Great video FLYJACK, thanks again.
The door placard has pieces missing. If those missing pieces didn't remain affixed to the door, what is the explanation? Just curious.
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The Placard find lends support to the FBI flightpath.. that placard is from inside the plane.
IMO, the environment in the aft stairway was more "violent" than generally thought. The released stairs didn't lower enough and the pilot had to slow the plane down for the hijacker to get out. It would have been a struggle to get down those narrow stairs to jump in 2 chutes and dress shoes. The hijacker may have lost some of the money in the briefcase or tied up in a piece of the chute on the way down the stairs, it stayed on the stairs for a few minutes after the hijacker left and dropped into the Columbia, making its way to TBAR.
The side panels shredded.. at 47 seconds in vid
FLYJACK,
The placard find location DOES NOT support the FBI flight path. Instead, it supports bypassing Portland on the west side, as does a number of other marks on the so-called "FBI map", witness statements, and flight crew remarks.
If the environment in the aft stairway was as violent as you suggest, no paper bills or any other light weight object is going to stay on those stairs for more than a fraction of a second.
How do you figure that, the placard was found virtually under the FBI flightpath.
The bill packets would have to have been in a container, the briefcase or tied up in a piece of the chute.
But, with the narrow stairs, side rails and panels, it is reasonable to infer that "money" could have been stuck or trapped briefly before falling.. He could have lost some as he made his way down the stairs..
FLYJACK,
You state that the placard was found virtually under the FBI flightpath. Assuming your statement is correct, and I am not going to bother checking, then you have just proven that the FBI flightpath is incorrect.
The wind at 10,000 feet that evening was about 30 knots from the southwest and about 10 knots at ground level. So when the placard separated from the aft stairs, it was going to travel several miles downwind, and away from the airliner's flight path, before it got to the ground.
Not so fast, I said virtually, it was within expected drift of V23..
What is clear is that its found location does not support the TBAR flightpath...
Not so fast yourself! I am the one who made the analysis of where the placard separated from the airliner and I went out of my way to be extremely conservative in that analysis. That means the placard travelled at least, and probably further than, the distance I calculated.
Since the FBI redacted all meaningful information from the Seattle ATC radio transcripts, the actual winds aloft at 10,000 feet cannot be determined accurately. But even with the latest guess-estimate of those winds aloft, the placard had to separate from the airliner at a point that was southwest of the V-23 centerline.
And again, the placard find location absolutely does not support the FBI flightpath.
What is your interpretation of all those red cross marks that appear on the same FBI flightpath map?
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