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That wasn't his real name, of course, as everyone knows. Or maybe everyone doesn't know, not 36 years after a man who became known as D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 between Portland and Seattle, demanded $200,000 in cash and four parachutes from Northwest Airlines, ordered the plane to fly from Seattle to Mexico City and, somewhere over southwest Washington, bailed out with the money, never to be seen again. .....the question remains..Where is he??
Vin ;)

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He is Dead

William Gossett

He died of natural causes in 2003..age 73..........so this guy says.

Nice screen shots.............

$200,000.00 in 1971 had the same buying power as $1,085,170.85 in 2010.
Annual inflation over this period was 4.43%. But according to his sons.......he blew it all on
strippers, blackjack, and craps in the late 70's and early 80's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
 
Interesting...who is this guy?....how about the money I wonder?..I remember extensive searchs for both Coper and the cash...at that time ..no Luck.....gotta admit the guy had a great plan,and the Brass Nuts to do it.......I like the plane ,that rear ramp,so convenient for this..I do not know the air speed when he jumped!....Still a mystery I would think..thanx!!
 
Some of the money, confirmed by serial numbers, was apparently found on the banks of the Columbia River several years ago.

A few years ago, an old parachute was found in the forest of SW Washington and was thought to be his, but further investigation proved that its design and construction postdated Cooper's parachute by several years and thus that lead went dead too.
 
RE: One reason given by FBI why D.B. Cooper didn't survive the jump

I lifted the below paragraph from Wikipedia. I've read/heard this theory before which seems to make sense. (Ingram BTW is the boy who discovered the cash along the banks of the Columbia River back in 1980.) What's cool about the whole ordeal and what happened to ol' D.B,....no one really knows what happened to him or the rest of the loot. A real mysterious anti-hero.


Ingram's discovery of the $5,880 reinforced the F.B.I.'s belief that Cooper probably did not survive the jump, in large part because of the unlikelihood that such a criminal would be willing to leave behind any of the loot for which he had risked his life. Authorities eventually allowed Ingram to keep a split of about $2,860 of the recovered money, with the amount being a rough estimate because of the badly deteriorated condition of the bills. On June 13, 2008, in accordance with Ingram's wishes, the Heritage Auction Galleries' Americana Memorabilia Grand Format Auction in Dallas, Texas sold fifteen of the bills to various buyers for a total of more than $37,000.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference">[40]</sup> As of 2010<sup class="plainlinks noprint asof-tag update" style="display: none;">[update]</sup>, the rest of the money remains unrecovered. The serial numbers of all 9,998 $20 bills that the hijacker was given were databased and placed in a search engine for public search.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference">[41]</sup>
 
Speed and Altitude

200mph?

and

10,000 feet?

out the back..........??

why can't someone survive that?

He dropped some loot..........3% fell out of the bag..........I could live with that.
 
I can try to dig it up but the Far Side artist offered his theory. His cartoon showed a pair of pants with sneakers sticking up from the ground and something about you should never demand a parachute from people you just robbed of everything. I still laugh.
 
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