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Best Evidence That D.B. Cooper Survived? (video)
D.B. Cooper Sleuth ^ | 1/29/26 | D.B. Cooper Sleuth

Posted on 02/08/2026 5:00:55 PM PST by MAGA2017

With no actual proof informing the public one way or the other about D.B. Cooper's survival, we have to make arguments using circumstantial evidence. For years the biggest piece of circumstantial evidence used against his survival might turn out to be the biggest indication of his survival. Just my two cents.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: aviation; coopergotscuppered; crime; dbcooper; dbdrowned; dbisadb; godsgravesglyphs; hijack; hijacking; landedinthewater; plane; richardfloydmccoyii; skyjack

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Did Cooper survive?
1 posted on 02/08/2026 5:00:55 PM PST by MAGA2017
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To: MAGA2017

They should have found the body if he hadn’t. He wouldn’t have been that far from where they found the money if he hadn’t survived.

I think he survived and abandoned the money that he dropped.


2 posted on 02/08/2026 5:02:31 PM PST by Jonty30 (I always ask AI stupid questions to avoid the smart lists for elimination. I want to surprise it.)
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To: MAGA2017
As far as I know, Cooper didn't kill anyone or injure anyone. I'll give him a pass.

3 posted on 02/08/2026 5:05:17 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: MAGA2017
I did my part.

In the mid eighties, I wrote on the restroom stalls at trucks stops in Texas, LA, AR, OK & MS…”I am alive, DB Cooper”.

4 posted on 02/08/2026 5:20:01 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Deaf Smith

I wonder if any G Men looked at your messages.


5 posted on 02/08/2026 5:24:07 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Jonty30
I think that the money was planted as a misdirection to suggest that Cooper was dead. Clued in by the military and CIA, the FBI learned pretty quickly who D. B. Cooper was and, at the highest levels, ran a pretend investigation as part of a coverup.

The reason was that Cooper had been part of highly secret paramilitary missions overseas and could not be prosecuted. The hijacking was Cooper's way of getting pay that he believed he was due.

6 posted on 02/08/2026 5:24:13 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: Steely Tom

Gave them something to do.


7 posted on 02/08/2026 5:27:02 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: MAGA2017
Jimmy James, owner of WNYX radio station in New York City was outed as D.B. Cooper.

From the TV comedy "Newsradio":



8 posted on 02/08/2026 5:44:13 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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The rest of the keyword, sorted:

9 posted on 02/08/2026 5:54:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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Richard Floyd McCoy II. Dead for years.

10 posted on 02/08/2026 5:59:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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Video Transcript Summary

On February 10, 1980, 8-year-old Brian Ingram discovered approximately $5,800 (about $6,000) in deteriorating $20 bills—three bundled packets with rubber bands still intact—while digging a fire pit in the sand at Tena Bar (also spelled Tina Bar), a beach along the Columbia River in Washington state.

The bills were confirmed by the FBI as part of the $200,000 ransom paid to hijacker D.B. Cooper during the November 24, 1971, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 hijacking, based on recorded serial numbers.

The discovery occurred roughly 9 years after the hijacking. Many initially interpreted it as evidence that Cooper died, possibly by landing in or near the Columbia River without surviving the jump or parachute descent.

The text argues against this interpretation, asserting it supports Cooper's survival instead. It states the aircraft's flight path after takeoff from Seattle followed Victor 23 airway southward, tracked precisely by U.S. Air Force SAGE radar (accurate to within about a quarter mile) with no uncertainty in the plane's location.

Cockpit transcripts recorded a "pressure bump" at approximately 8:11 p.m. (widened here to 8:10–8:13 p.m.), attributed to the rear airstairs slamming up after Cooper's exit, causing a sudden pressure change.

With northeast winds around 10 mph, if Cooper opened his parachute promptly, he would have drifted 2–3 miles northeast from the exit point. The FBI's estimated drop zone placed his landing near Highland, east of Le Center, roughly 15–20 miles north of where Flight 305 crossed the Columbia River that night, and significantly farther from Tena Bar.

The text contends that for the money to reach Tena Bar if Cooper died in the drop zone would require improbable scenarios, such as someone discovering his body, removing the money bag, burying the remains and gear thoroughly (with nothing found in decades), then transporting and burying or discarding the cash 15+ miles away on the sandbar.

It dismisses alternatives like money detaching from the stairs and falling precisely over the river during a brief crossing window.

Thus, the text concludes the money's presence at Tena Bar—far from the calculated drop zone—is stronger evidence that Cooper survived the jump and moved the cash himself, rather than any death-related dispersal. The mechanism by which the money arrived at Tena Bar remains unexplained.

11 posted on 02/08/2026 5:59:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies with Democrats.)
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Who do you think kidnapped Nancy Guthrie?


12 posted on 02/08/2026 6:01:30 PM PST by BipolarBob (Homer: A doughnut in each hand is a balanced diet.)
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To: MAGA2017

Who knows?


13 posted on 02/08/2026 6:23:21 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: BipolarBob

Nancy wasn’t kidnapped. She took an Uber to her daughter’s house willingly, then was murdered. This is why she didn’t take an Uber back home and never went back home. The alleged “crime scene” at her house was STAGED (including the blood drops on her porch) to cover up the fact she was a victim of MURDER FOR INHERITANCE.


14 posted on 02/08/2026 6:39:57 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I tend to agree.


15 posted on 02/08/2026 6:55:59 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: MAGA2017

Good question.


16 posted on 02/08/2026 7:18:42 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I read somewhere there had been much flooding in the area over the years, and the location the cash was discovered was by no means necessarily anywhere close to where it had landed. The bundles were highly eroded, as one might expect if it had been tumbling around in a river.

Notably, none of the currency has ever turned up in circulation or banks anywhere, the serial numbers were recorded. What good is 200 large if you didn’t spend it. I think he must have been killed. Defective chute?


17 posted on 02/08/2026 7:52:25 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: MAGA2017

Cooper tossed some of the money as a ruse to lead people to believe he died in the jump. Rivers are notorious for migrating their channel, maybe that sort of thing complicated the eventual location of the money


18 posted on 02/08/2026 7:53:00 PM PST by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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