You can actually plot the occurrence of the event, accuracy within six months, via the amount of money extorted.
I was a young Mom returning from work in Seattle on a very rainy nite when this happened...actually think this was the nite I forgot to pick up my son at daycare...his lowlife Dad (my now ex)...who was at home, did go get him. I think I was engrossed in the DB Cooper activities as they were happening nearby.
I know it was only $200,000 but I don’t how much it weighed. If I was going to steal money, even in the 70’s, Id’ve gone for something MUCH more worthwhile. I’ve fallen out of airplanes before (for a lot less, granted) but I would’ve wanted a whole lot more than a house for a suicide mission.
He got away. They found a parachute but no body. How does that happen. Plus they found some money but not much. Probably left there to throw people off.
From the article:
The FBI is investigating whether the skull being held by Assistant State Medical Examiner Larry Lewman in 1975, found by Forest Service employees in Oregon, is Cooper's.
See article for photo of skull found in 1975.
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can’t believe anyone would wear a clip-on to a skyjacking...
Has the statute of limitations expired, or is there no expiration on Air Piracy?
I flew a charter 727 out of Lajes Field to Philadelphia in the 80’s.
Part of the flight attendant spiel before takeoff was that the plane we were on was the same plane D B Cooper jumped from in 1971.
My bit of trivia for the thread.