D.B. Cooper...41 years ago today

[Spookwriter]

Hi-jacked himself an airplane forty one years
ago day and got clean away...

I know hi-jacking an airplane might be a bad
ideal but I've always admired the story.

 

[Capvin]

Spook... Hijacking the plane was the easy part compared to his jumping out the back at night in the mountains. If getting clean away means nobody ever found the body, then I guess he got clean away. He was most likely killed in those mountains and eaten by bears and such.

 

[Imp]

Hi-jacked himself an airplane forty one years
ago day and got clean away...

I know hi-jacking an airplane might be a bad
ideal but I've always admired the story.

Funny how he's become a folk hero, isn't it?

Imp

 

[cupman]

If I was a gamblin man I'd say he drowned in the Columbia River but you never know.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I have always had an interest in this story. I always hoped that he survived. :/

 

[oldrooster]

I think we will never know, heard part of an interview ealier this year on npr on this and they believe he lived the jump and made it out of the wilderness but they where not 100% sure. I missed the name of the book and author/investigator but he was convinced he lived and made a life for himself afterwards.

 

[Capvin]

I don't buy it. I am a little familiar about jumping out of airplanes and jumping out of the rear steps of a 727 in daylight under good conditions would be possible. But this was night time. The wind chill was -70 degrees and freezing rain. He had an inferior parachute and was dressed in a trench coal with loafers. I would be amazed if he even was able to get his chute open.