DB Cooper has been the topic of Drop Zone conversations for years. The jump he made is perfectly doable by anyone trained in the practical application of aerodynamic decelerators. Albeit it was an extremely risky jump as I’ll detail below.
As a matter of fact I’ve gone out the air stairs of a 727. It was at the 1999 at the World Freefall Convention in Quincy, IL. It was fun, but a 727 on jump run is doing about 180kias when normal skydiving operations are around 90kias. It won’t injure you, but it feels like you’re getting hit by a ton of bricks. So not the funnest jump and I only did one, to say I did it. Going out the bomb bay of a B-17 (Nine-O-Nines RIP) was a lot more fun.
The general consensus in the skydiving community is that Cooper lived, but was probably injured. He jumped a round parachute, at night, in poor weather conditions. Even with modern gear that kind jump is extremely risky. Round parachutes go down where the wind blows them after exit. There is a little bit of control with a round, but nothing like a ram air chute.
He probably had a vehicle stashed close to the drop zone and was able to get to it with most of the money. If I recall correctly some of the money was discovered on a creek or riverbank some time later. He probably lived the rest of his life in secure obscurity… Or he might even still be alive.
Only he knows for sure.
And how they also fucked up the investigation by future proofing it for him. Dan Cooper (that’s what he wrote his name as) smoked several cigarettes and kept the butts on the plane, and he had several drinks and… they just threw away the stir sticks he used and also the cigarette butts, hence foiling any attempts to get dna down the line.
Some cases from the 70s and even 60s were solved because some DNA survived on evidence collected. But that was impossible for this case since none were saved.
DB Cooper was Loki, they revealed it in Season 2
Coming to the realization that proper use of free will really does open up so much in life is such a profound benefit.
You can just do shit.
To quote Edward Fox’s character in The Day of the Jackal… it can be done with enough time and planning… the problem is getting away with it.
It was obviously Tommy Wiseau, how else did he get the money to make his hit movie The Room.
I still think that this is the most entertaining theory. Tommy Wiseau does, too.
I’m one of today’s lucky 10,000! Thank you, friend! <3
No body found means that he’s still up there somewhere
He could even be on your plane right now!
There’s…… something…… on…… the wing!
Some… …thing!
They say 1 out of 10 people don’t even make it to the ground
The leading theory is he was a CIA operative, because jumping from the rear stairs like that was something they did in the field.
And the leading theory was he survived, because there was a copycat crime, which worked until the guy was caught on the ground, with the cash.
It just gets crazier the deeper you go.
The weather was terrible for a jump. Nobody who had training would have tried it.
He almost certainly died in the jump.
He also made an offhand comment about the airline, and that suggests a revenge motive.
If he died in the jump they would have eventually found a body. At the very least he survived long enough to vacate the area.
“You are, without doubt, the worst skyjacker I have ever heard of.”
But you have heard of me?
Doing a DB Pooper to celebrate
Damn, I saw some guy on YouTube last year going through the parachutes harnesses in a barn of a deceased suspect (with permission) and he found the chute while talking to the camera. Was just turning over over on vest at a time in a box and stopped and said “this is it, we found it.”
I think the tape said they turned it over to the FBI? Anyone with more info?
Found the clip:
It would be wild if DB Cooper followed up by watching for who would come out as a suspect and then planted the evidence on their relative’s property after they died.
Huh.
Here’s a Popular Mechanics article that’s exactly one year old: A Secret Parachute in the FBI’s Possession May Have Finally Solved D.B. Cooper’s Identity
And here’s the FBI’s web page over it, which notes they diverted resources to other investigations in 2016, but specifically names McCoy as a favored suspect: D.B. Cooper Hijacking
As far as updates go? I only have sardonic comments about what the FBI is to these days. But I don’t think they are going to work on this one anytime soon.
Thanks! That article linked to the YouTube series I was thinking of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3DkEmL6aWc&list=PLSFLiSP0zf-btON5DAH8OTmiyv3VRDU-R
This is the moment I mentioned:
Sounds like he’s going for views
It worked, he got over 100k worth:
Just think of all the crazy shit you might be able to pull off if you had cajones the size of cantaloupes.
I always had issues with that phrase. The first thing I would do is go to the hospital, since that is a sign of a massive hernia. Also, cajones means drawers or boxes, the word you’re looking for is cojones.
When using aphorisms, please try and Google them.
A pet peeve of mine is gratuitous and incorrect use of my native languages.
When using aphorisms, please try and Google them.
Cajones has been a slang term for “balls” or “bravery” or “having the guts” for over a hundred years. So not only are you being a pedantic prick, you are also a wrong pedantic prick. If you are going to be a pedantic prick, you should be the one to google if you are even right first. I grew up in a Spanish/ English speaking community, this is the word we used (although we used huevos too, but that literally meant like, your balls; less “having the balls”, or having courage to stand up to someone). It should occur to you that you don’t have a monopoly over the use of language, so maybe check that.
Would you kindly read the article you linked? It literally says the entry is for COJONES, not CAJONES.
This is just like some Americans getting upset and doubling down when people point out that Colombia is the name of a country, and it is not spelled Columbia(Unlike the several places called Columbia in their country).
Edited to add the screenshot.
My misspelling it doesn’t change its meaning, which is obvious in its context.
Again, pedantry.
My neighbors growing up had a sign: “what would you do if you could not fail?” …
I decline to answer that question on grounds it might incriminate me.
Loki
