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Timet is interesting because they had a titanium plant in Toronto, Canada where Dan Cooper comicbooks would have been known.  They didn't have a connection to the PNW, but there was a lot of movement of employees in the field, so someone associated with Timet in Toronto could have moved to the PNW and lost his job as a result of the SST cancellation in 1971.    The Concorde SST was being developed in France and the UK and when the Boeing SST was cancelled, many companies that had been involved with Boeing went to France in Fall 1971 to get contracts for parts.  One of those companies was Zirtech, out of Albany, OR. Zirtech was in financial trouble in 1971 and wound up selling 200,000 shares of it's stock to KBI for $200,000 ($1 per share) which was a bargain.

Interesting. On the one hand, Toronto is not a particularly bilingual city - the Cooper comics (along with TinTin) would have been found mostly in Quebec, parts of Manitoba, and New Brunswick, as well as in French language classrooms in every province. Toronto's pretty cosmo, so the books would have been available for purchase there, but again, probably specifically in French bookstores/sections. I'd never heard of the Dan Cooper comics before reading up on this case, though we always had TinTins in the French classrooms (I was in elementary school in Canada in the 70s).  HOWEVER -

that Sky Chef matchbook. Did Tina Mucklow ever identify it as part of the airline service Sky Chef? Because there WAS an unconnected restaurant called Sky Chef in Toronto 1971. Their matchbook looked like this. (390 Bay would be right in the financial district of downtown):
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I have wondered if DBC passed through either Canada or Mexico to launder the money (if he retained it) abroad. It would be easier for it never to turn up again if circulated overseas. (I think it would be too risky to circulate it IN Canada or Mexico, though, as it could re-cross the border quite quickly.)  I simply don't believe every teller in the world was keeping an eye on US twenties for very long after the skyjack, particularly without the computer systems we have today. IF it was ever circulated, the bills would have long been destroyed by now, according to a little cursory research about the life span of circulated money. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

I have wondered if DBC passed through either Canada or Mexico to launder the money (if he retained it) abroad. It would be easier for it never to turn up again if circulated overseas. (I think it would be too risky to circulate it IN Canada or Mexico, though, as it could re-cross the border quite quickly.)  I simply don't believe every teller in the world was keeping an eye on US twenties for very long after the skyjack, particularly without the computer systems we have today. IF it was ever circulated, the bills would have long been destroyed by now, according to a little cursory research about the life span of circulated money.

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Timet is interesting because they had a titanium plant in Toronto, Canada where Dan Cooper comicbooks would have been known.  They didn't have a connection to the PNW, but there was a lot of movement of employees in the field, so someone associated with Timet in Toronto could have moved to the PNW and lost his job as a result of the SST cancellation in 1971.    The Concorde SST was being developed in France and the UK and when the Boeing SST was cancelled, many companies that had been involved with Boeing went to France in Fall 1971 to get contracts for parts.  One of those companies was Zirtech, out of Albany, OR. Zirtech was in financial trouble in 1971 and wound up selling 200,000 shares of it's stock to KBI for $200,000 ($1 per share) which was a bargain.

Interesting. On the one hand, Toronto is not a particularly bilingual city - the Cooper comics (along with TinTin) would have been found mostly in Quebec, parts of Manitoba, and New Brunswick, as well as in French language classrooms in every province. Toronto's pretty cosmo, so the books would have been available for purchase there, but again, probably specifically in French bookstores/sections. I'd never heard of the Dan Cooper comics before reading up on this case, though we always had TinTins in the French classrooms (I was in elementary school in Canada in the 70s).  HOWEVER -

that Sky Chef matchbook. Did Tina Mucklow ever identify it as part of the airline service Sky Chef? Because there WAS an unconnected restaurant called Sky Chef in Toronto 1971. Their matchbook looked like this. (390 Bay would be right in the financial district of downtown):
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I have wondered if DBC passed through either Canada or Mexico to launder the money (if he retained it) abroad. It would be easier for it never to turn up again if circulated overseas. (I think it would be too risky to circulate it IN Canada or Mexico, though, as it could re-cross the border quite quickly.)  I simply don't believe every teller in the world was keeping an eye on US twenties for very long after the skyjack, particularly without the computer systems we have today. IF it was ever circulated, the bills would have long been destroyed by now, according to a little cursory research about the life span of circulated money. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

Sky Chef. We know. Tina testified about it. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two.

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Thank you (for sending me back to that den of Jos and Blevinses, lol.) I have taken a look, but have only found reference to Sky Chef the catering service and their affiliated restaurants, mainly at airports, and matchbooks, not to the seemingly unaffiliated Sky Chef restaurant in Toronto.

I certainly would never suggest you didn't know about the Sky Chef matchbook; it's in Tina's witness statement. I would assume anyone on here would have at least read the witness statements as released. The question I had is whether she recognized it as part of the airline food service company Sky Chef, or if it merely SAID Sky Chef - I am not finding that detail in her interviews as released, and am wondering if she has been asked about this at any other time. I do know she has allowed interviews rarely compared to others in the case (and I can certainly understand why she would feel that way; I probably would myself. Most sane people don't enjoy revisiting their traumas once they've moved past them).

Again, the Sky Chef restaurant in Toronto does not APPEAR to have been related to the airline food company, though it's a fairly odd name for a restaurant - I don't know if it might have been elevated as I have ONLY seen reference to it when I found the matchbook cover on a Google search (restaurants come and go). The airline catering service's matchbook cover was quite different, though it was also blue:  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

The one from the Toronto restaurant is far less sleek and corporate-looking. It's a photo on one side, and what looks like a hand-drawn image on the other. Again, the restaurant was in the heart of the downtown biz district, nowhere near the airport.  I'll try to find out more about the restaurant if I can, at least to see if it was affiliated in any way, if not online then the next time I'm in Toronto -
 my bro lives there. (Of course, the needle in haystack part comes in when you wonder if any other cities had restos/bars with similar names, also unaffiliated to the catering company).
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Timet is interesting because they had a titanium plant in Toronto, Canada where Dan Cooper comicbooks would have been known.  They didn't have a connection to the PNW, but there was a lot of movement of employees in the field, so someone associated with Timet in Toronto could have moved to the PNW and lost his job as a result of the SST cancellation in 1971.    The Concorde SST was being developed in France and the UK and when the Boeing SST was cancelled, many companies that had been involved with Boeing went to France in Fall 1971 to get contracts for parts.  One of those companies was Zirtech, out of Albany, OR. Zirtech was in financial trouble in 1971 and wound up selling 200,000 shares of it's stock to KBI for $200,000 ($1 per share) which was a bargain.

Interesting. On the one hand, Toronto is not a particularly bilingual city - the Cooper comics (along with TinTin) would have been found mostly in Quebec, parts of Manitoba, and New Brunswick, as well as in French language classrooms in every province. Toronto's pretty cosmo, so the books would have been available for purchase there, but again, probably specifically in French bookstores/sections. I'd never heard of the Dan Cooper comics before reading up on this case, though we always had TinTins in the French classrooms (I was in elementary school in Canada in the 70s).  HOWEVER -

that Sky Chef matchbook. Did Tina Mucklow ever identify it as part of the airline service Sky Chef? Because there WAS an unconnected restaurant called Sky Chef in Toronto 1971. Their matchbook looked like this. (390 Bay would be right in the financial district of downtown):
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I have wondered if DBC passed through either Canada or Mexico to launder the money (if he retained it) abroad. It would be easier for it never to turn up again if circulated overseas. (I think it would be too risky to circulate it IN Canada or Mexico, though, as it could re-cross the border quite quickly.)  I simply don't believe every teller in the world was keeping an eye on US twenties for very long after the skyjack, particularly without the computer systems we have today. IF it was ever circulated, the bills would have long been destroyed by now, according to a little cursory research about the life span of circulated money. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

Sky Chef. We know. Tina testified about it. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two.

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Thank you (for sending me back to that den of Jos and Blevinses, lol.) I have taken a look, but have only found reference to Sky Chef the catering service and their affiliated restaurants, mainly at airports, and matchbooks, not to the seemingly unaffiliated Sky Chef restaurant in Toronto.

I certainly would never suggest you didn't know about the Sky Chef matchbook; it's in Tina's witness statement. I would assume anyone on here would have at least read the witness statements as released. The question I had is whether she recognized it as part of the airline food service company Sky Chef, or if it merely SAID Sky Chef - I am not finding that detail in her interviews as released, and am wondering if she has been asked about this at any other time. I do know she has allowed interviews rarely compared to others in the case (and I can certainly understand why she would feel that way; I probably would myself. Most sane people don't enjoy revisiting their traumas once they've moved past them).

Again, the Sky Chef restaurant in Toronto does not APPEAR to have been related to the airline food company, though it's a fairly odd name for a restaurant - I don't know if it might have been elevated as I have ONLY seen reference to it when I found the matchbook cover on a Google search (restaurants come and go). The airline catering service's matchbook cover was quite different, though it was also blue:  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

The one from the Toronto restaurant is far less sleek and corporate-looking. It's a photo on one side, and what looks like a hand-drawn image on the other. Again, the restaurant was in the heart of the downtown biz district, nowhere near the airport.  I'll try to find out more about the restaurant if I can, at least to see if it was affiliated in any way, if not online then the next time I'm in Toronto -
 my bro lives there. (Of course, the needle in haystack part comes in when you wonder if any other cities had restos/bars with similar names, also unaffiliated to the catering company).
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well, if anything could be tied to Toronto, that would be new.   

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Believe me, Toronto would be THRILLED if DB passed through there, and would have a parade if he was a resident. The city is traditionally known as Toronto the Good and is mocked by the rest of the country for its cosmopolitan staidness. Toronto could use herself a bad boy. 

Do not even get me started. His brother's still around. But there's a difference between a bad boy and a crackhead. May he rest in peace. 

I understand that Toronto's famously bad boy mayor, Rob Ford, I believe, has passed away. He was a coke addict during his tenure, if I recall. My condolences.

So touchy, Lynn.

Smile.