If LeClair was still breathing at 8:18 PM PST, November 24, 1971, then he was not Cooper.
Can you please elaborate why you think LeClair couldn't have been Cooper?
Check the "NWA 305 FLIGHT PATH THREAD - REVISITED" thread and read the 9 (or 10?) parts that I posted there.
Or you can wait for the "out takes" from the recent Cooper "Expedition Unknown" TV episode and, if my "out takes" are in there, they will include statements like "the airliner passed Tina Bar along the west side of the Columbia River and within 1000 feet horizontally of where we are standing" and "for the money to get to Tina Bar, Cooper had to be a no-pull who cratered in the very restricted area that we are discussing here", plus other such things. I apparently didn't waffle enough on some of those comments for them to make the original episode.
Basically, the money at Tina Bar could not have come down the main river stream. Instead, he had to come from a very small area close to the channel between the east side of Caterpillar Island and the shore. Cooper could not have landed in that area if he had an open parachute anywhere above about 500 feet. Ergo, Cooper died as a no-pull, splattered in the small area in question, and within a small number of years the spring flood waters had moved the money (and probably Cooper himself) to Tina Bar. Some of the money and fragments were left there but everything else went on downstream.
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Yeah, so the guy pulls off a great heist, and then somehow cannot manage a parachute jump. Odds are ultra low, that he died in the fall...The same odds you'd give any paratrooper jumping at night. Somehow folk like to think Cooper was the dude at everything else, but then was a moron on the way down. Or he "drowned"... just ridiculous to think the guy is competent then turns into a frog.... He walked out alive, with no doubt...
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Criminals are known for doing stupid things. Cooper could of easily had the " I know everything" complex. When people have a suspect in mind it blocks things like this out because it doesn't fit.