In your apparently very thorough research of this matter

Did I just get patronized by one who swears a pair of poof lovers did the caper, bamboozled by the incomplete statement "I have something to tell you, but I can't !!!". Now THAT is humor.   And if your time wasted is what is called research, getting it so wrong, then color me guilty.  But thank you nonetheless, for imagine my delight, as you've made my weekend !!!

#checkyourselffirst

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In your apparently very thorough research of this matter

Did I just get patronized by one who swears a pair of poof lovers did the caper, bamboozled by the incomplete statement "I have something to tell you, but I can't !!!". Now THAT is humor.   And if your time wasted is what is called research, getting it so wrong, then color me guilty.  But thank you nonetheless, for imagine my delight, as you've made my weekend !!!

#checkyourselffirst

Dice, do you know which planet you are on?  I don't know who is patronizing you, but it sure isn't me.

Are you possibly referring to Robert Blevins, an individual who is not on this web site?

Whoops   Somehow I thought Robert99 was Robert Blevins.  Requotes get muddled when typing from a phone with a small screen.  My apologies.  True, I have not done extensive research.

Thanks Robert, for I didn't expect a pass... Though I do expect a lifelong one from Georger.....after all, my clan gave his Hayden Fry via Bump Elliott....

what!? whats this about Fry and Elliot? 

Well, my alma mater Michigan had to let Coach Elliott go because he couldn't beat Woody at OSU, but we couldn't simply kick him upstairs, as he'd be looming over his replacement coach Bo, making it difficult   But we take of our own, so we essentially secured the AD position for him at Iowa.  It was there he hired Fry....
though I should acknowledge the return favor paid, when Elliott suggested that Bo hire a one Jack Harbaugh from Iowa's staff.   We are still reaping the dividends with his son...
...so thanks for paying it forward Georger !!!!

There is no factual basis whatsoever for believing that Cooper survived the jump.

Correct...however, if this caper was done by a vietnam commando planned operation , then, relatively speaking, it'd have been a walk in the park for them....

One thing about this case seems somewhat clear. We can eliminate the vision that Cooper died in the deep woods around Ariel and nothing of him or his remains have been found ! There's NO way that some of his loot could have ended up at Tina Bar unless of course some hunter or searcher found him and threw some $$ into the Columbia river for whatever reason. This seems remote,so I'm concluding that the original search area had to be wrong. Am I missing something ?

Nope.  You got it right.

ADDENDUM:  Maybe I need to clarify a bit here.  IF Cooper landed in the original LZ, then someone would have to carry the money to Tina Bar.

But there is evidence that Cooper separated from the airliner almost directly overhead of Tina Bar.  If he was a no-pull, he could have then landed in a relatively small area that would move him and the money to Tina Bar during a subsequent high water event.  This is the only means for Cooper and the money to get to Tina Bar from the airliner with invoking human intervention of some kind.

The finding of a shard field underneath the bundles of bills is not easily explained.  However, I suggest that there was more grading and spreading out of sand at Tina Bar, not involving dredging, than has been documented. 

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what!? whats this about Fry and Elliot? 

Well, my alma mater Michigan had to let Coach Elliott go because he couldn't beat Woody at OSU, but we couldn't simply kick him upstairs, as he'd be looming over his replacement coach Bo, making it difficult   But we take of our own, so we essentially secured the AD position for him at Iowa.  It was there he hired Fry....
though I should acknowledge the return favor paid, when Elliott suggested that Bo hire a one Jack Harbaugh from Iowa's staff.   We are still reaping the dividends with his son...
...so thanks for paying it forward Georger !!!!

Damn. You do know half my family is in the UP. So I win on either count.

Have a nice day! 

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One thing about this case seems somewhat clear. We can eliminate the vision that Cooper died in the deep woods around Ariel and nothing of him or his remains have been found ! There's NO way that some of his loot could have ended up at Tina Bar unless of course some hunter or searcher found him and threw some $$ into the Columbia river for whatever reason. This seems remote,so I'm concluding that the original search area had to be wrong. Am I missing something ?

Or unless he survived in the original lz and walked south then met the boys with the smelly cloths who relieved him of his cash and his life ... near the Columbia ... near Salmon Creek (in one of those hobo camps). Tom may have this right. Based on the lack of hard evidence at hand I still think it's too early to tell, and I hate having to take that position.

My point mainly was that Cooper's body doesn't lay somewhere in the woods around Ariel. Yes I actually believe Coop could have very easily survived the jump and walked out undetected. As a matter of fact just yesterday I was visiting the Hobo camp that still exists today. I don't think Cooper was a easy mark however.