* Is there any way to establish the authenticity of these recordings?

Are you suggesting this is a hoax or from a movie or something? The audio tapes were barely audible when I got them. I was only able to restore the 12 minutes you are hearing after an entire laborious week working on their restoration. It would be nice to have something to confirm their provenance to know where they came from, but their authenticity seems self evident.

* How are the speakers identified? For example, how does one distinguish the Captain from the First Officer?

Having written a book on this case, surely you know Rataczak and Scott's voices...no? There is plenty of audio out there of them both talking about the case. Those are clearly their voices. Both have very distinct and unique voices.

* How would the crew be able to talk to Soderlind in real time, when the crew were at Sea-Tac and Soderlind was in Minneapolis (far out of radio range), and there were no cell-phones?

It is also well documented that Paul Soderlind was in communication with 305 throughout the event.

This from Tosaw, who spent a significant amount of time with Rataczak and Soderlind.




This from NWA themselves:


As for how it worked, Northwest Airlines maintained a company VHF radio station at SEA-TAC. To communicate with the crew, Soderlind spoke into a telephone landline that was patched into this Seattle NWA company radio transmitter. The Seattle ground station then broadcast his voice over VHF to the aircraft.

This is the kind of evidence needed...arguing over who said what or how someone walks gets you nowhere...

Amen Shutt.

Did everyone see this?

Yes. I am the one that got the audio and there is more that I am working on recovering. It's probably the most important piece of outstanding evidence to date and I'm glad that I was able to bring it to the community. Ryan did an amazing job cleaning the audio up because what I got was rough.

Did everyone see this?

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get Ron’s presentation but I did get the subsequent panel discussion between him and Tom. I will try to get that up next. Ron’s presentation was one of the highlights for sure. The biggest thing in it was he summarized the amount of water force needed to displace items of varying scales and he essentially said you can displace sand without more easily displacing the money at the same time. He said it’s theoretically impossible for the river to bury the money. He had like a graph of all kinds of items and basically said the ones that required more force to displace than sand could self bury but everything under it couldn't. Also he poured cold water on Tom's diatom assertion by saying that the diatoms could have penetrated the sand and gotten to the money post burial. I don't think he's technically right but after a lot of AI powered research I think it is technically possible but extremely unlikely. The sand would have to be extremely coarse which I understand to not be typical for riverine sand. He agrees the diatoms Tom found (astrionella formosa) were 80-100 microns and you'd need to have a crazy pore throat in the sand filter to get through. He accepted the push back pretty well but wouldn't fully give in.