Cossey stated that there was a skydiver staying in the loft the night of the skyjacking. This was supposedly the person who handed the front reserve chutes (one of these being the training chute) to law enforcement ?  Does anyone have any idea who this might have been? Did Cossey or law enforcement ever mention a name?  Would this person have been a student?  Was it a common practice for people to stay overnight there?   Was this person ever interviewed by authorities? 

             Glad to see your site up and running again! Hope everything is ok? This site would be sorely missed, at least by some of us! Hope all is well Shutter?

Just a glitch in The Matrix. Shutter is perfectly fine as far as I know.

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Recently, Shutter and myself had the opportunity to get on board an old 727. I was able to get on one myself back in October, but this one is a 727-100.

I have included a link to some photos I took.

Of note, I took some photos while seated in the Flight Engineer and co-pilot’s seats to provide visual reference of what they could see outside.

I also took photos of the cabin rate of climb indicator and the toggles used to change the radio frequencies. The pilot who gave us the tour told us that it was possible for the pilot to be on one frequency talking to someone and the co-pilot to be on another frequency talking to someone entirely different. In fact, the VHF NAV frequencies could be used to talk up to four people but that was highly unusual and didn’t work very well.

Here is think:

Recently, a long time contributor to the Vortex who is known online as Shutter and myself had the opportunity to get on board an old 727. I was able to get on one myself back in October, but this one is a 727-100 - the same model of Flight 305.

I have included a link to some photos I took.

Of note, I took some photos while seated in the Flight Engineer and co-pilot’s seats to provide visual reference of what they could see outside.

I also took photos of the cabin rate of climb indicator and the toggles used to change the radio frequencies. The pilot who gave us the tour told us that it was possible for the pilot to be on one frequency talking to someone and the co-pilot to be on another frequency talking to someone entirely different. In fact, the VHF NAV frequencies could be used to talk up to four people but that was highly unusual and didn’t work very well.

Here is think:

Recently, a long time contributor to the Vortex who is known online as Shutter and myself had the opportunity to get on board an old 727. I was able to get on one myself back in October, but this one is a 727-100 - the same model of Flight 305.

I have included a link to some photos I took.

Of note, I took some photos while seated in the Flight Engineer and co-pilot’s seats to provide visual reference of what they could see outside.

I also took photos of the cabin rate of climb indicator and the toggles used to change the radio frequencies. The pilot who gave us the tour told us that it was possible for the pilot to be on one frequency talking to someone and the co-pilot to be on another frequency talking to someone entirely different. In fact, the VHF NAV frequencies could be used to talk up to four people but that was highly unusual and didn’t work very well.

Here is think:

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Hopefully, Shutter will provide his insight.

Merry Christmas Everyone! May the good Lord bless you all!!

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