Posted on 11/24/2021 5:14:04 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain
One minute, Dan Cooper was a real man. Of course, “Dan Cooper” may not have been the name on his birth certificate, but his body was corporeal enough as he stood in a Boeing 727-100 on November 24, 1971. A stairway dangled dangerously from the belly of the near-empty airliner flying over southwestern Washington. No one knows whether he leapt confidently off those open steps from 10,000 feet in the air, or maybe closed his eyes and inched downward into the storm outside. But exit he did, and in that moment birthed something new: one of Washington’s biggest legends.
Fifty years later, we call that question mark D.B. Cooper, and there’s nothing person-like about him anymore. The criminal-shaped hole of D.B. Cooper—the initials arose from a reporter’s transcription error—filled with accusation and acclaim, suspicion and swagger, overflowing with America’s runaway imagination. Countless lives have been shaped by the pursuit of one measly criminal who made off with $200,000.
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The statue of limitation has passed so if he was alive he could come forward and ID himself. Actually someone would pay more then $200,000 for a book deal. I think he died that night.
Yes, as they say, settied science.
I thought I had read years ago they found a lot of the money scattered all around.
WHat wiould Doctor McCoy say?
I believe that DB was part of the team to kill Kennedy, the hijack was a distraction, DB parachutes out of the plane, is rescued by a Russian commando team that had been hiding in the wood and escorted to the coast where they all met up with a hidden Russian sub.
It’s my understanding that no bills with matching serial numbers, other than those found bundled along the Columbia River in 1980, have ever surfaced. This tells me the money was never spent and the hijacker died that night.
I disagree ... spelling is not hard. Getting the letters in your brain translated to muscular action (ie typing)is hard. As one approaches maturity things don’t get much better ...
A few years after he jumped into the storm clouds, a case of money traced to his loot was found in a creek, well rotted.
Since he did not know what he was jumping into due to the clouds and storm he probably slammed into the ground in an unknown area.
It was not like the movie in which he jumped into a clear sky with no storms.
My goodness!
Just noticed you must be a fellow Larry Nevin fan, also!
I hope your wife is as lucky as Teela!
Big foot caught him in his arms and then a UFO beamed both of them on board their craft.
Then the UFO crash landed into the Loch Ness...
Michael Flynn.
re: “I also recall that the FBI managed to record the denomination and serial number of every bill before delivering the ransom.”
WHAT are the chances - they (FIB) lied? They may only have tallied a small sample of the bills (DEADLINES are deadlines after all; they had a schedule to meet.)
They botched some of the investigation of the DB Cooper case BTW.
Effort to solve D.B. Cooper mystery continues 50 years later
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