Posted on 03/20/2009 6:22:47 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PORTLAND, Ore. - One of the Northwest's most notorious unsolved crimes may have a comic book connection and while it may sound kooky, the FBI agent in charge of the case says the new clue is no laughing matter.
In November 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper, later mistakenly called D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle, claiming he had a bomb.
At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes and asked to be flown to Mexico. He jumped from the plane somewhere near the Oregon state line.
The hijacker was never seen or heard from again and thus one of the Northwest's most famous mysteries was born. Did he die in the jump? Did he survive and make off with the money? No one knows, although there are a number of theories out there.
Larry Carr, the FBI agent currently overseeing the case, now believes the hijacker may have taken his name from a French comic book. The Dan Cooper comic book was popular in France in the 1960s and early 1970s and one issue published around the time of the hijacking shows the character parachuting.
*D.B. Cooper Factoid: The jumper, who identified himself as Dan Cooper, later became known as D.B. Cooper after authorities questioned and then released a man named Daniel B. Cooper. That man was cleared but the name stuck.*
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If he’s alive, I raise a toast.
Figure with that rear stairway down the air coming around it must have been disturbed to say the least.
If he weren't prepared for that it must have come as a disagreeable surprise to say the least! If he panicked and pulled the cord—streamer city.
You mean aviation wasn’t invented in the sixties????
LOL!
Submarine?
Your taking my post to seriously. Didn’t click on the link, did you?
Nope, I didn’t. Maybe I should have... :-)
Bringing this back up is a provocation to get the guy to send a message saying he made it, blah, blah, blah. The FBI is counting on this guy’s pride to come out and send a message of some sort just to “prove” he succeeded. Technique works with anyone because of PRIDE. If they don’t hear anything, they can assume he died in the attempt.
Or..., he died of old age ... :-)
-PJ
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