[DUMBGRUNT]

Elevation can be deceiving. Never cut away until your feet are splashing in the water. Sliding down a reserve is one slippery chute. Very difficult to exit the woods with a compound fracture of the tibia and fibula.

[wastoute]

When I went to jump school I did one jump from a C-140. We were told 120 mph is the slowest the plane can go and stay in the air. I am telling you that jumping at 120 mph is no picnic, even with the door baffle. My question is, “What speed was the airplane (a commercial airliner) going when DB exited?” I suspect it was greater than 200 mph. I doubt DB survived the exit.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I got suckered into watching the two-part History Channel series on this. Never have I seen so much made of a “case” constructed out of the most slender shreds of non-evidence. The investigators’ theory was not credible at all. Just done to fill four hours of TV (that I’ll never get back).

[ozzymandus]

DB Cooper is a few scattered bones in the forest somewhere.

[PROCON]

This has always been a fascinating story to me having grown up in that part of the country.

After the story broke, besides police searches, there were numerous self-proclaimed bounty hunters and other treasure seekers scouring the forests and river areas in S. Washington state where D.B. allegedly jumped.

These hunts went on for years after it happened.

Only thing they ever found were Sasquatch footprints :-)

[Karl Spooner]

Old D B made a clean getaway. No sir, they’ll never catch D B Cooper or will they admit that the money was laundered to buy gold.