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Weak lol? If only he had been a 5’9 Honduran living in Pennsylvania, right?

lol try again.

Meet Milton Vordahl. Washington native. Lived in Washington in 1971.

Only mentioned when describing the parachute rig.

Speaking of Coffelt, here is a photo of him. Photos of him are pretty hard to find. For some reason you often see Coffelt being mistakenly listed as being the guy with the glasses, who is actually Canadian Jim MacDonald, a pilot who went missing in Dec 71.

That's some outstanding quality footage.

I believe that was Hal Williams, the gate agent. He made comments several times over the years that he noticed Cooper inside the terminal standing off by himself staring out the window. He described him as a real "lone-wolf" looking individual.

Love how mere days later Lynse says he wouldn't be able to recognize the man if he saw him again yet 18 years later he's supposed to when someone shoves a picture in front of his face. Doesn't ring any bells indeed.

The way that Edwards always refers to the stews as "the second stewardess" or "the junior stewardess" cracks me up. Just use their names, Bob!

Just an experiment here. Tina stated that Comp B was a very close resemblance to the hijacker, but stated that she preferred Comp A's hairline. So, here is my version of that.

My grandfather was 1/2 Choctaw (making me 1/8th obviously) and while he looked "white" he still had the jet black hair, olive complexion, and high cheekbones that Gregory pointed out. So I've never discounted the NA angle of the story just because most people referred to Cooper as a white man.

Well damn, it appears that Simmons wasn't telling a fib on In Search Of after all

Tried to improve upon Edwards' latest collage where he combined KK5-1 and the photo of the "phony Cooper" that several of the passengers and Flo raved about.

Well, not quite. He says "Fourteen witnesses have left written records of their interactions with the hijacker". He's including NWO employees not just passengers in that count. He's actually wrong on that count anyways. He appears to be counting Almstad and Simmons' post hijacking stories, so I'll stipulate to adding them as well as Mike Cooper. Crew: Scotty, Bill, Andy, Tina, Flo, Alyce PDX: Lynse, Williams Passengers: Mitchell, Lab, Gregory, House, Spreckel, Almstad, Cooper, Simmons. That's 16. He forgot about Hal Williams and I guess never came across Mike Cooper. So I guess as far as witnessing (allegedly) Cooper, you've got 13.

Yes, I agree it's a good idea. I may come up with something on it. Almstad claims to have interacted with Cooper and Tina when he standing in line for the bathroom, making a joke about Thanksgiving dinner being late because they had been in the air so long. You're also correct on the Michael Cooper story. The only other passenger that I'm aware of who claimed to have seen Cooper is Richard Simmons. He told his story on the In Search Of episode. I've timestamped it below. I'm dubious of these claims though. The FBI only ever showed photographs and got sketch suggestions from the "canonical five" passengers, Mitchell, House, Lab, Gregory, and Spreckel. It's my understanding that every passenger was interviewed by the FBI because we have a few 302's of passengers who are like "yeah I didn't see anything. I slept the whole time." I think if Almstad, Simmons, or Mike Cooper had actually seen Cooper then they'd have mentioned it and they probably would have been more involved in the investigation.

Did we ever figure out what this "radio" business was all about? In NORJAK, Himmy mentions this two-way radio conversation. Did Tina sneak a radio on board with the crew meals? In one of those it says that Tina asked the hijacker if she could get these items and mentioned a radio...but perhaps that is a misinterpretation? We never have Cooper asking for a radio so perhaps she didn't actually mention the radio to Cooper when she asked permission to go get the other stuff and while she was out there they handed her a radio with the meals? I'm not sure how to make heads or tails of this. Thoughts?

Found this clever cartoon today while going through some archives online. Chicago Tribune 1972.

I believe it to be Allen "Crazy Al" Cooper. Only photos I could find of him from the time period and his face is partially blocked. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/abqjournal/name/allen-cooper-obituary?id=36283698

I'm joking that she is the original "he look like a man" lady.

It's Nancy House.

anyone remember the old MAD-TV skit of the Asian lady who could only ever say "he look like a man" when trying to describe someone? I swear I hear that woman's voice saying "He...look like a man" every time I'm reading witness descriptions.