Gryder & DB Cooper....

“The fbi is unofficially looking into….” == “the fbi is not looking into…”
 
Except that would be a great way to deceive people...
 
A friend, who worked at Seattle Sky Sports, at the old Issaquah Airport.......packed DB Coopers parachutes.

I used to tie down my Super Cub at Issaquah. That airport should have gone on the National Register of Historic Places.

Now that area is just the east Renton slums.
 
My dad always claimed to me to have met db cooper in a bar in Oklahoma in late 70’s or so and that he flew him the next day in a PA28… Who knows, the folklore around his entire story and how many years it’s lived on is fascinating though.
 
kgruber said:
A friend, who worked at Seattle Sky Sports, at the old Issaquah Airport.......packed DB Coopers parachutes.

I used to tie down my Super Cub at Issaquah. That airport should have gone on the National Register of Historic Places.

Now that area is just the east Renton slums.
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When I was just a small lad, my family would pack up the 1960 Rambler station wagon, drive out two-lane highway 10 (now I-90) and go picnic at Seattle Sky Sports.

Bellevue Airport is now under a Microsoft campus.
 
Garavar said:
I care. Id like to know what happened. I also would like to know what happened to MH370 and who killed Elizabeth Smart.
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And JonBenet Ramsey and where is Amelia Earhart???
 
172andyou said:
"After Chanté and Richard III 'Rick' McCoy's mother died, they got in contact with Gryder - who had bothered them on and off for years while doing his own investigation"

Good to see it's not just PoA that he "bothers". :D
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I wondered how he became referenced in the media articles. This makes sense now.
 
Drawing 42G2001 (courtesy of Wright State University Libraries, Dave Gold Parachute Collection), definitively establishes that the parachute canopy found in North Carolina is a 24-foot chest (reserve) canopy manufactured to specification 42G2001-7, and is not the canopy used by the hijacker of Northwest Flight 305.

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dfs346 said:
Drawing 42G2001 (courtesy of Wright State University Libraries, Dave Gold Parachute Collection), definitively establishes that the parachute canopy found in North Carolina is a 24-foot chest (reserve) canopy manufactured to specification 42G2001-7, and is not the canopy used by the hijacker of Northwest Flight 305.
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Well that's not gonna get many views!
 
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe said:
FWIW...

"Dan Gryder has made claims to have found D.B. Cooper's parachute in North Carolina in 2022. Unfortunately, this parachute cannot be from the Cooper hijacking because it doesn't match the original case evidence whatsoever."

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From the linked transcript.

How to call someone out as a hack, without calling them a hack.

And he obviously is aware and tiptoeing around the litigious potentials.


I want you all to understand that this is not a personal attack on Dan. ​
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He's a busy guy no doubt. He has a YouTube channel with over 100,000 subscribers and he produces long form content that people out there clearly enjoy, so with everything going on in his life I doubt that he has the time to comb through thousands of these FBI documents from the early '70s and to arrange them into a searchable database, which is what I have nerdily been doing for the past several years...​
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...To reiterate what I said earlier this isn't an attack on Dan personally, I just don't think he was aware that we have the original documentation now, thanks to the newly released investigative files that were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.​
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Hopefully he can accept the original evidence, and doesn't resort to suggesting that all these modifications happened at some later date after the Cooper hijacking, even if we presume that McCoy was indeed Cooper.​
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Is he [McCoy] really going to keep evidence from a capital crime in his belongings as what, a souvenir? ​
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And then he's going to take this souvenir from his capital crime to a Master parachute rigger to have all these modifications done to it?​
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Nah. Come on. ​
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DG "discovered" that DB Cooper was the guy everyone thought was DB Cooper. Books have been written about this. Literally, why does anyone listen to him about anything at all?
 
Author Dr Bob Edwards and podcaster Francis Tapon, discussing D. B. Cooper and Flight 305 on the Wanderlearn channel. Dr Edwards wrote on his GoodReads/Amazon platform: "Despite the provocative headline on YouTube, I do not fault the FBI's handling of the case of Flight 305. Some aspects, for example the concept of the "sled test" flight, were brilliant. I think that the FBI relied on outside experts who did not provide a full picture of the uncertainties in the data, especially with regard to the flight timing, wind speeds and directions, and the distinction between the "oscillations" and the "pressure bump"."

Part 2 will be on January 3, 2025, and Part 3 on January 10, 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTJXq... (video file) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V9ow... (audio only).

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Part 2/3 of D. B. Cooper and Flight 305, with Francis Tapon and Bob Edwards, coming on the WanderLearn channel on January 3, 2025:

 
Part 3/3 of D. B. Cooper and Flight 305, with Francis Tapon and Bob Edwards, coming on the WanderLearn channel on January 10, 2025:

 
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