I knew several pilots who flew for World Airways. It did a lot of military contract flying but wasn't like
SAT or Air America. Different animal. Ed Daly, World's hard drinking and publicity seeking CEO never saw a
camera or microphone that he didn't like. That wouldn't do for a CIA front operation. World pilot Ed Herring in the mid 1970s gave me a personal tour of Dalys executive plane, a luxurious Convair Twin, probably a 440. It had a big onboard liquor inventory. World hauled cargo and people but didn't directly engage in military ops. SAT and Air America did. Prof. Joe Leeker of U Texas knows more about covert CIA cover airlines than anybody. He doesn't include World in the same spook universe as SAT and AIr America.

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So for all the flight path gurus here, what do you make of the latest Tom Colbert "parachute finding" stuff as it relates to the flight path and projected drop zone? In order for it to hold any water, the jump would've had to been made near La Center. In your opinion (and based on what we know about the pressure bump), any chance Cooper could've jumped in this area?

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So for all the flight path gurus here, what do you make of the latest Tom Colbert "parachute finding" stuff as it relates to the flight path and projected drop zone? In order for it to hold any water, the jump would've had to been made near La Center. In your opinion (and based on what we know about the pressure bump), any chance Cooper could've jumped in this area?

Basically none based on time and position.

The time of the jump was about 8:12 PM give or take a minute or two.  All indications are that the airliner was off V-23 and deliberately bypassing Portland on the west side.  And at 8:12 PM it would be almost directly over Tina Bar.

Also, an analysis of the free fall of the aft stair placard indicates that the airliner was already well west of the V-23 centerline when it separated from the aircraft.  And that supports the jump being near Tina Bar as well.

Tom Kaye is in the other camp on this one, right? He believes in the original DZ?

...Bruce Smith's speculations are baseless.

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...Bruce Smith's speculations are baseless.

My statements to Unsure above are not speculations, nor are they baseless. I was simply repeating what Tom Kaye publicly stated in 2011 at the Portland Symposium.

What is speculative at this point, Robert, is your belief that Flight 305 was far to the west of V-23 - well, wait, you only say that 305 was well to the west of the center line of V-23, which is only 6-8 miles wide to begin with, so where are you saying 305 actually was?

You may be correct that it was "well to the west of the center line," but it is still speculative as of tonight, and if true it only gives us a slight notion of where it might be. It could still have been in V-23.

Also, the placard has not been conclusively determined to be from Flight 305. It probably is, since the plane was missing its placard upon returning to Boeing Field for repairs, but it is not definitive. Yes, I know everyone says that the placard was Coop's and blew into the Silver Lake area when DB opened the stairs, but it is not 100% certain.

Bruce,

Assuming that the airliner flew direct from the Malay Intersection to the Canby Intersection, it would never be more than eight miles west of the centerline of V-23 anywhere between those two points.  So the airliner, and placard as well, would be within the lateral limits of V-23 for a considerable part of that diversion.