The red x seems to have only been known by a few...Linn Emerick didn't know what the X meant, nor did his daughter in the video explain what color the X was...

discussion about the chutes start at around 3:35

There was no "RED" X. SP much later mentioned a RED X as did many on DZ, but it was likely an X with a red flap that got morphed into a "RED" X on DZ..

Bruce

What you're asking for, is an assessment of all the FBI memos, accounting for errors.
That is, what is the overall best assessment?
We know various memos have little typos, like the report from Reno on the evidence found, where the National Guard  misidentified the date of mfg for the found Pioneer rig (they said 1960..later memos corrected to 1957, which is correct)

The NB-6 is sage-green, nylon.
The Pioneer isn't.

The idea that the NB-6 had separate description for harness and container is wrong. That memo Shutter provided mixed language from the Pioneer description with the NB-6 description.

The NB-6 is an emergency rig. It wouldn't have some kind of "luxury civilian" harness.

The description of "luxury civilian" is bogus too. I think that must have come from Cossey.

We know exactly what Hayden's non-taken rig looks like. That is positively correlated 100% with FBI information. No one should confuse the situation by pretending Hayden's rig wasn't the non-taken one.

Now, it's perfectly fine to question why Hayden's Pioneer rig was described as luxury, civilian. I think maybe Cossey just misremembered and started thinking it was a Pioneer skydiving rig.

I'm not going to attach any memos, because this is all well covered. The only new thing to me was Shutter's memo. I don't know the date on that, but I suspect it was much later. So whatever SAC wrote that, he didn't know what he was looking at when he consulted old FBI memos.

nothing mentioned about any red flap that I know of...more likely to have a magic marker type X like the names written on the containers..(Johnson Coss)

Yes, the X and "Red" flap was mentioned in 2003 article.. not available.

"The Mystery of D.B. Cooper," by Musika Farnsworth, Parachutist, November 2003

It was repeated in a later updated version.. 2010

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"a large X and red closing flaps"

IMO, this is where the "red" got erroneously added to the X. DZ posters repeated it..  red, red , red... there was no red X. There was an X.

Unsurelock: fiction.

I'm having problems posting. (copy/paste? but weird, was fine before)

In any case, here's a photo of Emrick at Issaquah Sky Sports, next to a wall where chest packs are apparently hanging on the wall. I wonder if they grabbed the chest packs from this wall (and why would you hang a training rig on the same wall as rigs that will be used as life savers? Seems risky/error prone to me. There seems to have been plenty of others to pick from. This was in newspaper 12/1/71

sorry, posted this at wrong thread, reposting here.

Oh there was another paragraph where Emrick's wife also chimed in, agreeing about who they thought was the hijacker.
Also more detail on how Emrick picked the chutes.

"The middle-aged hijacker, described by the F.B.I as about six feet in height, 170 to 180 pounds and dark brown or black hair, may be an experienced jumper Emrick has known."

Hmm...interesting they say "has known". Not "knows"..i.e. it's someone he knew in the past.

"Emrick's wife also believes the man is the same person who is being hunted near Woodland in Clark County"

Also in the article, it says the Washington Aeronautic Commission had called Emrick Wed. afternoon requesting "four parachutes for two hijackers in Seattle"

"The head of the local jump center then learned that a Renton firm supplied the two backpack chutes and only chest pack chutes would be needed.

He first looked for a pair of older-type chutes because, Emrick said, he knew he "would never get them back again." He didn't have two of the older chutes, so Emrick gave them training parachutes.

UNKNOWN to him at the time was the fact that one chute was for ground training only and was non-functional"

So yeah, it's weird. Not clear if Emrick gave what he thought were both training parachutes, or didn't realize or what.

If it wasn't known to Emrick at the time, then who told him? Someone else at Issaquah Sky Sports the next day? or what? And who said for sure it was a non-functional training chute. Not Emrick I guess? And not FBI and not Cooper.

That's a new problem I haven't heard yet G...have you cleared your browser cache? I'm trying to resolve the issues with the server so it might take some time to get all the kinks out...

Here are better versions of the Issaquah Press 12/1/71 article that's readable. I broke it in two..the text article and the Emrick photo with chest rigs
(I was quoting this article above)

sorry, posted this at wrong thread, reposting here.

Oh there was another paragraph where Emrick's wife also chimed in, agreeing about who they thought was the hijacker.
Also more detail on how Emrick picked the chutes.

"The middle-aged hijacker, described by the F.B.I as about six feet in height, 170 to 180 pounds and dark brown or black hair, may be an experienced jumper Emrick has known."

Hmm...interesting they say "has known". Not "knows"..i.e. it's someone he knew in the past.

"Emrick's wife also believes the man is the same person who is being hunted near Woodland in Clark County"

Also in the article, it says the Washington Aeronautic Commission had called Emrick Wed. afternoon requesting "four parachutes for two hijackers in Seattle"

"The head of the local jump center then learned that a Renton firm supplied the two backpack chutes and only chest pack chutes would be needed.

He first looked for a pair of older-type chutes because, Emrick said, he knew he "would never get them back again." He didn't have two of the older chutes, so Emrick gave them training parachutes.

UNKNOWN to him at the time was the fact that one chute was for ground training only and was non-functional"

So yeah, it's weird. Not clear if Emrick gave what he thought were both training parachutes, or didn't realize or what.

If it wasn't known to Emrick at the time, then who told him? Someone else at Issaquah Sky Sports the next day? or what? And who said for sure it was a non-functional training chute. Not Emrick I guess? And not FBI and not Cooper.

Sheridan Peterson..

"EU" has advanced this in another thread..

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(BTW: It can't be Peterson because it was Hahneman)