Meyer wrote: "You always say there's zero evidence for this and zero evidence for that, kind of implying that it must not have happened then.  We only have two pieces of physical evidence in this case -- the Tina Bar money and a placard.  That's it.  Evidence for much of anything is pretty much non-existent here.  Yet, that is your counter argument for just about everything.  What was in the bag, what was in the briefcase besides a bomb or flares, what was in Cooper's pocket??  Yes, there was No evidence of an electronics device, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there.  You are definitely a lawyer, 377"

I am a lawyer Meyer, but I am also an EE and longtime radio user. I know what kind of small nav and comm gear was available in 1971. Cooper could have carried a hand held comm radio, CB, VHF or UHF, but that would not give nav info. Direction finding gear could have been carried by an accomplice on the ground, but that would just give a bearing not a location. There was no GPS back then. DME, LORAN, OMEGA and VOR gear was big in 1971 and took a fair amount of power to operate. Could he have had some larger nav gear in his briefcase? I suppose it's possible.

Nobody would like Cooper to have been radio equipped more than I would, but I see no reason to think that he was. Might he have been radio equipped?? Sure. Is there any physical or behavioral evidence that he was? No.

If Cooper were smart enough to carry radio gear he almost certainly would have included a small tunable VHF air band receiver. That way he could monitor ALL comms between the plane, FAA and FBI giving him a big advantage in avoiding an ambush or trickery. 

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they saw only the contents of the bomb

Obviously this caper was well planned....and before any simplelton mindlessly screams at me "where is the evidence it was well planned!!?!?", I point them to the self evident fact that it has never been solved, not even a hint of solve, after 40+ years....now, unless I am mistaken, didn't he have a briefcase AND a bag? I recall reading the bag bit in the FBI papers, and if I'm wrong about a bag, then the egg gladly and rightfully goes on my face... If so, I'd assume that, being well planned, the bag contained useful items for the caper and getaway....  just because the hottie stewardesses (Tina was one, there was another looker I saw in the press conference) didn't see other items, doesn't mean he didn't have them....
..end of Dice transmission....

agree with most of this - well executed

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agree with most of this - well executed

Let me use a better word.... BRILLIANTLY executed. That a bunch of us are still here, 46 years later, actively discussing it, is telling. 

And this segways to a curiosity of mine, why it seems the idea of it being a planned operation by at least 2 people, is little discussed.  If anything, to pull this off and have the FBI shut down search, and sleuths still nowhere near a solve, it implies with fervor, that it was a collective effort rather than a sole scofflaw. That, or luck was on his side in spades...

Meyer wrote: "You always say there's zero evidence for this and zero evidence for that, kind of implying that it must not have happened then.  We only have two pieces of physical evidence in this case -- the Tina Bar money and a placard.  That's it.  Evidence for much of anything is pretty much non-existent here.  Yet, that is your counter argument for just about everything.  What was in the bag, what was in the briefcase besides a bomb or flares, what was in Cooper's pocket??  Yes, there was No evidence of an electronics device, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there.  You are definitely a lawyer, 377"

I am a lawyer Meyer, but I am also an EE and longtime radio user. I know what kind of small nav and comm gear was available in 1971. Cooper could have carried a hand held comm radio, CB, VHF or UHF, but that would not give nav info. Direction finding gear could have been carried by an accomplice on the ground, but that would just give a bearing not a location. There was no GPS back then. DME, LORAN, OMEGA and VOR gear was big in 1971 and took a fair amount of power to operate. Could he have had some larger nav gear in his briefcase? I suppose it's possible.

Nobody would like Cooper to have been radio equipped more than I would, but I see no reason to think that he was. Might he have been radio equipped?? Sure. Is there any physical or behavioral evidence that he was? No.

If Cooper were smart enough to carry radio gear he almost certainly would have included a small tunable VHF air band receiver. That way he could monitor ALL comms between the plane, FAA and FBI giving him a big advantage in avoiding an ambush or trickery. 

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Georger wrote: "But the money just does not seem to fit with the assumed facts. We seem to be lacking some facts."

Amen brother, amen.

I have looked at the chard field evidence.  My pet theory that Brian's Dad subtly led his son to "find" previously planted Cooper currency has to be discarded. His Dad was squirrelly as hell in the History Channel interview, but the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the chard field rules out a plant of the currency stack found by Brian

If we believe Cooper exited at a point which could credibly deposit the money (by losing it during the jump) at T bar, then the most widely accepted flight map is inaccurate.  You cant square one with the other.

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Your last sentence explains everything.  At least up to the time Cooper jumped.

Oh, goody gum drops, for I have literally no idea what you're referring to....was it wittiness that I missed? If not, then what exactly was so lucky, before the jump? Are you referring to the crew buying his likely bluff of having a bomb and not road flares with wires and a battery?  Lucky that they didn't storm the plane whilst in the lav?  Enlighten me here...