“There is a subculture related to the Cooper hijacking-online forum calleld The Dropzone or “the DZ”..the D B Cooper thread on the DZ
called one of the "longest and liveliest".
RobertMBlevins & skyjack71 [DZ forum conversations]July 2011
The FBI did finally capture notorious Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger after 16 years.
He’s dead, Jim.
0bama killed him.
Why are they calling him a folk hero?
He stole lots of other people’s money, threatened and endangered dozens of innocents.
It’s offensive to call him a hero
I am Dan Cooper.
I have been living a quiet life on a secluded tropical island for the past 40 years.
sssshhhhh, don’t tell anyone I talked to you about it.....
Lord, I miss the '60s and '70s. I remember smoking on aircraft and free whiskey. $20 for a one-way ticket? You can't get a slice of pizza and drink in an airport for that today.
/johnny
That’s always been an intriguing story. The guy who claims his brother bought a place and paid cash shortly after the hijacking has to be wrong. The FBI (and who knows who else?) checked thoroughly for a long time to see if any of the bills with the corresponding serial numbers showed up. If some fool bought a house with it, they’d know exactly where the money was spent and they would have zeroed in on him.
$200,000?
A fella could live large on that for two years!
He became Jimmy James and bought a news radio station in NYC.
His real name is Thomas Crown.
I talked to a NorthWest airlines guy years after-the airline gave him a training parachute-sewn shut so students could learn how to fold it. He used it to jump. Years later hikers found a few bills about twenty miles from where he roman-candled into something, found them in the wash of a stream. The serial numbers matched.
He’s dead, Jim.
Except for the whole hijacking part, that was great time to fly.
$20 for a one way ticket.
You can’t check a damn bag for $20. Ticket taxes are more than $20 now.
I flew a 727 charter from Lajes Field, Azores to Philadelphia back in the mid 80’s.
As part of the preflight briefing we were informed we were flying on the 727 that Cooper hijacked.
Trivia cool.
bump.
