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As a mathematician and private pilot with some experience of parachuting, for me the most interesting aspects of the Norjak case were the aeronautical, navigational and meteorological data. What was the flight path? When and where did the hijacker jump? What was the wind speed and direction...

Back in November 2022, I posted an article on my GoodReads/Amazon platform, regarding “the man in the woolly hat” (https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/23092631-d-b-cooper-and-flight-305-the-man-in-the-woolly-hat). The essence of the story was that on October 21, 1972, LA Magazine...

Here's an extract from Fred Barnowsky's obituary in the Daily Inter Lake of Kalispell, Montana.

Here are four screenshots from the documentary film Flying Men, Flying Machines, produced by John Wilheim Productions for Air America around 1970. It shows the Boeing 727C operated by CIA front company Southern Air Transport for air drop and jump tests at Takhli, Thailand, probably in May 1968...

In 1958, Barnowsky's hairline was starting to recede and he was brushing his hair straight back. This gave him a pronounced "widow's peak". In this respect he differed from all of the FBI’s sketches of the hijacker, which depicted a parting on the left. But sometime in the 1980s, the second...

To my mind, the FBI’s early identification of Barnowsky as a suspect, followed by his elimination, merits further study. To this end, I have submitted FOIA requests to the FBI, for a copy of the US Forest Service photo of Barnowsky, and to the CIA, for documentation of Barnowsky's work for the...

(Left and upper right) Fred A. Barnowsky in 1958. Image credit: Fresno Bee, by courtesy of Joey Lyon. (Lower right) Image KK5-1 from the FBI Facial Identification Catalog of 1971 (of which the second stewardess said “that’s him, except for the hair and ears”); image credit: FBI, with my...

The FBI's latest release "D.B. Cooper Skyjacking Part 98" reveals that an early suspect in the hijacking of Flight 305 was Fred A Barnowsky, smokejumper and Redding Base Manager for the US Forest Service. Declassified CIA documents indicate that Barnowsky was a contract parachute rigger and...

Another contrarian narrative of the hijacking of Northwest Flight 305: the "Oswego scenario". It is consistent with the flight path as plotted by the US Air Force; with the radio communications between the flight crew and Northwest; with the money found at Tena Bar in 1980; and with the diatoms...

For those who are ready to consider an even more contrarian scenario (vis-a-vis the FBI's narrative): here's the USGS map of the Lake Oswego quadrangle at 1:24000 scale, with the approximate flight path of Northwest 305 on 11.24.1971 (based on USAF radar plot), and possible descent paths for the...

More on the "Milwaukie scenario" ... here's a schematic of the Victor-23 flight corridor, southbound from the Battle Ground VORTAC for 20 nautical miles on the 195 radial ...

By courtesy of the FBI: here's a third scenario on the exit point of the hijacker of Northwest Flight 305 on November 24, 1971. I'm tempted to call it the "Milwaukie scenario". https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/25011456-d-b-cooper-and-flight-305-south-of-portland

Here's a satellite photo (extract from image PAN457900, courtesy of NASA and Panoramic Images) covering approximately the same area as the USGS 1:24000 maps of the Sauvie Island, Vancouver and Orchards quadrangles, with the Victor-23 flight corridor and the approximate flight path of Northwest...

As an alternative to the "Jubitz scenario": thoughts on the "Tena Bar scenario", regarding the landing spot and escape of the hijacker of Northwest Flight 305. https://goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/25006922-d-b-cooper-and-flight-305-the-tena-bar-scenario

Another comment from former head of Norjak case (and I'm not sure what he meant): "Of course any escape plan that has Cooper much further south of Tacoma wasn't made by Cooper."

Comment received from a retired FBI agent and former head of the Norjak case: "Your facts are spot on".

Here are further thoughts on the landing spot and escape route of the hijacker of Northwest Flight 305 on November 24, 1971: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/24975250-d-b-cooper-and-flight-305-the-jubitz-scenario Author’s interpretation of the hijacker’s descent path as per the...

Also on AM950 in the Twin Cities: https://www.am950radio.com/ghostbox-radio-db-cooper-6-17-24/

Here's a video podcast on D. B. Cooper and Flight 305, with GhostBox host Greg Bakun and myself.

Browsing the declassified CIA files relating to the assassination of President Kennedy, I came across the following memorandum to file, dated 29 December 1967: "SUBJECT: Leslie Norman Bradley 1. subject was employed as a co-pilot by ZRCLIFF [a CIA cryptonym for Southern Air Transport] 4 April...