D.B. Cooper

DangerousDave · Post by **DangerousDave** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:24 am

I was just wondering. I'm not him. I was born in 1964, so I was only about 8 years old. This D.B. Cooper, is a real Batman John Dillinger, or something. He must have got away with his crime, or else the Gov't would'nt have dissed it. Anyone?

dirtbag · Post by **dirtbag** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:45 am

He parachuted into a large wilderness, and is probably still hanging from a tall tree in his chute.
Some of the money was found partially buried in a sand-bar on a river some years later...
We'll probably never know.

Post by **kman** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:18 am

Wikipedia has some interesting info on him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

I saw a piece on Dateline or some show like that a few weeks ago where they were going over the DB Cooper case again. Apparently, they've been using DNA lately to exclude people who they had always thought were DB. IIRC, they had a sample of DB's DNA from something he touched or used.

DangerousDave · Post by **DangerousDave** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:10 pm

Hey Dirtbag, just because someone jumped out the back of an aircraft, over the wilderness, does'nt mean he landed on a 75' tall pine tree, and impaled himself. As for the cash found on the creek bank, years later, could have been a smoke screen, or who knows what. We have guys jumping out of aircraft over the wilderness all the time. Parachutes can be steered. The FBI just recently re-opened the case, cause they want to know who the guy was. Yea, right. An earlier FBI investigation stated the guy was a former Army helicopter pilot with ties to Special Forces. Hmmm.

dirtbag · Post by **dirtbag** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:52 am

Errr, it was dark, way before night vision, the parachute's of the day were round and NOT steerable, and none of the other bills have ever turned up.....
Perhaps UFO'S snatched him up

Insert your theory here _________________________
'nuff said

DangerousDave · Post by **DangerousDave** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:44 am

Yea they were, not as steerable as the new one's. You can still make an old chute turn, by pulling hard. As for night vision, maybe it was a clear night. Crap, I think the guy got away with the perfect crime. Hell, for 200K, I'd jump out the back of a A-5 Vigilante in the night.

dirtbag · Post by **dirtbag** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:16 am

Ain't enough money to get me to jump out of a perfectly good airplane...

On fire and going down, well, thats another story...

C-rats · Post by **C-rats** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 1:28 pm

And in this corner we have......

DangerousDave · Post by **DangerousDave** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:45 pm

The guy made it. According to the reports I've seen all over the web, the FBI was like, it was pouring down rain, he jumped at 10K feet, did'nt have the pilot(s) fly a specific azimuth, etc, etc. CRAP. He got away with it, and he was'nt a woman, according to some silly crap on the internet.

(This is just my opinion)!

Treesuit · Post by **Treesuit** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:35 am

Hey guys,

Here's one take on the theory. Back in the early 70's the civilian skydiving chutes were pretty steerable, the wikipedia story mentions that D.B. Cooper wanted 4 skydiving chutes not military ones.

As early as 1972 the Bureau of Land Management was phasing into their aerial firefighting system several of the new RAM-AIR box like steerable chutes for aerial firefighting in Alaska rather than the round hard to steer ones. If the FBI gave D.B. Cooper something like these chutes from a civilian skydiving school nearby the chance of him getting safely to the ground is pretty good even in bad weather and at that low of an altitude.