Nothing in the so called redactions suggest much of anything...I've never seen redactions done this way to begin with. some of the dots are seconds between transmissions or after a hand off. what could possibly be said that they are covering up? Ammerman claims they were done due to other traffic which I describe as noise. this would suggest a different set of transcripts vs the generic way they redact by blacking words out or covering them (white out). the white out version is what we see in the 302's.
I fail to see any smoking gun in this..they state in the transcripts of not knowing if Cooper was still on the plane so what could they be hiding or covering up? this would be extremely hard to do with so many involved. if it's the plane's position it calls for more covering up by falsifying a map. we basically have idiots flying a plane, idiots behind a radar screen giving locations that are miles off, idiots in the Air Force in the air and on the ground. we have idiots on the ground searching miles off because the dots tell the real story or the placard? that's a lot of idiots in one event, no?
I've always admitted the gaps in the jump zone but if they didn't know he really jumped then what again are they covering up. they finally knew once the plane landed because they were to chicken to look. Rataczak told Carr it was 10 - 15 minutes after 8:05 and not 5 - 10?
The attachments you include are not air traffic control communications nor were they transmitted over the air traffic control frequencies. They were made over the ARINC radio patch and teletype network.
When the airliner was handed off to the Oakland Center, the Oakland controller booted everyone, including the C-130, off the airliner's VHF frequency. And no other aircraft was on that frequency throughout the landing in Reno.
It is very likely that no other aircraft was on the same frequencies assigned to the airliner during the time it was in the Seattle Center's area and enroute to Reno.
I have posted over the years about the frequencies assigned to the airliner when in the Seattle Center's area and I suggest you take a look at those posts which include a discussion of where their remote radio facilities were located along V-23.
