did he use this on the stairs, I doubt it would pick anything up inside the plane...metal 360 degree's around the inside?
This is the portable model that is just like ones that are designed to be used on an airplane, so I think they would work inside the plane.
But I think more likely he had someone on the ground listening to the Air Traffic Controller and the Pilots.
They could figured out where the plane was and planned all along to jump near Portland. I think it could have been an oversight on the hijacker's part not to specific the flight path. Maybe he just assumed if he told them to fly to Mexico that they would fly right over Portland.
He didn't seem worried about taking so long to get the airstair down, so maybe he didn't plan to jump right after the plane took off afterall.
I happen to know of someone that worked for Nova-Tech at one time and had a brother who was
convicted of using police scanners to file fake accident reports with insurance companies in the 1960s. So
they would have known how to use radios to communicate and listen to aircraft.
And this someone also had a grudge against
the State of Washington because he had been indicted for financial
fraud one year to the date before the hijacking.
May be just a coincidence but I am put in a public records request to
find out some more details.
But he also was in deep trouble financially because he had invested
heavily in Titanium stocks and was working for a titanium company
at the time. The two companies he invested in were down 90% and 50% from 1968-1971.
And this guy was involved with horseracing with a man who had a son who was serving in the Air Force in Thailand in 1970....when Air America was filming "Flying Men, Flying Machines"