As I said on another forum this weekend, McCoy is the most obvious suspect. If he were Cooper, the case would have been solved and long forgotten decades ago.

Every witness said it wasn't McCoy.

Flo, Tina, Alice, Mitchell

Every. Single. One.

During his hijacking, McCoy attempted to disguise himself, but every witness was later able to ID him.

That alone is a huge hurdle, and that's ignoring the detailed and thorough investigation of McCoy that cleared him of the Cooper hijacking.

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Can someone clarify or explain the boarding pass to me with the "Dan Cooper" name on it ?  Did the hijacker actually touch this pass ?  Is this what the ticket agent handed to him and then he handed it to the boarding agent as he walked onto the plane ? 

Seems like most people agree that the ticket agent signed the name, I was just skimming through the Tom Colbert site and his team seems to imply that they believe the hijacker may have signed it.  (they did some comparison to one of the letters that came in shortly after the hijacking and said the writing was a match or similar)

Thanks !

JAG: Here is my two cents.  The ticket agent wrote out the ticket, and then gave a carbon copy to Cooper.  When we talked to Bill Mitchell at CooperCon, he showed us his ticket, and as I remember he told us that he did not write anything on it.  I believe his ticket was given to him at a different time than Cooper's.  His was actually cheaper as I remember (maybe because he was a student or because he bought it last minute, not sure).  I swear I heard Larry Carr mention that Cooper wrote his name on the ticket, but that has been generally disagreed with.  Others can comment more on that.  Bill Mitchell still had his ticket, so that tells me Cooper would have kept part of his too, and maybe that is in some attic somewhere.

I suspect that Cooper did not write his name on that ticket.  The Rackstraw team makes a lot of claims and has very loose interpretation on many things in order to put a 28 year old man in the shoes of a 45 year old man.

In the 1971 time frame, the ticket agent would do all the writing on the ticket, which would be a multipart document (probably three-part in this case), and then placed it into a folder or sleeve on which he would write the gate number.  The ticket agent would keep one copy of the ticket and give the remainder to Cooper.  The gate agent would take out one copy of the ticket and return the remainder to Cooper.  So Cooper had at least one copy of the ticket and the folder or sleeve containing it when he boarded the airliner and during the hijacking.  It is unlikely that he touched the ticket itself prior to boarding the airliner.

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Can someone clarify or explain the boarding pass to me with the "Dan Cooper" name on it ?  Did the hijacker actually touch this pass ?  Is this what the ticket agent handed to him and then he handed it to the boarding agent as he walked onto the plane ? 

Seems like most people agree that the ticket agent signed the name, I was just skimming through the Tom Colbert site and his team seems to imply that they believe the hijacker may have signed it.  (they did some comparison to one of the letters that came in shortly after the hijacking and said the writing was a match or similar)

Thanks !

JAG: Here is my two cents.  The ticket agent wrote out the ticket, and then gave a carbon copy to Cooper.  When we talked to Bill Mitchell at CooperCon, he showed us his ticket, and as I remember he told us that he did not write anything on it.  I believe his ticket was given to him at a different time than Cooper's.  His was actually cheaper as I remember (maybe because he was a student or because he bought it last minute, not sure).  I swear I heard Larry Carr mention that Cooper wrote his name on the ticket, but that has been generally disagreed with.  Others can comment more on that.  Bill Mitchell still had his ticket, so that tells me Cooper would have kept part of his too, and maybe that is in some attic somewhere.

I suspect that Cooper did not write his name on that ticket.  The Rackstraw team makes a lot of claims and has very loose interpretation on many things in order to put a 28 year old man in the shoes of a 45 year old man.

In the 1971 time frame, the ticket agent would do all the writing on the ticket, which would be a multipart document (probably three-part in this case), and then placed it into a folder or sleeve on which he would write the gate number.  The ticket agent would keep one copy of the ticket and give the remainder to Cooper.  The gate agent would take out one copy of the ticket and return the remainder to Cooper.  So Cooper had at least one copy of the ticket and the folder or sleeve containing it when he boarded the airliner and during the hijacking.  It is unlikely that he touched the ticket itself prior to boarding the airliner.

Thanks R99 and fcastle, so the one in evidence is the one that the ticket agent kept I presume ?  What happened to the second copy that the gate agent would have kept ?  Stating the obvious, they must have checked the one in evidence for fingerprints and came up empty right ?