If we are to point fingers it appears the FBI also believes the placard was outside...they were told it was outside by the rear door..that's the bulkhead door to the stairs which is basically outside of the cabin. the biggest problem is zero pictures of any plane with this placard.

The other strange thing is the lack of proof a placard was even missing. this was mentioned years later and it's full of contradicting statements in the 302's and the newspaper. it was noticed missing two days later, it was missing six weeks later. the placard was found 12 miles east of Kelso.

We do know the emergency handle with the lock wire is next to the normal stair release in the stairwell. the stairs can be operated from the ground underneath the plane as well and has a emergency pump if the hydraulics fail. you can see that in the diagram below..

FJ seems to be going with the FBI interpretation. In addition, none of the TAG team photos of the stairwell and at the rear door location show the found placard in place. Or it is missing where it should be in the photos of those locations, wherever the correct place is!

Until somebody comes up with a definitive statement about where the placard should have been on 305, no solution is possible.

The pictures we have during the testing show the inside of the stairwell but the door for the normal stair release is open blocking the view of where the emergency panel is located. that really ticked me off. there is writing on the panel but they could of had the larger placard as well. nothing in the 302's and searching the plane suggest the placard was missing or the panel was pulled off to the emergency handle. a hole in the wall should of been noticed to anyone looking in the stairwell.

Shutter wrote: " we also know from testing that very little wind or disturbance takes place in the stairwell. how would a placard come off so easy? these decals should be expected to work vs fail. I would assume similar to stickers put on vehicles being towed. they are very hard to get off. hopefully, more documents will follow....regardless to the newspaper. the decal is very thin and not a heavy plastic. it very obvious to see this."

I've been on tailgates and stairwells (C 130, DC 9, CASA 212, Short Skyvan, etc) and can confirm that they are not turbulent locations in flight. Quite calm in fact. I was surprised when I first experienced this.

I liked Georger's Robert Frost adaptation.

So looking at the data presented so far, if I want a 727 airstair placard, all I need to do is walk around rural WA. It shouldn't take too long to find one. My son, now 30, was always very optimistic. At age 3 1/2 he was walking with me in a bayside industrial area in SF and spotted a twenty dollar bill in the gutter. There was nobody in sight and no clues as to ownership. He asked if it was a dollar and I said it was much more than a dollar. He asked if he could keep it and I said yes, since we had no way to give it back to the person who lost it. After another half hour of walking I said it was time to head home. NO DADDY he protested. Why? I asked. Because Daddy if we just keep looking we will find another one.   

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I've been on tailgates and stairwells (C 130, DC 9, CASA 212, Short Skyvan, etc) and can confirm that they are not turbulent locations in flight. Quite calm in fact. I was surprised when I first experienced this.

Either Boeing or NWO states in the 302 believing the pressure change caused the placard to escape. I don't find this to be plausible?

Shutter wrote: " we also know from testing that very little wind or disturbance takes place in the stairwell. how would a placard come off so easy? these decals should be expected to work vs fail. I would assume similar to stickers put on vehicles being towed. they are very hard to get off. hopefully, more documents will follow....regardless to the newspaper. the decal is very thin and not a heavy plastic. it very obvious to see this."

I've been on tailgates and stairwells (C 130, DC 9, CASA 212, Short Skyvan, etc) and can confirm that they are not turbulent locations in flight. Quite calm in fact. I was surprised when I first experienced this.

I liked Georger's Robert Frost adaptation.

So looking at the data presented so far, if I want a 727 airstair placard, all I need to do is walk around rural WA. It shouldn't take too long to find one. My son, now 30, was always very optimistic. At age 3 1/2 he was walking with me in a bayside industrial area in SF and spotted a twenty dollar bill in the gutter. There was nobody in sight and no clues as to ownership. He asked if it was a dollar and I said it was much more than a dollar. He asked if he could keep it and I said yes, since we had no way to give it back to the person who lost it. After another half hour of walking I said it was time to head home. NO DADDY he protested. Why? I asked. Because Daddy if we just keep looking we will find another one.   

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One day after a wind storm a few years ago, I found about one-third of a $20 bill in my yard.  I still have that and continue to check my yard after ever new wind storm hoping that the other two-thirds will turn up. 

Here is what I know:

1) The placard was a decal.
2) The placard was affixed near the top of the stairs.
3) The placard was not affixed on the outside of the fuselage.

I am purchasing an emergency exit placard exactly like the one from Cooper's jet.

You can see images of the placard (front and back) at the following link because I cannot load the pictures onto the forum site.

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Based on the wording in the placard, it would probably be placed next to the access door it mentions.

This puts a fork in the "placard was from another jet" conspiracy theory.

The airstairs had to be deployed in-flight for the placard to separate from the jet.

Based on the wording in the placard, it would probably be placed next to the access door it mentions.

Correct. you can see the emergency panel in this photo FJ found...

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