I've jumped in rain, not a big deal besides the discomfort. High winds (esp with stock round canopies) are a different story.

Ask ANY windsurfer or kiteboarder about the Gorge. It has its own Venturi weather and can be wildly different from the surrounding areas in terms of wind. It's where people go to set sailing speed records.

Kermit, what kind of acft was your ANG unit flying back then? I have friends who were PJs (para-rescue jumpers) with the 129th ANG Air Rescue Squadron at Moffett Field CA. HC 130 Hercs with air refueling gear for helos.

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Shut, can Gene give us any of the basics on Snyder: age in 1971 or DOB, height, skin color, tattoos, etc.

Also, can he give us any insights into Cossey? Add any insight why Cossey sent the parachutes to Boeing Field, who took them to SEA-TAC? Any clarification why his perspective is at such variance to the basic facts that we've come to know and love?

Bruce,

It is well documented and has been discussed here at great length that Cossey didn't send any parachutes anywhere.  Linn Emerick sent the two chest packs from the Seattle Sky Sports facility at Issaquah direct to SEATAC, not Boeing Field, with a Washington Highway Patrolman.

The two back packs were sent by Norman Hayden to Boeing Field by taxi and from there they were sent, again by taxi, to SEATAC. 

The above information is contained in the George Harrison papers and the FBI's 302 files.

Another New Suspect

A skydiver named Ron Terry. Story written by a family friend, Jon Kinyon, and published in an online magazine named "OZY." Brought to y'all by RMB (!) at the MN. Includes a death-bed confession to his gf, Kinyon's mother.

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"WASHINGTON, May 5—An air pirate described by his fellow passengers as “cool and calculated” collected $303,000 in ransom and six parachutes and departed in an Eastern Airlines plane from nearby Dulles International Airport tonight for the second time in six hours.

The Eastern Airlines 707 (typo), which carried six crew mem bers, was forced to land twice at Dulles, the second time be cause the hijacker was dissatisfied with the denominations of the first bundle of ransom money. He demanded, and received, bills in denom inations of $500 and $1,000 the second time. The earlier ransom was mostly in $100 bills and was recovered by the airline.

Two hours after the plane took off from Dulles, it landed at New Orleans International Airport with the hijacker still aboard. It taxied to the end of the runway where it was being checked for mechanical problems.

The hijacker later demanded a new plane, and one was towed onto the runway.

The unidentified hijacker of the Eastern plane commandered the Boeing 727 shortly after it took off from Allen town, Pa., at 9:40 o'clock this morning. The plane landed here to collect one batch of ransom money, then circled over Vir ginia for five hours before re turning to the same airport to exchange the money for the larger bills.

During the first landing, the hijacker released all 48 passengers and a stewardess. No one was harmed.

The jetliner departed a second time shortly after 8:09 P.M. into the gathering dusk. Behind the hijacked plane was a second airliner carrying law men armed with rifles, presumably intent on shooting the hijacker if he attempted to bail out.

Pilot Told to Obey

At an airport news conference tonight, Frank McDermott, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the pilot had been instructed to obey the hijacker. He said no overt at tempts had been made to stop the hijacking during the two times the plane was on the ground because it would jeopar dize the lives of the crew members.

Frank Borman, the former astronaut and now a vice president for operations for Eastern Airlines, during a news confer ence assailed the news media for what he said was the portrayal of hijackers as “folk heroes.”

Referring to the hijacker, he said, “I can only say I hope he is caught, convicted and executed.”

Mr. Borman verified reports that Air Force jets were “in the air” trailing the hijacked aircraft.

Little was known of the hijacker. Passengers who were interviewed by the F.B.I. said afterward he was tentatively identified as George Ames, but no verification could be obtained.

Brandished Gun

Passengers said the man brandished a revolver and said he had dynamite aboard the plane.

Mr. McDermott, the F.B.I. agent, said the hijacker had told a stewardess to tell the flight captain, W. L. Hendershott of Miami, that he was carrying the dynamite but no one reported seeing any dynamite sticks on the plane.

An overheard conversation between officials in the airport tower and the pilot related that, while the aircraft was in the air over Virginia this afternoon, the hijacker remained where he had been throughout the early stages of the flight—in the rear of the craft conversing with the stewardesses. The conversation was overheard on a radio that can monitor the frequency used by the pilot and the airport officials.

Billy Graham There

Scores of onlookers, news men and curiosity seekers crowded the observation tower at the airport and looked on as the exchange of money took place across the field. Among the onlookers was the evangelist, the Rev. Billy Graham.

The exchange of Money was accomplished shortly before 8 P.M. An airline official took $200,000 aboard the airplane in the denominations demanded by the hijacker. With the hi jacker's consent, he retrieved an equal amount from the sum that the man had received earlier. This left the original amount of $303,000 aboard.

At the same time, an engineer and one stewardess came off the aircraft, and were replaced, leaving a crew of six.

The plane, flight 175 from Allentown, had been scheduled to stop at Washington National Airport before heading for Miami, its final destination. But minutes after it was in the air, the captain informed the passengers that he was no longer in control of the plane.

The hijacker told the crew to radio ahead his demand for the money, six parachutes and some food. The craft thereupon landed at Dulles, the $303,000 was put aboard with the other supplies and the 49 persons were allowed to debark.

In answer to the hijacker's request for a newspaper, a copy of The Washington Evening Star was put aboard. It contained only sketchy details of the hijacking.

During the radioed negotiations after the plane first took off from Dulles, Walter J. Dane of Eastern Airlines told report ers that “we are going all over the eastern United States” trying to find bills of a larger denomination.

Mr. Dane and other officials said they were puzzled over why the hijacker would ask for bills larger than the $100 denomination he was given, but it was presumed that the larger bills would be easier to bail out with.

The original amount was taken to the craft in a brown cloth bag stenciled with the name of the First and Merchants National Bank, which has a branch at the airport. One official carried it on his shoulder 100 feet through the airport lounge before relinquishing it to two guards be cause it was too heavy.

Persons interviewed by F.B.I. agents said afterward that they had been told the hijacker had bought his ticket in New York City. Other passengers said the man had a “New York accent.”

The man was described as in his mid‐forties, with dark hair speckled with gray, of medium height, and having a dark or swarthy complexion.

One passenger, Robert Palazzo, Mayor of Columbia, N. J., said he had gone to the rear of the plane shortly after it took off from Allentown.

He said he met the hijacker outside the lavatory.

“Get back to your seat,” Mr. Palazzo quoted the man as saying. “I told him I only wanted a magazine and that's when he pulled his gun.”

When Mr. Palazzo protested he went on, the hijacker ordered. “You either get back to your seat or I'll blow your brains out.”

The passenger said he quickly returned to his seat and in formed a stewardess of the incident. “Then I ordered a double Scotch,” Mr. Palazzo said.

Despite the threat, none of the passengers were harmed. One of the stewardesses who was forced to sit near the hijacker, Carol Shannon of Wash ington, was apparently unnerved by the incident. Passengers reported that she became ill. She was the only one of the seven‐member crew to debark at Dulles Airport with the passengers.

Eastern Air Lines officials at Allentown said that no magnetometer had been used to screen the passengers on the flight.

Ten other planes have been hijacked in the last six months by men demanding ransoms. One, known as D. B. Cooper, bailed out of a Northwest Air lines plane Nov. 24 with $200,000. Eight others were caught and a ninth was shot and killed by an F.B.I. agent while fleeing with $200,000."

Full document,,

INQUIRY INTO THE ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY IN THE WATERGATE AND ELLSBERG MATTERS

Senator Lucien Nedzi questioning CIA E. Howard Hunt (Watergate)

Re: Frederick William Hahneman aka George Ames possible connection to Frank Sturgis aka Frank Angelo Fiorini (mob, informer, watergate, Latin American anti-Communist activities)

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Frank Sturgis aka Frank Angelo Fiorini

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E. Howard Hunt

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other interesting docs..

Sturgis arrested Honduras for setting up training facility
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hijacker "George Ames" mentioned..

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IMO, We need to do a FOIA on Hahneman...

So if there appears to be more unsolved skyjackings in the US,then we is our beloved Cooper caper referred to the"only unsolved hijacking in US history" ?