Georger...I am not suggesting that he purchased this stuff over the counter. I believe based on the facts that its plausible that he was able to obtain this stuff through the military somehow. I believe that Modafinil is controlled (schedule 2 maybe) so I agree; I do not believe its sold over the counter. To be honest with you, I have no idea if it was used obviously; its just a though. Some of the members were bringing up ideas earlier pertaining to stimulants and it came to my mind when I was reading it.
People state that DBC's left very few clues; I kind of think he left more...we just haven't figured them out yet.
I also agree Cooper left a number of clues but it seems that the FBI has tried to convince us he was not very bright and jumped to a certain death. Let's discuss a few.
1. The FBI says " Why would Cooper choose to jump at night into a freezing cold storm " ? My answer is simple ... because he didn't want to get caught ! If he jumped in the daylight on a clear beautiful day, he would be picked up almost before he landed.
2. Cooper's whole plan was based on jumping out of a plane at night with what amounts to $1,200,000.
This tells me it was not his first jump. Also 777 told us clearly that nobody he has ever witnessed who did their first jumped were ever NOT VERY SCARED. Only a complete idiot would do this under those conditions. Cooper did nothing on this whole caper to tell me he was that dumb.
I like to look at things from a logical perspective. Lots of times logic will solve mysteries. We know with 100% certainty that Cooper flew from Portland to Seattle. If I flew on that flight it would be pretty much impossible NOT to notice this huge river that flows right next to the airport runway right ? If I was going to jump out of this plane on the return trip, common sense tells me to NOT land in this river. Do any of you jumpers think there is ANY chance to survive if you would land in the Columbia ? Both the pilots reported seeing the lights of Vancouver and Portland. It doesn't seem like a stretch to think Cooper must have seen the same thing ! I guess it's all in whether you believe he died in the jump or he survived the jump. If he was experienced, he would have avoided the river !
I think the Money find at Tina Bar could have arrived there without a plant and also without a no pull. Of course being open minded, i see merit in no pull also. But why be closed minded ?
The consensus is, 305 went by Portland on the west side. How far west and on what vector (from where) seems to be the only question.
Note* when I say vector I mean 'vector' and not Victor
I just wanted to note that Both Vancouver and Portland's downtown city centers lie WEST of the I 5 Interstate. Also Portland is 8 or 9 miles SOUTH of Vancouver. Of course so is Tina Bar quite a few miles West of I 5. If what Rataczak says is anywhere close to accurate, why is the exact position of aircraft when it passed Portland so important as Cooper was long gone BEFORE the plane crossed over the Columbia river. I have flown in and out of PDX at least 100 times and airplanes seldom or ever flew directly over Portland City Center.
Frankly, I dont know that it is that important. Except that people in the past have made it important, namely the idiot Blevins and Himmelsbach's friend Jerry Thomas who insists (according to Himmelsbach and Rataczak), 305 came in across the TROUTDALE AIRPORT! way east of Portland, having flown south through the drainage basin of the Washougal River.
All of these permutations are designed to account for the money being at Tina Bar. It's really that simple.
That is why its important ... to some. The rest of us are then given the job of replying to it ...
*Quite frankly Kermit, much of this has to do with the way forums have been run and what people have posted in forums since say 2006, than anything thing else. What people have brought to the table in supposed facts has been biased. And almost nothing has diluted that over the years. We sit today with the self-same arguments and data people introduced over a decade ago, and Carr wasn't much help. I mean for example, we have literally had "nobody" who actually worked on the flight path here in person to speak for their side of the argument - nobody from NWA or the AirForce and it was those people who examined the flight path. The only three people who actually tried to offer an analysis (real numbers) are Sluggo, Kaye, and R99. Everything else has just been "opinions" coming in from every possible angle. That void allowed people to start talking about the Tina Bar money being a plant.
So far, there is no direct connection between a flight path and the money at Tina Bar.
The importance is proportional to the "struggles" people have gone through trying to make any sense of this and connect all the dots ... flight path to money on the ground. By comparison the placard find is easy with a direct cause-and-effect connection.
The only thing I can identify is: people seem to ignore the crucial role the Air Force played in this whole story. People have tried to say NWA was responsible for the flight path map and dz estimates/searches. That's just not true! And I can prove it. I've been saying this for years but nobody listens. The Air Force's role in the Cooper hijacking has been largely ignored in favor of more glamorous social personalities who attract higher forum ratings for whatever reason! Drama sells better than facts!
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