn't go public. Of course, if what it would do to his life reveals deception of you and people despise him for that, sure then I understand it. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

What initials?? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.