I would like to think that D. B. Cooper is alive and well
The odds are against him being alive.
He’d be at least 80 by now and possibly 100 years, if he were alive.
Or maybe some elk had HIM fer supper.
In 2007, the FBI announced that one of the two parachutes obtained from the Seattle skydiving school was a dummy 'chute. A classroom 'chute that was nonfunctioning and had an inoperable ripcord. The FBI said that the dummy parachute was procured in haste and provided as one of the two as an 'accident' (heh, heh). Cooper cannibalized the working chute and probably used the shrounds to secure the money bag to his body.
If this is true, Cooper didn't survive the plunge from the airliner without a parachute.
It does make you wonder why the FBI looked for him, or his body, for so long without announcing that they were looking for splatter marks.
Source: http://www.katu.com/news/weird/12985152.html - Man who found D. B. Cooper money to auction it off.
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