.D. B. Cooper is the name attributed to a man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the United States on November 24, 1971, received US$200,000^[1] in ransom, and parachuted from the plane.^ One such example is D.B. Cooper, the man who hijacked a plane in 1971 and then jumped from it with $200,000 in a ransom payout.

• Search for D.B. Cooper revived - article - Martiniboys.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.martiniboys.com [Source type: General]

^ "Dan Burkett Cooper") was an alias of an aircraft hijacker who, on November 24, 1971, after receiving a ransom payout of US$200,000, jumped from a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest of the United States somewhere over the Cascade Mountains in Washington.

• Warren Kinsella - D. B. COOPER, IS THAT YOUR PARACHUTE? 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.warrenkinsella.com [Source type: General]

^ Hijacking of aircraft -- United States -- Case studies.

• D.B. Cooper, the real McCoy (Book, 1991) [WorldCat.org] 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.worldcat.org [Source type: General]

.The name he used to board the plane was Dan Cooper, but through a later press miscommunication, he became known as "D. B. Cooper". Despite hundreds of leads through the years, no conclusive evidence has ever surfaced regarding Cooper's true identity or whereabouts, and the bulk of the money has never been recovered.^ Not a trace of Dan Cooper or the money was found.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The man gave his name as Dan Cooper.

• What Happened to D.B.Cooper? - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.associatedcontent.com [Source type: General]

^ No conclusive evidence has surfaced regarding Cooper's whereabouts.

• Warren Kinsella - D. B. COOPER, IS THAT YOUR PARACHUTE? 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.warrenkinsella.com [Source type: General]

.Several theories offer competing explanations of what happened after his famed jump, but the FBI believes he did not survive.^ Several theories offer competing explanations of what happened.

• Warren Kinsella - D. B. COOPER, IS THAT YOUR PARACHUTE? 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.warrenkinsella.com [Source type: General]

^ The FBI says he did not survive the jump.

• Warren Kinsella - D. B. COOPER, IS THAT YOUR PARACHUTE? 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.warrenkinsella.com [Source type: General]

^ No conclusive evidence has ever surfaced regarding Cooper's whereabouts, and several theories offer competing explanations of what happened after his famed jump.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[2]

.The nature of Cooper's escape and the uncertainty of his fate continue to intrigue people.^ The nature of Cooper's escape and the uncertainty of his fate continue to intrigue people.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• "Ajacks' I Don't Know Why, I just do": D. B. Cooper - November 24, 1971 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC wb9otx.blogspot.com [Source type: General]

.The Cooper case (code-named "Norjak" by the FBI)^[3] is the only unsolved U.S. aircraft hijacking,^[4] and one of the few such cases anywhere in the world, along with Malaysia Airlines Flight 653.^ Today, the D.B. Cooper case remains the world's only unsolved skyjacking.

• D.B. Cooper - Mysteries of History - U.S. News Online 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.usnews.com [Source type: News]

^ It is the nation's only unsolved hijacking.

• D.B. Cooper, where are you? 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.seattlepi.com [Source type: News]

^ The Cooper case still remains on the FBI books as the only unsolved airplane hijacking in American history.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

.The Cooper case has baffled government and private investigators for decades, with countless leads turning into dead ends.^ D.B. Cooper's case has yielded little but dead ends for law enforcement.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]
• CNN - D.B Cooper is gone, but his legend lives on - Nov. 23, 1996 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.cnn.com [Source type: News]
• CNN - D.B Cooper is gone, but his legend lives on - Nov. 23, 1996 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.cnn.com [Source type: News]

^ New leads in the DB Cooper case?

• Summa Minutiae 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC members.wolfram.com [Source type: General]

^ The Cooper case has baffled government and private investigators for decades, with countless leads turning into dead ends.

• "Ajacks' I Don't Know Why, I just do": D. B. Cooper - November 24, 1971 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC wb9otx.blogspot.com [Source type: General]

.As late as March 2008, the FBI thought it might have had a breakthrough when children unearthed a parachute within the bounds of Cooper's probable jump site near the town of Amboy, Washington.^ On that flight, he jumped out with a parachute near the Oregon-Washington line.

• FOXNews.com - D.B. Cooper Skyjacking Cash Sold in Dallas Auction - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.foxnews.com [Source type: News]

^ Now, children playing near Amboy, Washington have apparently discovered the white parachute that Cooper used to jump off the plane.

• D.B. Cooper Parachute Found 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.digitalalchemy.tv [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ As late as March 2008, the FBI thought it might have had a breakthrough when children unearthed a parachute within the bounds of Cooper's probable jump site near the town of Amboy, Washington.

• "Ajacks' I Don't Know Why, I just do": D. B. Cooper - November 24, 1971 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC wb9otx.blogspot.com [Source type: General]

^[5] Experts later determined that it did not belong to the hijacker.

.Despite the case's enduring lack of evidence, a few significant clues have arisen.^ Despite massive ground searches of Ariel, Wash., and the Lake Merwin Dam of the Lewis River, no trace of evidence was found and the case remained a mystery.

• D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case : Investigation Discovery 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]
• D.B. Cooper Hijacking: Top 10 FBI Cases: Investigation Discovery 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]
• New Leads Sought in D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case: The Criminal Report Daily : Investigation Discovery 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.discovery.com [Source type: General]

.In late 1978 a placard containing instructions on how to lower the aft stairs of a 727, later confirmed to be from the rear stairway of the plane from which Cooper jumped, was found just a few flying minutes north of Cooper's projected drop zone.^ It was in fact the aft stairs that D.B. Cooper left the plane by.

• D.B Cooper - Crime 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.bellaonline.com [Source type: News]
• D.B Cooper - Crime 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.bellaonline.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Six minutes later, a warning light indicated that the 727's built-in rear stairway had been lowered.

• HistoryLink.org- the Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.historylink.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Twenty minutes or so after takeoff, the man lowered the stairs at the back of the Boeing 727 and jumped.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]
• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

.In February 1980 on the banks of the Columbia River, eight-year-old Brian Ingram found $5,880 in decaying $20 bills, which proved to be part of the original ransom.^ In February 1980, the bills that were sold last week were found while 8-year old Brian Ingram was digging in the sand along the Columbia River (it divided Washington and Oregon).

• The Seattle Traveler » The Legend & Money of D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.theseattletraveler.com [Source type: News]

^ Today and tomorrow only, you can bid on 15 of the bills discovered by eight-year-old Brian Ingram on the banks of the Columbia 28 years ago.

• Bid on D.B. Cooper Cash - Seattlest: Seattle News, Food, Arts & Events 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC seattlest.com [Source type: General]

^ I was eight years old and on vacation with my parents on February 10, 1980, when I found about $5,800 of the ransom money along the banks of the Columbia River near Vancouver, Washington,” Ingram recalled.

• PCGS Currency - PCGS Currency Certifies Legendary “D.B. Cooper” Skyjacking Ransom Notes 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.pcgscurrency.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[6]

.In October 2007, the FBI claimed that it had obtained a partial DNA profile of Cooper from the tie he left on the hijacked plane.^ FBI using DNA from tie in D.B. Cooper case .

• Investigators: FBI unveils new evidence in D.B. Cooper case | Local News | Seattle News, Local News, Breaking News, Weather | KING5.com 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.king5.com [Source type: News]

^ Now all the FBI has is a partial profile obtained from saliva found on the tie left on the plane by the skyjacker.

• D.B. Cooper a West Seattle transsexual? - Citizen Rain 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.citizenrain.com [Source type: General]

^ In October of 2007, the FBI announced it obtained a partial DNA profile of Cooper from the tie he left on the hijacked plane.

• D.B. COOPER Biography - Crimes, Laws and people 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.findbiography.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[7] .On December 31, 2007, the FBI revived the unclosed case by publishing never-before-seen composite sketches and fact sheets online in an attempt to trigger memories that could possibly identify Cooper.^ December 31, 2007 The 36-year-old case of D.B. Cooper remains unsolved.

• FBI renews interest in D.B. Cooper | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC minnesota.publicradio.org [Source type: News]

^ December 31 ,2007 The FBI seeks help solving hijacking case .

• FBI seeks help to solve 36 year old D.B .Cooper case | 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.babelation.com [Source type: General]

^ After that night Cooper was never seen or heard from again.

• What Happened to D.B.Cooper? - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.associatedcontent.com [Source type: General]

.In a press release, the FBI reiterated that it does not believe Cooper survived the jump, but expressed an interest in ascertaining his identity.^ The FBI says he did not survive the jump.

• Warren Kinsella - D. B. COOPER, IS THAT YOUR PARACHUTE? 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.warrenkinsella.com [Source type: General]

^ Agents don’t believe he survived the jump.

• D.B. Cooper Hijack Clue – Buried Parachute (Photos) | Bitten and Bound 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.bittenandbound.com [Source type: General]

^ FBI releases Cooper info .

• Investigator claims he found D.B. Cooper - in Oregon | Local News | kgw.com | News for Portland Oregon and SW Washington 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.kgw.com [Source type: News]

^[7][8]

.On Wednesday, November 24, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving in the United States, a man traveling under the name Dan Cooper boarded a Boeing 727-100, Northwest Orient (subsequently Northwest Airlines, now part of Delta Air Lines) Flight 305 (FAA Reg.^ Thus a man calling himself "Dan Cooper" was able to board Northwest Airlines Flight 305 with a briefcase filled with what appeared to be explosives.

• HistoryLink.org- the Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.historylink.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The plane was a Boeing 727-100, and it was the day before Thanksgiving.

• The Seattle Traveler » The Legend & Money of D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.theseattletraveler.com [Source type: News]

^ The man gave his name as Dan Cooper.

• What Happened to D.B.Cooper? - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.associatedcontent.com [Source type: General]

.N467US), flying from Portland International Airport (PDX) in Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington.^ He got on board in Portland, Oregon, north bound for the Seattle-Tacoma (known locally as SEA-TAC) Airport in Seattle, Washington.

• Aero.com - "Parachuting" 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.aero.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ After the airplane took off from the Seattle airport, he told the pilot to fly to Mexico.

• The Lost Hijacker: D.b. Cooper | Socyberty 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC socyberty.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ When the plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, he released the passengers in exchange for $US200,000 and asked to be flown to Mexico.

• Parachute opens new clues to daring D.B. Cooper heist - World - smh.com.au 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.smh.com.au [Source type: News]
• Parachute opens new clues to daring D.B. Cooper heist - World - smh.com.au 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.smh.com.au [Source type: News]

^[9] .Cooper was described as being in his mid-forties, and between 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) and 6 feet (1.83 m) tall.^ Cooper agreed to pit stop in Reno , only if the plane fly no faster than 170 mph nor climb above 10,000 feet.

• D.B. Cooper And The Money He Took - Seattlest 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC seattlest.com [Source type: General]

^ Cooper directed the crew to head for Mexico, but at an altitude no higher than 10,000 feet and with flaps and landing gear down to restrict airspeed.

• HistoryLink.org- the Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.historylink.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Cooper was a quiet man who appeared to be in his mid-forties, wearing a business suit with a black tie and white shirt.

• Federal Bureau of Investigation - Press Room - Headline Archives 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.fbi.gov [Source type: General]

.He wore a black raincoat, loafers, a dark suit, a neatly pressed white collared shirt, a black necktie, black sunglasses and a mother of pearl tie pin.^ I have a bomb" The skyjacker wore a dark suit and tie, white shirt, pearl tie tack, short dark hair.

• D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC home.earthlink.net [Source type: Original source]

^ The skyjacker wore a dark suit and tie, white shirt, pearl tie tack, short dark hair.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ He wore a dark suit, dark tie, white shirt and the sunglasses, which he never took off, and chain-smoked.

• Fake Newspapers, Gag Birthday Gifts; TrixiePixGraphics.Com: Hijacker DB Cooper Caught! 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.trixiepixgraphics.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[10] .Cooper sat in the back of the plane in seat 18C. After the jet had taken off from Portland, he handed a note to a young flight attendant named Florence Schaffner,^[11] who was seated in a jumpseat attached to the aft stair door, situated directly behind and to the left of Cooper's seat.^ It was in fact the aft stairs that D.B. Cooper left the plane by.

• D.B Cooper - Crime 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.bellaonline.com [Source type: News]
• D.B Cooper - Crime 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.bellaonline.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Moments after takeoff Cooper handed one of the flight attendants a note.

• What Happened to D.B.Cooper? - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.associatedcontent.com [Source type: General]

^ The tie was the only piece of evidence left behind by Cooper on the plane.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]
• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

.She thought he was giving her his phone number, so she slipped it, unopened, into her pocket.^ She thought he was giving her his phone number, so she slipped it, unopened, into her pocket.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ She thought he was hitting on her so she slipped it, unopened, into her pocket.

• D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC home.earthlink.net [Source type: Original source]
• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ Being used to receiving notes from men traveling alone, the flight attendant put the note in her pocket assuming it to be a phone or hotel room number.

• What Happened to D.B.Cooper? - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.associatedcontent.com [Source type: General]

^[12] .Cooper leaned closer and said, "Miss, you'd better look at that note.^ Cooper leaned closer: "Miss, you'd better look at that note.

• Local News | D.B. Cooper puzzle: The legend turns 30 | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ Cooper leaned closer, "Miss, you'd better look at that note.

• D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC home.earthlink.net [Source type: Original source]
• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ The man leaned closer to her and said, "Miss, you'd better look at that note--I have a bomb."

• Mike's Comment of the Week - D.B. COOPER--THE REAL MC COY 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.gasdetection.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

I have a bomb."^[13] .In the envelope was a note that read: "I have a bomb in my briefcase.^ "I have a bomb in my briefcase.

• The unsolved crime of the century: the hunt for D B Cooper - Americas, World - The Independent 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ The note said: "I have a bomb in my briefcase.

• The Seattle Traveler » The Legend & Money of D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.theseattletraveler.com [Source type: News]

^ In the envelope was a note that said, "I have a bomb in my briefcase.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

I will use it if necessary. .I want you to sit next to me.^ I want you to sit next to me.

• The Seattle Traveler » The Legend & Money of D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.theseattletraveler.com [Source type: News]
• D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case : Investigation Discovery 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]
• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• D.B. Cooper Hijacking: Top 10 FBI Cases: Investigation Discovery 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]
• New Leads Sought in D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case: The Criminal Report Daily : Investigation Discovery 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.discovery.com [Source type: General]

^ I want you to sit beside me," the note read.

• The unsolved crime of the century: the hunt for D B Cooper - Americas, World - The Independent 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: News]

.You are being hijacked."^ You are being hijacked."

• The Seattle Traveler » The Legend & Money of D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.theseattletraveler.com [Source type: News]
• D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case : Investigation Discovery 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]
• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• D.B. Cooper Hijacking: Top 10 FBI Cases: Investigation Discovery 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]
• New Leads Sought in D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case: The Criminal Report Daily : Investigation Discovery 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.discovery.com [Source type: General]

^[14]

.The note also provided demands for $200,000, in unmarked bills, and two sets of parachutes—two main back chutes and two emergency chest chutes.^ In Seattle, he demanded and got $200,000 and four parachutes and demanded to be flown to Mexico.

• Texas man claims to be D.B. Cooper's brother | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Local & Regional 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.komonews.com [Source type: News]

^ He demanded $200,000 and parachutes.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]
• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

^ He claimed to have a bomb and demanded a ransom of $100,000 and two parachutes.

• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[15] .The note carried instructions ordering the items to be delivered to the plane when it landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport; if the demands were not met, he would blow up the plane.^ Fail to meet the demands, and Cooper would blow up the plane.

• The Seattle Traveler » The Legend & Money of D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.theseattletraveler.com [Source type: News]

^ The plane landed at Sea-Tac, and the hijacker's demands were met.

• The Seattle Times: Books: Answering "what ifs?" of D.B. Cooper mystery 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: General]

^ The plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and authorities met his demands.

• D.B. Cooper ( - 1971) - Find A Grave Memorial 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.findagrave.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[16] .When the flight attendant informed the cockpit about Cooper and the note, the pilot, William Scott, contacted Seattle-Tacoma air traffic control, who contacted Seattle police and the FBI. The FBI contacted Northwest Airlines president Donald Nyrop, who instructed Scott to cooperate with the hijacker.^ Moments after takeoff Cooper handed one of the flight attendants a note.

• What Happened to D.B.Cooper? - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.associatedcontent.com [Source type: General]

^ Cooper bought this Northwest Orient ticket from Portland to Seattle for the hijacking.

• D.B. Cooper, where are you? 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.seattlepi.com [Source type: News]

^ Then he handed one of the flight attendants a note.

• The unsolved crime of the century: the hunt for D B Cooper - Americas, World - The Independent 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: News]

^[15] .Scott instructed Schaffner to go back and sit next to Cooper, and ascertain if the bomb was in fact real.^ Once in the air, the flight attendant finally read the note from the man who called himself "Dan Cooper" -- "Miss, I've got a bomb, come sit next to me -- you're being hijacked."

• DB Cooper hijacking money to be auctioned off | Entertainment & Lifestyle | kgw.com | News for Portland Oregon and SW Washington 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.kgw.com [Source type: News]

^ The Wall Street Journal's Travel Editor, Scott has been on the airline beat since 1995 -- long enough to see it go from bust to boom and back to bust.

• Man Who May Have Faked His Death: D.B. Cooper, He Ain’t - The Middle Seat Terminal - WSJ 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.wsj.com [Source type: News]
• Indiana Businessman Who May Have Faked His Own Death: The Next D.B. Cooper? - The Middle Seat Terminal - WSJ 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.wsj.com [Source type: News]

^ In fact -- Cooper was likely an unskilled skydiver -- who didn't realize the FBI accidentally supplied him with a dummy reserve chute, one of two chutes he jumped with.

• Investigators: FBI unveils new evidence in D.B. Cooper case | Local News | Seattle News, Local News, Breaking News, Weather | KING5.com 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.king5.com [Source type: News]

.Sensing this, Cooper opened his briefcase momentarily, long enough for Schaffner to see red cylinders, a large battery, and wires, convincing her the bomb was real.^ Cooper briefly opened the briefcase and the stewardess later recalled she saw some red cylinders and wires.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ He opened his briefcase to reveal several red cylinders and a nest of wires.

• Local News | D.B. Cooper puzzle: The legend turns 30 | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ He opened the briefcase, which contained bundles of wires and red sticks.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]
• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

^[17] .He instructed her to tell the pilot not to land until the money and parachutes Cooper had requested were ready at Seattle-Tacoma.^ He instructed her to tell the pilot not to land until the money and parachutes were ready at Seattle-Tacoma.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The 727 circled the Seattle airport until the hijacker was satisfied that the money and parachutes were ready.

• CRIME: The Bandit Who Went Out into the Cold - TIME 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.time.com [Source type: General]

^ November 24, 1971 A passenger identifying himself as Dan Cooper skyjacks a Boeing 727-100 en route to Seattle-Tacoma Airport.

• Timeline of D.B. Cooper -- New York Magazine 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC nymag.com [Source type: News]

.She went back to the cockpit to relay Cooper's instructions.^ Once the plane was back in the air, Cooper ordered a stewardess who remained on board to go into the cockpit.

• D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case : Investigation Discovery 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]
• New Leads Sought in D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case: The Criminal Report Daily : Investigation Discovery 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.discovery.com [Source type: General]

^ Cooper went to the back of the plane and jumped into the pitch black night in the midst of a driving rainstorm.

• FBI Reopens Very Cold Case of D.B. Cooper : NPR 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

^ Cooper went to the back of the plane and ordered the flight crew to close the curtain dividing first-class and coach.

• On This Day: D.B. Cooper Hijacks Plane 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.findingdulcinea.com [Source type: News]

^[15]

.Following Cooper's demands, the jet was put into a holding pattern over Puget Sound, while Cooper's demands for $200,000 and four parachutes were met.^ He demanded $200,000 and parachutes.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]
• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

^ Dan Cooper boarded a commercial Portland-to-Seattle fight and demanded $200,000 and four parachutes.

• Possible D.B. Cooper chute investigated 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.seattlepi.com [Source type: News]

^ He demanded four parachutes and $200,000 in $20 bills, the FBI says.

• After 36 years, FBI reopens D.B. Cooper airplane hijacking case - The New York Times 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.nytimes.com [Source type: News]

.In assembling the cash demands, FBI agents followed Cooper's instruction for unmarked bills, but they decided to give bills printed mostly in 1969 (although some were older or newer), that mostly had serial numbers beginning with the letter L, issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.^ The numbers matched the bills given to Cooper.

• DB Cooper hijacking money to be auctioned off | Entertainment & Lifestyle | kgw.com | News for Portland Oregon and SW Washington 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.kgw.com [Source type: News]
• Man who found D. B. Cooper money to auction it off | KATU.com - Portland, Oregon | Weird News 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.katu.com [Source type: News]

^ The FBI confirmed by serial numbers that the bills were from Cooper's ransom.

• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The FBI was soon able to trace the bills to the skyjacking by serial numbers.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^[18] .The agents also ran all of the 10,000 $20 bills quickly through a Recordak device to create a microfilm photograph of each bill and thus record all the serial numbers.^ The serial numbers on all of the $20 bills given to the hijacker were recorded.

• Does a Vancouver bank hold D.B. Cooper's missing loot? 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.canada.com [Source type: News]

^ All the bills were fun through a system to create a microfilm of the bill and the serial number.

• The Seattle Traveler » The Legend & Money of D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.theseattletraveler.com [Source type: News]

^ All of the ten-thousand $20 bills were photographed with a high-speed Recordak machine to create a microfilm later to be used to prepare a list of serial numbers.

• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[16][19] .Authorities initially intended to obtain military-issue parachutes from McChord Air Force Base, but Cooper said he wanted civilian parachutes, which had manually operated ripcords.^ The bodies of Cooper and Williams were recovered, the Air Force said.

• Christopher Michael Cooper, Major, United States Air Force 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.arlingtoncemetery.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Cook, who plans to turn his two decades of research into a book, said Gossett had a military background, including wilderness survival and parachuting experience.

• Does a Vancouver bank hold D.B. Cooper's missing loot? 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.canada.com [Source type: News]

^ The Air Force sent a pair of F-106s from McChord Air Base in pursuit and they were able to stay within five miles of the aircraft but they did not see anyone leave the plane.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

.Seattle police were able to find Cooper's preferred parachutes at a local skydiving school.^ Parachutes were found at a local skydiving schools.

• The Seattle Traveler » The Legend & Money of D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.theseattletraveler.com [Source type: News]

^ Did kids find D.B. Cooper's parachute?

• Did kids find D.B. Cooper's parachute? - Life- msnbc.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.msnbc.msn.com [Source type: News]

^ D.B. Cooper Parachute Found taking you on a guided tour of the web Local: Digital Alchemy About Wiki Contact « Home .

• D.B. Cooper Parachute Found 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.digitalalchemy.tv [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[18] .Meanwhile, Cooper sat in the airplane, drinking a cocktail of bourbon whiskey and lemon-lime soda, which he would offer to pay for.^ Meanwhile, back on the plane, Cooper was drinking bourbon and soda, and according to Flight Attendant reports, but for the fact that he was skyjacking the plane, was otherwise described as a nice, gracious man.

• The Seattle Traveler » The Legend & Money of D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.theseattletraveler.com [Source type: News]

^ He ordered a drink—bourbon and soda—while the flight was waiting to take off.

• Federal Bureau of Investigation - Press Room - Headline Archives 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.fbi.gov [Source type: General]

.Tina Mucklow, a flight attendant who spent the most time with the hijacker, remarked Cooper "seemed rather nice," and thoughtful enough to request the crew be brought meals after the jet landed in Seattle.^ In 1971, D.B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland and asked for a $200,000 ransom in exchange for the release of hostages.

• D.B. Cooper Parachute Found 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.digitalalchemy.tv [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Once in the air, the flight attendant finally read the note from the man who called himself "Dan Cooper" -- "Miss, I've got a bomb, come sit next to me -- you're being hijacked."

• DB Cooper hijacking money to be auctioned off | Entertainment & Lifestyle | kgw.com | News for Portland Oregon and SW Washington 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.kgw.com [Source type: News]

^ Cooper soon asked the only remaining stewardess (Tina Mucklow Larson) how to lower the rear stairs in the back of the 727.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^[18] .However, FBI investigators for the Cooper case claim the hijacker was "obscene," and used "filthy language."^ FBI using DNA from tie in D.B. Cooper case .

• Investigators: FBI unveils new evidence in D.B. Cooper case | Local News | Seattle News, Local News, Breaking News, Weather | KING5.com 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.king5.com [Source type: News]

^ Investigators: FBI unveils new evidence in D.B. Cooper case .

• Investigators: FBI unveils new evidence in D.B. Cooper case | Local News | Seattle News, Local News, Breaking News, Weather | KING5.com 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.king5.com [Source type: News]

^ Now, however, the FBI may have a new clue in the case of D.B. Cooper.

• ksl.com - Could parachute found by farmer be D.B. Cooper's? 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.ksl.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[18] .At 17:24, airport traffic control radioed Scott and told him that Cooper's demands had been met.^ November 24, 1971 A passenger identifying himself as Dan Cooper skyjacks a Boeing 727-100 en route to Seattle-Tacoma Airport.

• Timeline of D.B. Cooper -- New York Magazine 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC nymag.com [Source type: News]

^ Later that day, upon hearing confirmation from the pilot that his demands had been met, Cooper instructed him to land at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where he exchanged the passengers for the ransom.

• D.B. Cooper Hijacking: Top 10 FBI Cases: Investigation Discovery 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]
• New Leads Sought in D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case: The Criminal Report Daily : Investigation Discovery 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.discovery.com [Source type: General]

^ She immediately relayed the demands to Captain William W. Scott, who in turn radioed Seattle ground control.

• CRIME: The Bandit Who Went Out into the Cold - TIME 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.time.com [Source type: General]

.Cooper then gave Captain Scott permission to land at the flight's intended destination, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) near Seattle, Washington.^ November 24, 1971 A passenger identifying himself as Dan Cooper skyjacks a Boeing 727-100 en route to Seattle-Tacoma Airport.

• Timeline of D.B. Cooper -- New York Magazine 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC nymag.com [Source type: News]

^ Later that day, upon hearing confirmation from the pilot that his demands had been met, Cooper instructed him to land at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where he exchanged the passengers for the ransom.

• D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case : Investigation Discovery 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]
• D.B. Cooper Hijacking: Top 10 FBI Cases: Investigation Discovery 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]

^ After passing a note to a flight attendant that said, "Miss, I have a bomb," Cooper forced the plane to land at Seattle Tacoma Airport.

• D. B. Cooper -- Found At Last? - CBS Evening News - CBS News 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.cbsnews.com [Source type: News]

.The plane landed at the airport at 17:39.^[20] Cooper then instructed Scott to taxi the plane to a remote section of the tarmac and also dim the lights in the cabin to deter police snipers.^ Once the money and parachutes were taken to Sea-Tac, the plane landed and taxied to a remote section of the airport.

• The Seattle Traveler » The Legend & Money of D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.theseattletraveler.com [Source type: News]

^ Later that day, upon hearing confirmation from the pilot that his demands had been met, Cooper instructed him to land at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where he exchanged the passengers for the ransom.

• D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case : Investigation Discovery 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]
• D.B. Cooper Hijacking: Top 10 FBI Cases: Investigation Discovery 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]

^ After passing a note to a flight attendant that said, "Miss, I have a bomb," Cooper forced the plane to land at Seattle Tacoma Airport.

• D. B. Cooper -- Found At Last? - CBS Evening News - CBS News 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.cbsnews.com [Source type: News]

.He instructed air traffic control to send one person to deliver the $200,000 and four parachutes, unaccompanied.^ He demanded $200,000 and parachutes.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]
• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

^ Equipped with two parachutes and clasping a bag of $200,000 in ransom money, he hurtled through the rain clouds to the rugged terrain of Washington State below.

• The unsolved crime of the century: the hunt for D B Cooper - Americas, World - The Independent 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes and asked to be flown to Mexico.

• Nation & World | Chute Find Rekindles D.B. Cooper Legend | Seattle Times Newspaper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]
• Parachute Find Stirs New Buzz of Legend of D.B. Cooper - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.foxnews.com [Source type: News]
• Bills linked to 'D.B. Cooper' for sale - Life- msnbc.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.msnbc.msn.com [Source type: News]
• Chute find rekindles D.B. Cooper legend - USATODAY.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.usatoday.com [Source type: News]
• D.B. Cooper bills go to auction | Oakland Tribune Newspaper | Find Articles at BNET 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC findarticles.com [Source type: News]

^[20] .The person chosen, a Northwest Orient employee, drove to the plane and delivered the cash and parachutes to flight attendant Mucklow, via the aft stairs.^ Cooper had jumped from the plane's aft stairs.

• D.B. Cooper - Mysteries of History - U.S. News Online 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.usnews.com [Source type: News]

^ After passing a note to a flight attendant that said, "Miss, I have a bomb," Cooper forced the plane to land at Seattle Tacoma Airport.

• D. B. Cooper -- Found At Last? - CBS Evening News - CBS News 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.cbsnews.com [Source type: News]

^ Weber recalled that her husband had once had a nightmare where he talked in his sleep about jumping from a plane and said something about "Leaving my fingerprints on the aft stairs."

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• View Letterbox - The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.letterboxing.org [Source type: General]

.A few minutes after his demands were met, Cooper released all 36 passengers and attendant Schaffner via the aft stairs.^ Cooper had jumped from the plane's aft stairs.

• D.B. Cooper - Mysteries of History - U.S. News Online 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.usnews.com [Source type: News]

^ Later that day, upon hearing confirmation from the pilot that his demands had been met, Cooper instructed him to land at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where he exchanged the passengers for the ransom.

• D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case : Investigation Discovery 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]

^ The Boeing 727 landed in Seattle, where the passengers were released and authorities complied with Cooper's demands.

• He's Not About to Let D.B. Cooper Get Away - Los Angeles Times 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC articles.latimes.com [Source type: News]

.Pilot Scott, flight attendant Mucklow, First Officer Bob Rataczak and flight engineer H.E. Anderson were not permitted to leave the aircraft.^ When the flight attendant informed the cockpit about Cooper and the note, the pilot, William Scott, contacted Seattle-Tacoma air traffic control and was instructed to cooperate with the hijacker.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ William "Scotty" Scott, one of the two pilots aboard flight 305 died of prostate cancer on March 11, 2001.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act, Continued 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: General]

^ Also abroad was First Officer Robert "Bob" Rataczak; Flight Engineer Harold E. Anderson, and three flight attendants, Alice Hancock, Tina Mucklow, 22, and Florence Schaffner, 23.

• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[20]

.The FBI was puzzled regarding Cooper's plans, and his request of four parachutes.^ Threatening to detonate an explosive device, Cooper demanded $200,000 in $20 bills and four parachutes.

• HowStuffWorks "Is D.B. Cooper still alive?" 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC history.howstuffworks.com [Source type: General]

^ Law enforcement officials were concerned that the request for four parachutes might mean either that he had accomplices or that he intended to take hostages with him.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ A man who had purchased his ticket under the name of "Dan Cooper" demanded two hundred thousand dollars in cash and four parachutes.

• 2000 Darwin Award: Home Grown Parachute 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.darwinawards.com [Source type: General]

.The agents wondered if Cooper had an accomplice on board, or if the parachutes were intended for the four crew members who were still on the plane.^ Once Cooper got $200,000 and four parachutes, the plane was emptied except for him and four crew members.

• D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC home.earthlink.net [Source type: Original source]

^ Authorities gave Cooper four parachutes after he hijacked the plane.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]
• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

^ Dan Cooper boarded the plane of only 36 passengers and 6 crew.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[18] .Up to this point in history, nobody had ever attempted to jump with a parachute from a hijacked commercial aircraft.^ April 7, 1972 Richard Floyd McCoy hijacks a Boeing 727, demands $500,000 and four parachutes, and jumps out of a plane over Provo, Utah.

• Timeline of D.B. Cooper -- New York Magazine 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC nymag.com [Source type: News]

^ In 1972 alone three hijackers proved that it was possible to survive the jump from a 727 by parachuting out the back.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The FBI has had several promising leads , but all have turned up dry, and the Cooper case remains the only unsolved airplane hijacking in U.S. history.

• On This Day: D.B. Cooper Hijacks Plane 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.findingdulcinea.com [Source type: News]

.While the plane was being refueled, an FAA official, who wanted to explain to the hijacker the legal consequences of air piracy, walked to the door of the plane and asked Cooper's permission to come aboard the plane.^ D.B. Cooper (or Dan Cooper ) is the man who hijacked a Boeing 727, got the demanded US$200,000 ransom money (in unmarked $20 bills) , and parachuted from the plane and vanished without a trace.

• D.B. Cooper – A Thief.. A Legend… « 3 Critical 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC 3critical.wordpress.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Cooper, who claimed to have a bomb (he didn't), exchanged the passengers for $200,000 when the plane arrived in Seattle.

• Main News: The Mystery of D.B. Cooper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.cenewsblog.com [Source type: General]

^ Thanksgiving eve, the man who bought a ticket as Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle.

• Local News | FBI makes new plea in D.B. Cooper case | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

Cooper promptly denied the official's request.^[21] .A vapor lock in the fuel tanker truck's engines slowed down the refueling process.^ When we land, I want a fuel truck ready to refuel.

• The unsolved crime of the century: the hunt for D B Cooper - Americas, World - The Independent 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: News]
• John P. O'Grady 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC weberstudies.weber.edu [Source type: Original source]

^ Toyota, the auto maker with the fallen green halo is slowing down production of its Toyota Tundra monster truck plant here in San Antonio.

• Automaker Loans Deferred to December and Will Only be Provided Based on Automakers Plans for Viability, GM Agrees | GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC gm-volt.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Cooper became suspicious when the refueling had still not been completed after 15 minutes.^ It still does not purport to be a complete record of all descendants of the first James Cooper.

• The Cooper Genealogy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC external.oneonta.edu [Source type: Academic]

.He made threats to blow up the plane, upon which the fuel crew promptly tried to speed up the job until completion.^ Various attempts were made to keep the plane on the ground, but it was eventually re-fueled and took off again – destination, Mexico City, with a stop in Reno, Nevada, to re-fuel.

• The Seattle Traveler » The Legend & Money of D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.theseattletraveler.com [Source type: News]

^ Cooper demanded the plane be flown to Mexico City at a low altitude and low speed , but when the pilots said there wasn’t enough fuel, Cooper settled for Reno, Nev.

• On This Day: D.B. Cooper Hijacks Plane 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.findingdulcinea.com [Source type: News]

^ It said he had a bomb and threatened to blow up the Boeing 727 unless he received $200,000 cash and four parachutes when the plane landed.

• D.B. Cooper - Mysteries of History - U.S. News Online 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.usnews.com [Source type: News]

^[20]

.After refueling, careful examination of the ransom and parachutes, and negotiations regarding the flight pattern and the position of the aft stairs upon take-off, Cooper ordered the flight crew to take the hijacked jet back into the air at around 19:40 (7:40 pm).^ Cooper had jumped from the plane's aft stairs.

• D.B. Cooper - Mysteries of History - U.S. News Online 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.usnews.com [Source type: News]

^ Once in the air, the flight attendant finally read the note from the man who called himself "Dan Cooper" -- "Miss, I've got a bomb, come sit next to me -- you're being hijacked."

• DB Cooper hijacking money to be auctioned off | Entertainment & Lifestyle | kgw.com | News for Portland Oregon and SW Washington 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.kgw.com [Source type: News]

^ Now 36, Ingram hopes to auction the weathered bundle of $20 bills as the FBI launches a new effort to find the unknown hijacker who parachuted into the night after taking over the 1971 Northwest Orient Airlines flight.

• DB Cooper hijacking money to be auctioned off | Entertainment & Lifestyle | kgw.com | News for Portland Oregon and SW Washington 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.kgw.com [Source type: News]

.The crew was ordered to fly to Mexico City, at a relatively low speed of 170 knots (310 km/h; 200 mph), an altitude at or under 10,000 feet (3,000 m) (normal cruising altitude is between 25,000 and 37,000 feet (7,600 and 11,000 m)), with the landing gear down and 15 degrees of flap.^ It directed the crew to fly the plane to Mexico City.

• John P. O'Grady 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC weberstudies.weber.edu [Source type: Original source]

^ The hijacker told the pilot to fly at 200 mph at 10,000 feet and ordered the crew to stay in the cockpit.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]
• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

^ At 19:45 he had the flight crew take the plane back into the air, ordering them to fly towards Mexico at low speed and altitude with the landing gear down and 15 degrees of flap.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[22] .However, First Officer Rataczak told him that the jet could only fly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) under the altitude and airspeed conditions Cooper ordered.^ The agent learned for the first time that the pilot, who had been manually flying the plane that night because of Cooper's speed and altitude demands, was traveling farther east than authorities had realized.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ The hijacker told the pilot to fly at 200 mph at 10,000 feet and ordered the crew to stay in the cockpit.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]
• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

^ While there was no doubt Cooper had jumped, his exact landing zone remained a mystery and could only be based on the pilots account of when the jet door had been opened.

• D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case : Investigation Discovery 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]

.Cooper and the crew discussed other possible locations, before deciding on flying to Reno, Nevada, where they would again refuel.^ To have utilized an accomplice, Cooper would’ve needed to coordinate closely with the flight crew so he could jump at just the right moment and hit the right drop zone.

• FBI — D.B. Cooper - Press Room - Headline Archives 12-31-07 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.fbi.gov [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• FBI releases new info in legendary D.B. Cooper case | Local News | kgw.com | News for Portland Oregon and SW Washington 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.kgw.com [Source type: News]

^ They did say it's possible that he lost the money when he jumped and it fell well before he came down and that might explain it.

• D.B. Cooper - Harley Davidson Forums 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.westcoastbikers.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The forum was hugh but I came away believing he was Dan Cooper - absolutely no other explanation for the money they found in the Columbia in 1980.

• Man Who May Have Faked His Death: D.B. Cooper, He Ain’t - The Middle Seat Terminal - WSJ 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.wsj.com [Source type: News]

^[20] They also agreed to fly on Victor 23 as depicted on the Jeppesen air navigational charts, a low-altitude Federal airway that passed west of the Cascade Range. .Cooper then ordered Scott to leave the cabin unpressurized.^ Cooper ordered that the cabin remain depressurized.

• The Seattle Traveler » The Legend & Money of D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.theseattletraveler.com [Source type: News]

^ Once the plane was back in the air, Cooper asked how to lower the tail stairs, and then ordered the flight attendant out of the cabin.

• 2000 Darwin Award: Home Grown Parachute 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.darwinawards.com [Source type: General]

.An unpressurized cabin at 10,000 feet would curtail the risk of a sudden rush of air exiting the plane (and ease the opening of the pressure door) if he were to attempt to exit the aircraft for a subsequent parachute landing.^ If the doors opened outwards in a pressurized cabin, there would be a HUGE risk of the door latches failing and the door blowing open from the cabin pressure.

• Daily Rotten Forum Experience 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC forums.dailyrotten.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Soon after 8:00 p.m., while the plane was over southwestern Washington, a light in the cockpit indicated a drop in air pressure .

• On This Day: D.B. Cooper Hijacks Plane 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.findingdulcinea.com [Source type: News]

^ FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who was to lead the subsequent investigation for nearly a decade, attempted to follow in a helicopter but was unable to catch up to the plane.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^[20]

.Immediately upon takeoff, Cooper asked Mucklow, who had previously been sitting with him, to go back to the cockpit and stay there.^ Cooper soon asked the only remaining stewardess (Tina Mucklow Larson) how to lower the rear stairs in the back of the 727.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Duvall and Gleason venture upon separate pursuits while Williams drops by the homestead to gather up his suffering wife (Kathryn Harrold) to go escaping with him.

• The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Movie The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www2.variety.com [Source type: General]

^ In fact -- Cooper was likely an unskilled skydiver -- who didn't realize the FBI accidentally supplied him with a dummy reserve chute, one of two chutes he jumped with.

• Investigators: FBI unveils new evidence in D.B. Cooper case | Local News | Seattle News, Local News, Breaking News, Weather | KING5.com 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.king5.com [Source type: News]

^[23] .Before she went behind the curtain that separates the coach and first-class seats, she watched him tie something to his waist with what she thought was rope.^ She glanced back on her way out of the 126-seat passenger section and thought she saw him using cord to tie something, probably the money bag, around his waist.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ She glanced back on her way out of the narrow 126-seat passenger section and thought she saw him using cord to tie something, probably the money bag, around his waist.

• D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC home.earthlink.net [Source type: Original source]

^ He had cut a piece of cord off one of the parachutes left behind on the plane and may have used it to strap the money to his waist before he jumped.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]
• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

.Moments later in the cockpit, the crew noticed a light flash indicating that Cooper attempted to operate the door.^ Soon after 8:00 p.m., while the plane was over southwestern Washington, a light in the cockpit indicated a drop in air pressure .

• On This Day: D.B. Cooper Hijacks Plane 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.findingdulcinea.com [Source type: News]

^ To have utilized an accomplice, Cooper would’ve needed to coordinate closely with the flight crew so he could jump at just the right moment and hit the right drop zone.

• FBI — D.B. Cooper - Press Room - Headline Archives 12-31-07 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.fbi.gov [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ A little after 8 p.m., perhaps somewhere over Lake Merwin on the dammed Lewis River in southwestern Washington, a light flashed on the instrument panel in the cockpit of Northwest Flight 305, indicating that the rear exit door had indeed been opened.

• John P. O'Grady 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC weberstudies.weber.edu [Source type: Original source]

.Over the intercom, Scott asked Cooper if there was anything they could do for him, but the hijacker replied curtly, "No!"^ Before this, no hijacker had ever asked for a parachute.

• John P. O'Grady 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC weberstudies.weber.edu [Source type: Original source]

^ According to a commenter named "Scott" , Cooper's move north is good in that "they really don't have much competition up here.

• Cooper's Bar-B-Que now open in Fort Worth | www.pegasusnews.com | Dallas/Fort Worth 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.pegasusnews.com [Source type: General]

^ While there was no doubt Cooper had jumped, his exact landing zone remained a mystery and could only be based on the pilots account of when the jet door had been opened.

• D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case : Investigation Discovery 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC investigation.discovery.com [Source type: General]
• New Leads Sought in D.B. Cooper Skyjacker Case: The Criminal Report Daily : Investigation Discovery 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.discovery.com [Source type: General]

^[23]

The crew started to notice a change of air pressure in the cabin (an "ear popping experience"). .Cooper had lowered the aft stairs and jumped out of the plane never to be seen again.^ Cooper had jumped from the plane's aft stairs.

• D.B. Cooper - Mysteries of History - U.S. News Online 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.usnews.com [Source type: News]

^ Cooper soon asked the only remaining stewardess (Tina Mucklow Larson) how to lower the rear stairs in the back of the 727.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ He resembled Cooper, had a criminal past, said he had a bad knee after jumping out of a plane, exclaimed in his sleep that he had left his fingerprints on the aft stairs, and took a vacation to the Columbia River near where the money was discovered.

• On This Day: D.B. Cooper Hijacks Plane 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.findingdulcinea.com [Source type: News]

^[24] That was the last time he was known to be alive. .The FBI believed his descent was at 20:13 (8:13 pm) over the southwestern portion of the state of Washington, because the aft stairway "bumped" at this time, most likely because of the weight of Cooper being released from the aft stairs.^ The FBI believed his descent was at 20:11 over southwest Washington , because the rear stairway "bumped" at that time.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Cooper had jumped from the plane's aft stairs.

• D.B. Cooper - Mysteries of History - U.S. News Online 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.usnews.com [Source type: News]

^ FBI sketch of hijacker known as Dan “D.B.” Cooper who in 1971 commandeered a Northwest Airlines jet, parachuted out over the forests of Washington State with some $200,000 he obtained through a bomb threat.

• Indiana Businessman Who May Have Faked His Own Death: The Next D.B. Cooper? - The Middle Seat Terminal - WSJ 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.wsj.com [Source type: News]

.At the time Cooper jumped, the plane was flying through a heavy rainstorm, with no light source coming from the ground because of cloud coverage.^ But Cooper simply said, "Fly to Mexico," and he had no idea where he was when he jumped.

• FBI releases new info in legendary D.B. Cooper case | Local News | kgw.com | News for Portland Oregon and SW Washington 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.kgw.com [Source type: News]

^ There was also no visibility of the ground due to cloud cover at 5,000 feet.

• FBI releases new info in legendary D.B. Cooper case | Local News | kgw.com | News for Portland Oregon and SW Washington 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.kgw.com [Source type: News]

^ The agent learned for the first time that the pilot, who had been manually flying the plane that night because of Cooper's speed and altitude demands, was traveling farther east than authorities had realized.

• D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC home.earthlink.net [Source type: Original source]
• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^[7] .Because of the poor visibility, his descent went unnoticed by the United States Air Force F-106 jet fighters tracking the airliner.^ Due to poor visibility, his descent went unnoticed by the United States Air Force F-106 jet fighter s tracking the airliner.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[25] .He initially was believed to have landed southeast of the unincorporated area of Ariel, Washington, near Lake Merwin, 30 miles (48 km) north of Portland, Oregon (45°57′N 122°39′W / 45.95°N 122.65°W / 45.95; -122.65Coordinates: 45°57′N 122°39′W / 45.95°N 122.65°W / 45.95; -122.65).^ He got on board in Portland, Oregon, north bound for the Seattle-Tacoma (known locally as SEA-TAC) Airport in Seattle, Washington.

• Aero.com - "Parachuting" 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.aero.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ But efforts were concentrated in 150 square miles of thickly resistant forest near the Washington towns of Longview and Ariel, just north of Portland.

• John P. O'Grady 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC weberstudies.weber.edu [Source type: Original source]

^ Himmelsbach has written a book on the case (NORJAK: The Investigation of D.B. Cooper) and believes the skyjacker likely died near where he landed.

• D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC home.earthlink.net [Source type: Original source]
• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^[26] .Later theories based on a variety of sources—including testimony on weather conditions from Continental Airlines pilot Tom Bohan, who had been flying 4,000 feet (1,200 m) above and 4 minutes behind Flight 305—placed Cooper's landing zone as much as 20 miles (32 km) farther east, but its precise location remains unknown.^ The pilots and an attendant remained on the plane with Cooper, who demanded they fly to Mexico.

• Does a Vancouver bank hold D.B. Cooper's missing loot? 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.canada.com [Source type: News]

^ "Dan Burkett Cooper") was an alias of an aircraft hijacker who, on November 24, 1971, after receiving a ransom payout of US$200,000, jumped from a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest of the United States somewhere over the Cascade Mountains in Washington.

• Warren Kinsella - D. B. COOPER, IS THAT YOUR PARACHUTE? 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.warrenkinsella.com [Source type: General]

^ Shortly after takeoff, Cooper parachuted with the money from the rear stairs at 10,000 feet, as the Boeing 727 was going 196 mph, about 20 miles north of Portland, according to FBI records.

• D.B Cooper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC carlweetabix.co.uk [Source type: News]

^[27]

.Nearly 2½ hours after take-off from Seattle-Tacoma, at approximately 22:15,^[23] with the aft stairs dragging on the runway, the Boeing 727 landed safely in Reno.^ The aft door remained open dragging the runway during the landing.

• Db Cooper (live, money, tree) - Oregon (OR) - City-Data Forum 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.city-data.com [Source type: General]

^ Twenty minutes or so after takeoff, the man lowered the stairs at the back of the Boeing 727 and jumped.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

^ He instructed her to tell the pilot not to land until the money and parachutes were ready at Seattle-Tacoma.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.The airport and runway were surrounded by FBI agents and local police.^ State police, FBI agents and local authorities searched a heavily wooded area 15 miles west of here for Richard F. McCoy, 31 and three other convicts.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Authorities used two police helicopters, about 30 state troopers, FBI agents, and other Jaw officers in the search.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The agency sent an agent in Portland to the police headquarters there to investigate the rap sheet of a local man, D.B. Cooper.

• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.After communicating with Captain Scott, it was determined Cooper was gone, and FBI agents boarded the plane to search for any evidence left behind.^ The tie was the only piece of evidence left behind by Cooper on the plane.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

^ FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who was to lead the subsequent investigation for nearly a decade, attempted to follow in a helicopter but was unable to catch up to the plane.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The Monday news release included photos from the FBI files of Cooper's skinny black clip-on necktie, a parachute he left behind on the plane and a few of the decaying $20 bills found by 8-year-old Brian Ingram near Frenchman's Bar in Vancouver, Wash.

• Local News | FBI makes new plea in D.B. Cooper case | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

.They recovered a number of fingerprints (which may or may not have belonged to Cooper), a tie and a mother of pearl tie clip, and two of the four parachutes.^ A man who had purchased his ticket under the name of "Dan Cooper" demanded two hundred thousand dollars in cash and four parachutes.

• 2000 Darwin Award: Home Grown Parachute 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.darwinawards.com [Source type: General]

^ He allowed the 36 passengers aboard to get off at Sea-Tac Airport in exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes, but the pilots and an attendant remained on the plane with Cooper, who demanded they fly to Mexico.

• D.B Cooper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC carlweetabix.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Carr showed one of four parachutes that Cooper demanded, along with $200,000, after hijacking the Northwest Orient passenger jet.

• Investigators: FBI unveils new evidence in D.B. Cooper case | Local News | Seattle News, Local News, Breaking News, Weather | KING5.com 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.king5.com [Source type: News]

^[28] .Cooper was nowhere to be found, nor was his briefcase, the money, the moneybag, or the two remaining parachutes.^ Not a trace of Dan Cooper or the money was found.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Plane hijacker D.B. Cooper's parachute found .

• Plane hijacker D.B. Cooper's parachute found - Boing Boing 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ So was the money and two parachutes.

• Aero.com - "Parachuting" 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.aero.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.The individuals with whom Cooper had interacted on board the plane and while he was on the ground were interrogated to compile a composite sketch; those interviewed all gave nearly identical descriptions of him, leading the FBI to create the sketch that has been used on wanted posters ever since, where Dan Cooper is described as being of Latin appearance.^ Dan Cooper boarded the plane of only 36 passengers and 6 crew.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who was to lead the subsequent investigation for nearly a decade, attempted to follow in a helicopter but was unable to catch up to the plane.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ All of the ten-thousand $20 bills were photographed with a high-speed Recordak machine to create a microfilm later to be used to prepare a list of serial numbers.

• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[29] .As of 2009, the FBI maintains that the sketch is an accurate likeness of Cooper because so many individuals, interviewed simultaneously in separate locations, gave nearly identical descriptions.^ Photo: This 1971 artist's sketch was drawn of D.B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, based on the descriptions of passengers and crew on the Northwest Orient Airlines flight he hijacked.

• Main News: The Mystery of D.B. Cooper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.cenewsblog.com [Source type: General]

^ He was in the Army, had done time in a Northwest prison and, like Christiansen, looked like the FBI sketch.

• D.B Cooper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC carlweetabix.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ The FBI has investigated a litany of stories like those from Rizzo and Weber but rejected them because there is simply no proof, Hope said.

• Local News | D.B. Cooper puzzle: The legend turns 30 | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^[7]

.Despite aerial and ground searches of the projected 28-square-mile (73 km²) landing zone in late 1971 and spring 1972, no trace of Cooper or his parachute was found.^ Not a trace of Dan Cooper or the money was found.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Despite an eighteen-day search of the projected landing zone, no trace of the man or his parachute was ever found, and it remains unknown whether he survived the escape.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Plane hijacker D.B. Cooper's parachute found .

• Plane hijacker D.B. Cooper's parachute found - Boing Boing 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.An exact landing point was difficult to determine, as the plane's 300 feet (91 m)-per-second speed in winds varying by location and altitude would make even small differences in timing move the projected landing point considerably.^ Knowing that he would be jumping out of the back of the plane, he also demanded that the pilot, which was actually co-pilot William Rataczak, fly with landing gear down, flaps set to 15-degrees, to not exceed 170 miles per hour and not to fly above 10,000 feet.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ That would slow the plane down, below 200 mph, and make jumping easier.

• D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC home.earthlink.net [Source type: Original source]
• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ The temperature was 7 below zero, not counting a wind chill factor estimated at minus 70 because of the plane's speed of 200 mph.

• Fake Newspapers, Gag Birthday Gifts; TrixiePixGraphics.Com: Hijacker DB Cooper Caught! 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.trixiepixgraphics.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.This led the FBI to determine that Cooper could not have known exactly where he would land, and therefore must not have had an accomplice waiting to assist him upon landing.^ In after years, a Portland librarian was known to confess: "I've thought about ways to get a lot of money like he did, but I would never really do it, so I'm glad for him."

• John P. O'Grady 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC weberstudies.weber.edu [Source type: Original source]

^ In fact -- Cooper was likely an unskilled skydiver -- who didn't realize the FBI accidentally supplied him with a dummy reserve chute, one of two chutes he jumped with.

• Investigators: FBI unveils new evidence in D.B. Cooper case | Local News | Seattle News, Local News, Breaking News, Weather | KING5.com 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.king5.com [Source type: News]

^ Police, including the FBI, never found him dead or alive, nor did they ever determine exactly who he was, though they don’t think he survived the stunt.

• Indiana Businessman Who May Have Faked His Own Death: The Next D.B. Cooper? - The Middle Seat Terminal - WSJ 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.wsj.com [Source type: News]

^[7] .Initial search efforts combined small groups of FBI agents with local Clark and Cowlitz County sheriff's deputies, who probed on foot and by helicopter.^ FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who was to lead the subsequent investigation for nearly a decade, attempted to follow in a helicopter but was unable to catch up to the plane.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The search for Cooper started with a Lewis County sheriff deputy patrolling a 25 mile section of the Randle-Trout Lake road, and expanded into the northern section of Clark County, concentrated between Woodland and north of the Oregon border in Southwest Washington.

• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Authorities used two police helicopters, about 30 state troopers, FBI agents, and other Jaw officers in the search.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

.Others ran patrol boats along Lake Merwin and Yale Lake.^ Originally it was thought to be somewhere south of Ariel, Wash., near Lake Merwin, but Carr said the discovery of the money along the Columbia River ruled that out.

• Amateur detectives fish for D.B. Cooper clues OregonLive.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.oregonlive.com [Source type: News]

^[30] .Because months passed with no significant leads coming from anywhere else, the arrival of the spring thaw provided incentive for a thorough ground search, conducted by the FBI and no fewer than 200 U.S. Army troops from nearby Fort Lewis.^ Over the years, the FBI has run down thousands of leads and conducted thousands of interviews, including a handful involving people of special interest.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]
• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

^ Though the FBI conducted major searches in 1971 and 1980, collected 1,200 files and checked out countless leads, no hard evidence ever turned up.

• Local News | D.B. Cooper puzzle: The legend turns 30 | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ It would have been no different than tailing a car on the ground.

• D. B. Cooper Eludes the F.B.I. Again - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC thelede.blogs.nytimes.com [Source type: News]

.Teams of agents and soldiers searched the area virtually yard by yard for eighteen straight days in March and for another eighteen straight days in April 1972. After a combined six weeks of searching the projected drop zone, one of the most intense manhunts in the history of the northwestern U.S. revealed no evidence related to the hijacking.^ Over the course of eighteen days after D.B. Cooper disappeared from the airplane a force of 200 soldiers from Fort Lewis Washington tramped across a ten-square-mile area in an intensive search of the rugged forested area over which it was calculated the skyjacker had bailed out of the 727.

• Aero.com - "Parachuting" 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.aero.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The most notable attempt took place on April 7th, 1972, four months after D. B. Cooper's hijacking, when a passenger, registered as "James Johnson" boarded United Airlines flight 855 during a stopover in Denver, Colorado.

• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ McCoy was convicted of hijacking a United Airlines jetliner April 7, 1972, obtaining a $500,000 ransom and then parachuting at night near Provo, Utah.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^[31] .As a result, it remains widely disputed whether Cooper actually landed outside the initial estimated drop zone, as well as whether he survived the jump and subsequently escaped on foot.^ Despite an eighteen-day search of the projected landing zone, no trace of the man or his parachute was ever found, and it remains unknown whether he survived the escape.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Agents now believe Cooper was not an experienced skydiver because he made the jump in street clothes on a dark, rainy night; and he is believed to have acted alone because he did not coordinate with the flight crew to fly over a particular drop zone.

• FBI Reopens Very Cold Case of D.B. Cooper : NPR 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

^ Not long after we wondered aloud Tuesday afternoon about whether he could pull off a disappearing act to rival that of D.B. Cooper, he, well, didn’t.

• Man Who May Have Faked His Death: D.B. Cooper, He Ain’t - The Middle Seat Terminal - WSJ 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.wsj.com [Source type: News]

.Shortly after the hijacking, the FBI questioned and then released a Portland man by the name of D. B. Cooper, who was never considered a significant suspect.^ I am the man who stole his name.

• D.B.Cooper on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.myspace.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ A man who’s hearing has never been that great.

• Automaker Loans Deferred to December and Will Only be Provided Based on Automakers Plans for Viability, GM Agrees | GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC gm-volt.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The basic questions have never been answered: Who was he?

• D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC home.earthlink.net [Source type: Original source]
• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

.Because of a miscommunication with the media, however, the initials "D. B." became firmly associated with the hijacker and this is how he is now known.^ Due to a miscommunication with the media, however, the initials "D. B." became firmly associated with the hijacker and this is how he is now known.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[24]

.Meanwhile, the FBI also stepped up efforts to track the 10,000 ransomed $20 bills by notifying banks, savings and loan companies, and other businesses of the notes’ serial numbers.^ The FBI confirmed by serial numbers that the bills were from Cooper's ransom.

• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The FBI was soon able to trace the bills to the skyjacking by serial numbers.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ But in the 36 years since his jump, the FBI has gained little more hard evidence — save about 20,000 documents, mostly from dead-end leads.

• D.B Cooper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC carlweetabix.co.uk [Source type: News]

.Law enforcement agencies around the globe, including Scotland Yard, also received information on Cooper and the serial numbers.^ The U.S.S. COOPER's first salvo was about 200 yards short, and the second hit between number one and two gun mounts.

• Cooper's Action Report 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.dd-692.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ An unknown law enforcement person leaked to the media that a man named Daniel B. Cooper of Portland was being sought in connection with the crime.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ And as a consequence, there were a number of people, like Jim Cooper of Tennessee and Bill Bradley and Pat Moynihan, who were not included in the negotiations.

• Jim Cooper : Political Animals 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC politics.nashvillecityblogs.com [Source type: News]

.In the months following the hijacking, Northwest Airlines offered a reward of 15 percent of the recovered money up to a maximum of $25,000, but the airline eventually canceled the offer as no new substantial evidence seemed to arise.^ No conclusive evidence has ever surfaced regarding Cooper's whereabouts, and several theories offer competing explanations of what happened after his famed jump.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ He came into view when just months later he staged a similar hijacking over Utah, leaping out and wafting to the ground below under a parachute with $500,000 in ransom money.

• The unsolved crime of the century: the hunt for D B Cooper - Americas, World - The Independent 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ FBI sketch of hijacker known as Dan “D.B.” Cooper who in 1971 commandeered a Northwest Airlines jet, parachuted out over the forests of Washington State with some $200,000 he obtained through a bomb threat.

• Indiana Businessman Who May Have Faked His Own Death: The Next D.B. Cooper? - The Middle Seat Terminal - WSJ 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.wsj.com [Source type: News]

^[32] .In November 1973, The Oregon Journal, based in Portland, began publishing the first public listings of the serial numbers with permission from the FBI and offered $1,000 to the first person who could claim to have found a single one of the $20 bills.^ The FBI confirmed by serial numbers that the bills were from Cooper's ransom.

• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The FBI was soon able to trace the bills to the skyjacking by serial numbers.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Ingram said he wants to keep at least one of the bills for his family, offer one to a museum and auction off the rest.

• FBI Reopens Very Cold Case of D.B. Cooper : NPR 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

^[32] .Later, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer offered a $5,000 reward for one of the bills.^ Ingram said he wants to keep at least one of the bills for his family, offer one to a museum and auction off the rest.

• FBI Reopens Very Cold Case of D.B. Cooper : NPR 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

^ The best clue turned up nine years later: $6,000 in bills found by a boy along the banks of the Columbia River.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Ingram was given half of the money as a reward and recently sold 15 of the tattered bills through an auction house for nearly $40,000.

• Amateur detectives fish for D.B. Cooper clues OregonLive.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.oregonlive.com [Source type: News]

^[33] Despite reported interest from around the country and several alleged near-matches, the newspapers never received a claim of an exact serial number match. .In the decade before the Cooper hijacking, local law enforcement and the FBI had solved at least two major crimes—a bank robbery and an extortion—in the Pacific Northwest by tracing money serial numbers.^ Not a trace of Dan Cooper or the money was found.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Northwest Airlines decided to cooperate with the hijacker, and contacted the FBI for assistance.

• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The FBI confirmed by serial numbers that the bills were from Cooper's ransom.

• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.But both cases, which took only weeks for authorities to solve, involved instances of a perpetrator spending the traceable money only days after the crime and in the same general region of the crime,^[34] circumstances that in all likelihood did not apply in the Cooper case.^ Not a trace of Dan Cooper or the money was found.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The aircraft was a Boeing 727 equipped with air stairs, the same type used in the Cooper skyjacking, which Johnson used to escape after giving the crew similar instructions (Johnson did ask for more money - $500,000) as Cooper had.

• D B Cooper's Jump 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.check-six.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The statue of limitations for "air piracy" in the D.B. Cooper case would have expired in 1976 - five years after the crime was committed (in 1971).

• Want to buy some of D.B. Cooper�s cash? - MajorGeeks Support Forums 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC forums.majorgeeks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.In late 1978, a hunter walking just a few flying minutes north of Cooper's projected drop zone found a placard with instructions on how to lower the aft stairs of a 727. The placard was from the rear stairway of the plane from which Cooper jumped.^ Twenty minutes or so after takeoff, the man lowered the stairs at the back of the Boeing 727 and jumped.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]
• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

^ He asked to be flown to Mexico, before taking the cash and jumping out the Boeing 727-100’s rear stairway somewhere near the Oregon line, the Associated Press reports.

• Indiana Businessman Who May Have Faked His Own Death: The Next D.B. Cooper? - The Middle Seat Terminal - WSJ 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.wsj.com [Source type: News]

^ Cooper soon asked the only remaining stewardess (Tina Mucklow Larson) how to lower the rear stairs in the back of the 727.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^[35]

.On February 10, 1980, Brian Ingram, then eight years old, was with his family on a picnic when he found $5,880 in decaying bills (a total of 294 $20 bills), still bundled in rubber bands, approximately 40 feet (12 m) from the waterline and just 2 inches (5 cm) below the surface, on the banks of the Columbia River 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Vancouver, Washington.^ On February 10, 1980, a boy named Brian Ingram was digging a fire pit on the shore of the river northwest of Vancouver, Washington, when he found $5,800 in thrashed $20 bills.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ In 1980, a family on a picnic found $5,880 of Cooper's money in a bag on a Columbia River beach, near Vancouver.

• Gratuitous D.B. Cooper Citing - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC reason.com [Source type: General]

^ On February 13 , 1980 , $5,800 (in bundles of $20 bills) of the ransom money was found by a family on a picnic five miles northwest of Vancouver, Washington on the banks of the Columbia River.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[36] .After comparing the serial numbers with those from the ransom given to Cooper almost nine years earlier, it was proven that the money found by Ingram was part of the ransom given to Cooper.^ Not a trace of Dan Cooper or the money was found.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ No given the conditions that night and these new “facts” it appears Mr. Cooper ended up dying that night and most likely given where some of the money was found, in the Columbia River.

• 2 questions about D.B. Cooper - Blogger KING 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC blogs.king5.com [Source type: News]

^ Yet Cooper's body was never found, and only a portion of the ransom money — whose serial numbers the FBI had recorded — turned up when a child digging in a sand bar on the north bank of the Columbia River west of Vancouver in 1980 unearthed a bundle of $20 bills.

• Local News | D.B. Cooper puzzle: The legend turns 30 | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^[35] .Upon the discovery, then-FBI lead investigator Ralph Himmelsbach declared that the money "must have been deposited within a couple of years after the hijacking" because "rubber bands deteriorate rapidly and could not have held the bundles together for very long."^ Over the years, the FBI has run down thousands of leads and conducted thousands of interviews, including a handful involving people of special interest.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

^ FBI agent Himmelsbach had always believed Cooper either landed in the Columbia and drowned, or died in the mountains and the money was washed out.

• Fake Newspapers, Gag Birthday Gifts; TrixiePixGraphics.Com: Hijacker DB Cooper Caught! 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.trixiepixgraphics.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ "The fact it's the only unsolved hijacking keeps it high-profile," said FBI Agent Ralph Hope of Seattle, the latest in a list of agents in charge of the case.

• Local News | D.B. Cooper puzzle: The legend turns 30 | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^[37] .However, several area scientists recruited by the FBI for assistance with the case noted their belief that the money arrived at the beach as a result of a 1974 Army Corps of Engineers dredging operation.^ Now, the FBI is releasing sketches of the legendary hijacker, a map of the area where he could have landed and a handful of photos from the case.

• FBI Reopens Very Cold Case of D.B. Cooper : NPR 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

Furthermore, some scientists estimated that the money’s arrival must have occurred even later. .Geologist Leonard Palmer of Portland State University, for example, reportedly concluded that the 1974 dredging operation did not place the money on the Columbia's riverbank because Ingram had found the bills above clay deposits put on shore by the dredge.^ On February 10, 1980, a boy named Brian Ingram was digging a fire pit on the shore of the river northwest of Vancouver, Washington, when he found $5,800 in thrashed $20 bills.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ In after years, a Portland librarian was known to confess: "I've thought about ways to get a lot of money like he did, but I would never really do it, so I'm glad for him."

• John P. O'Grady 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC weberstudies.weber.edu [Source type: Original source]

^ On February 13 , 1980 , $5,800 (in bundles of $20 bills) of the ransom money was found by a family on a picnic five miles northwest of Vancouver, Washington on the banks of the Columbia River.

• D. B. Cooper at AllExperts 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC en.allexperts.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[38] .The FBI generally agree now that the money had to have arrived at the location on the riverbank no earlier than 1974. Some investigators and hydrologists have theorized that the bundled bills washed freely into the Columbia River from one of its many connecting tributaries, such as the Washougal River, which originate or run near Cooper's suspected landing zone.^ Look where the Washougal River is located.

• Hit & Run > Gratuitous D.B. Cooper Citing - Reason Magazine 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.reason.com [Source type: General]

^ Some investigators believed it might have been washed down to the beach by the Washougal River.

• Hit & Run > Gratuitous D.B. Cooper Citing - Reason Magazine 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.reason.com [Source type: General]

^ Seeing how none of his bills made it into circulation, that means IF he was lucky enough to have survived he lost the money.

• FARK.com: (4253809) After nearly 40 years researchers say a new theory is emerging in the D.B. Cooper case. Enter the rubber bands 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.fark.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Ingram's discovery of the $5,880 reinforced the FBI'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.^ The FBI says he did not survive the jump.

• Warren Kinsella - D. B. COOPER, IS THAT YOUR PARACHUTE? 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.warrenkinsella.com [Source type: General]

^ Did he survive the jump?

• FBI Reopens Very Cold Case of D.B. Cooper : NPR 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

^ Agents now believe Cooper was not an experienced skydiver because he made the jump in street clothes on a dark, rainy night; and he is believed to have acted alone because he did not coordinate with the flight crew to fly over a particular drop zone.

• FBI Reopens Very Cold Case of D.B. Cooper : NPR 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

.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.^ These operating conditions were just about the minimum for keeping a 727 aloftand at 10,000 feet in this part of the country there were mountains out there to worry about.

• John P. O'Grady 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC weberstudies.weber.edu [Source type: Original source]

^ Ingram said he wants to keep at least one of the bills for his family, offer one to a museum and auction off the rest.

• FBI Reopens Very Cold Case of D.B. Cooper : NPR 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

^ Knew about parachutes, though wasn't an expert because few experts would have jumped out of a plane in the conditions he faced.

• Citizen sleuths follow trail of elusive hijacker D.B. Cooper | McClatchy 25 September 2009 1:13 UTC www.mcclatchydc.com [Source type: News]

.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.^[39] As of 2009, the rest of the money remains unrecovered.^ Heritage Auction Galleries said the bills sold for a total of more than $37,000 -- two to three times higher...

• cooper and government Resources | BNET 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC resources.bnet.com [Source type: News]

^ Ingram said he wants to keep at least one of the bills for his family, offer one to a museum and auction off the rest.

• FBI Reopens Very Cold Case of D.B. Cooper : NPR 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

^ Ingram was given half of the money as a reward and recently sold 15 of the tattered bills through an auction house for nearly $40,000.

• Amateur detectives fish for D.B. Cooper clues OregonLive.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.oregonlive.com [Source type: News]

.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.^ He never specified the denominations of the ransom money so the FBI gave him 10,000 $20 bills (all of which had been photocopied) to slow him down.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ The boy was given a reward of $2760 including 15 of the original $20 bills.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ "There's a guy in a bar with a bunch of $20 bills, he's limping on one leg and someone asks where he got the roll, and he says he might of hijacked an airplane.

• Local News | D.B. Cooper puzzle: The legend turns 30 | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^[40]

.The FBI has investigated over a thousand "serious suspects" and ruled out most of them.^ FBI officials said they have considered more than 800 suspects and processed thousands of pieces of information.

• FBI Reopens Very Cold Case of D.B. Cooper : NPR 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

^ Jim Morrison Skyjacker D.B. Cooper's Identity Eludes FBI With over 200 suspects investigated, D.B. Cooper suspects have been numerous through the years with each year finding another person to investigate.

• D.b. Cooper - Associated Content - Topic - associatedcontent.com 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.associatedcontent.com [Source type: General]

^[4]

.The FBI believed that Cooper was familiar with the Seattle area, as he was able to recognize Tacoma from the air while the jet was circling over the Puget Sound.^ FBI agent Himmelsbach had always believed Cooper either landed in the Columbia and drowned, or died in the mountains and the money was washed out.

• Fake Newspapers, Gag Birthday Gifts; TrixiePixGraphics.Com: Hijacker DB Cooper Caught! 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.trixiepixgraphics.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ SEATTLE -- A parachute found buried in southwestern Washington was not used by plane hijacker D.B. Cooper when he bailed out over the Pacific Northwest in 1971, the FBI said Tuesday.

• cooper and government Resources | BNET 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC resources.bnet.com [Source type: News]

^ If you believe a persuasive San Diego cabdriver, D.B. Cooper was a drifter and card player who died of a cocaine overdose in California 15 years after skyjacking a Northwest Airlines jet between Portland and Seattle.

• Local News | D.B. Cooper puzzle: The legend turns 30 | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

.He also remarked to flight attendant Mucklow that McChord Air Force Base was approximately 20 minutes from the Seattle-Tacoma Airport.^ He had no trace of a regional accent, recognized Tacoma from the air and commented that McChord Air Force Base was only 20 minutes from the airport.

• D.B. Cooper 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC home.earthlink.net [Source type: Original source]
• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ The Air Force sent a pair of F-106s from McChord Air Base in pursuit and they were able to stay within five miles of the aircraft but they did not see anyone leave the plane.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The jet was barely in the air before he passed a note to a flight attendant, who slipped it unopened into a pocket.

• Local News | D.B. Cooper puzzle: The legend turns 30 | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

.Although the FBI initially believed that Cooper might have been an active or retired member of the United States Air Force, based on his apparent knowledge of jet aerodynamics and skydiving,^[18] it later changed this assessment, deciding that no experienced parachutist would have attempted such a risky jump and the fact that Cooper chose an older parachute from the two which were packed in the craft.^ Equipped with two parachutes and clasping a bag of $200,000 in ransom money, he hurtled through the rain clouds to the rugged terrain of Washington State below.

• The unsolved crime of the century: the hunt for D B Cooper - Americas, World - The Independent 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.independent.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Just two weeks earlier in Montana Paul Cini, who declared himself a member of the IRA, tried to become a para-jacker on an Air Canada flight with a gun but was subdued by the crew as he tried to put on his parachute.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Agents now believe Cooper was not an experienced skydiver because he made the jump in street clothes on a dark, rainy night; and he is believed to have acted alone because he did not coordinate with the flight crew to fly over a particular drop zone.

• FBI Reopens Very Cold Case of D.B. Cooper : NPR 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

The other was a professional sport parachute, the ideal choice.^[7]

.In 1971, mass-murderer John List was considered a suspect in the Cooper hijacking, which occurred only fifteen days after he had killed his family in Westfield, New Jersey.^ SEATTLE -- A parachute found buried in southwestern Washington was not used by plane hijacker D.B. Cooper when he bailed out over the Pacific Northwest in 1971, the FBI said Tuesday.

• cooper and government Resources | BNET 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC resources.bnet.com [Source type: News]

^ John J. Cooper was born in VA. Married Mary Hinkins December 2, 1833 in Shenandoah Co., VA. Listed 1834-1843 in Shenandoah Co.

• New Page 0 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www2.arkansas.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The Cooper case still remains on the FBI books as the only unsolved airplane hijacking in American history.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

.List's age, facial features, and build were similar to those described for the mysterious skyjacker.^ Though skyjackings were very common in those days, no one would have suspected this smartly dressed middle aged man with no discernable accent.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^[41] .FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach stated that List was a "viable suspect" in the case.^ FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who was to lead the subsequent investigation for nearly a decade, attempted to follow in a helicopter but was unable to catch up to the plane.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ FBI agent Himmelsbach had always believed Cooper either landed in the Columbia and drowned, or died in the mountains and the money was washed out.

• Fake Newspapers, Gag Birthday Gifts; TrixiePixGraphics.Com: Hijacker DB Cooper Caught! 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.trixiepixgraphics.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Listen to the interview with Special Agent Larry Carr, who is currently leading the FBI's investigation of the case, by clicking HERE (streams quickly after short pause).

• Steven Rinehart 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.stevenrinehart.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• Steven Rinehart 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.stevenrinehart.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[35] .Cooper parachuted from the hijacked airliner with $200,000, the same amount List had used up from his mother's bank account in the days before the killing.^ Cooper, using the pseudonym of Dan Cooper, in 1971 hijacked an airliner over the Pacific Northwest, demanding $200,000.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Before this, no hijacker had ever asked for a parachute.

• John P. O'Grady 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC weberstudies.weber.edu [Source type: Original source]

^ OGDEN -- An attorney who is writing a book about the D.B. Cooper investigation claims the legendary hijacker who vanished from the back of a passenger jet with $200,000 in ransom in 1971 survived and returned to his life as a college instructor in Ogden.

• cooper and government Resources | BNET 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC resources.bnet.com [Source type: News]

^[42] .After his capture and imprisonment in 1989, List strenuously denied being Cooper, and the FBI no longer considered him a suspect.^ Even if there's no chance that the FBI will catch Cooper, the fact that they're publicly pursuing him could have a deterrent effect.

• Gratuitous D.B. Cooper Citing - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC reason.com [Source type: General]

^ No record of Isles Cooper appears in Currituck before the county's tithable list of 1751 when he, John Cooper, and Joseph Cooper all appear with one tithable.

• Cooper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community-2.webtv.net [Source type: General]

^ And moreover being desirous to make provision for a son she hath by the said Isles Cooper, and to leave him the small estate that she hath...

• Cooper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community-2.webtv.net [Source type: General]

^[35] List died in prison custody on March 21, 2008.^[43]

On April 7, 1972, four months after Cooper's hijacking, Richard McCoy, Jr., under the alias "James Johnson," boarded United Airlines Flight 855 during a stopover in Denver, Colorado, and gave the flight steward an envelope labeled "Hijack Instructions," in which he demanded four parachutes and $500,000.^[35] He also instructed the pilot to land at San Francisco International Airport and order a refueling truck for the plane.^[44] The airplane was a Boeing 727 with aft stairs, which McCoy used in his escape. He was carrying a paper weight grenade and an empty pistol. He left his handwritten message on the plane, along with his fingerprints on a magazine he had been reading, which the FBI later used to establish positive identification.

.Police began investigating McCoy following a tip from Utah Highway Patrolman Robert Van Ieperen, who was a friend of McCoy's.^ FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who was to lead the subsequent investigation for nearly a decade, attempted to follow in a helicopter but was unable to catch up to the plane.

• D.B. Cooper's Disappearing Act 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.super70s.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Six months later in Utah, the tie and tie clasp took on new importance in the Richard McCoy investigation.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The stake-out of the house apparently was based on information first supplied by McCoy's sister-in-law and a good friend of McCoy who is a Utah Highway Patrolman.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^[45] .Apparently, after the Cooper hijacking, McCoy had made a reference that Cooper should have asked for $500,000, instead of $200,000. He had a record as a Vietnam veteran and was a former helicopter pilot.^ Records for a Benjamin COOPER who made his mark with an "O" have been found in Southampton County, VA, as late as 1757 (Southampton was formed from Isle of Wight in 1749).

• Cooper, Fleet, of Sampson County, North Carolina 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.johncroom.com [Source type: Original source]

^ McCoy was convicted of hijacking a United Airlines jetliner April 7, 1972, obtaining a $500,000 ransom and then parachuting at night near Provo, Utah.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ During the flight, Cooper handed the flight attendant a note saying he had a bomb in his briefcase and wanted $200,000 in $20 bills and four parachutes.

• FBI Reopens Very Cold Case of D.B. Cooper : NPR 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

^[46]

.On April 9, following the fingerprint and handwriting match, McCoy was arrested for the United 855 hijacking.^ They even arrested Richard Floyd McCoy for a similar airplane hijacking and escape five months after Cooper's flight, but McCoy was ruled out as a suspect in the Flight 305 hijacking because he didn't match the physical description.

• FBI Reopens Very Cold Case of D.B. Cooper : NPR 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.npr.org [Source type: News]

^ McCoy was convicted of hijacking a United Airlines jetliner April 7, 1972, obtaining a $500,000 ransom and then parachuting at night near Provo, Utah.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Pages 91-95: The Arrest Sunday, 9 April 1972, Provo "They're harder to see at night," remembered Karen McCoy.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^{[44] [46]} McCoy claimed innocence, but was convicted and received a 45-year sentence. Once incarcerated, using his access to the prison's dental office, McCoy fashioned a fake handgun out of dental paste. .He and a crew of convicts escaped in August 1974 by stealing a garbage truck and crashing it through the prison's main gate.^ The guard opened the gate, the FBI said, and the inmarcs then crashed the truck through a second gate to freedom.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The FBI said the convicts showed a gun to a prison guard at the first of two back gates to the maximum security prison.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Pages 213-214: 4 CRASH OUT OF LEWISBURG Lewisburg, PA. (UPI) 8-11-74 -- Four armed convicts, including a former Mormon Sunday School teacher involved in a bizarre 1972 hijacking, crshed a commandeered garbage truck through a gate at a federal penitentiary Saturday and disappeared into the central Pennsylvania mountains.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

.It took three months before the FBI located McCoy in Virginia.^ After several months as a fugitive, McCoy was killed in a shootout with th e FBI in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Six months later in Utah, the tie and tie clasp took on new importance in the Richard McCoy investigation.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

.McCoy shot at the FBI agents, and agent Nicholas O'Hara fired back with a shotgun, killing him.^ The day after the skyjacking, FBI agents checked out a Portland man with that name and quickly cleared him.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ After several months as a fugitive, McCoy was killed in a shootout with th e FBI in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Four or five FBI agents were standing over him with their guns drawn.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^[44]

.In 1991, Bernie Rhodes and former FBI agent Russell Calame coauthored D.B. Cooper: The Real McCoy, in which they claimed that Cooper and McCoy were really the same person, citing similar methods of hijacking and a tie and mother-of-pearl tie clip, left on the plane by Cooper.^ The agent learned for the first time that the pilot, who had been manually flying the plane that night because of Cooper's speed and altitude demands, was traveling farther east than authorities had realized.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ In preparation for his jump, Cooper removed his narrow, dark clip-on necktie and milky mother-of-pearl tie clasp and left them on seat 18E. FBI agents searching the Cooper plane in Reno found them.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ SEATTLE -- A parachute found buried in southwestern Washington was not used by plane hijacker D.B. Cooper when he bailed out over the Pacific Northwest in 1971, the FBI said Tuesday.

• cooper and government Resources | BNET 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC resources.bnet.com [Source type: News]

.The authors said that McCoy "never admitted nor denied he was Cooper."^ Listen to the interview with Rusell Calame, co-author of D.B. Cooper: The Real McCoy , by clicking HERE (streams quickly after short pause).

• Steven Rinehart 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.stevenrinehart.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• Steven Rinehart 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.stevenrinehart.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[47] .And when McCoy was directly asked whether he was Cooper he replied, "I don't want to talk to you about it."^ I don't know, I guess you could say we were getting along fairly well until he wanted to go back and I couldn't understand this.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ A misphonia means you are talking incorrectly, don't know it, but can beat the failing voice by using your voice correctly.

• Interviews from Speech Pathology Online: Interview with Mort Cooper, Ph.D. 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.speechpathology.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Cooper 2007 MINI Cooper S - Grins/Cubic-Meter Zero to 100kph is fine, but how much does it tell you about a car?

• D.b. Cooper - Associated Content - Topic - associatedcontent.com 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.associatedcontent.com [Source type: General]

^[44] .The agent who killed McCoy is quoted as supposedly saying, "When I shot Richard McCoy, I shot D. B. Cooper at the same time."^ The movie does not correctly identify Richard McCoy as the man who used the "Cooper" alias.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Below are excerpts from a well-researched book about Richard McCoy, the actual "D.B. Cooper": Selected LDS-related excerpts from the book D.B. Cooper: The Real McCoy .

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ During the course of my investigations back in 1972, I became convinced that Cooper and McCoy were the same man.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^[44] .The widow of Richard McCoy, Karen Burns McCoy, reached a $120,000 legal settlement with the book's co-authors and its publisher,^[44] after claiming they misrepresented her involvement in the hijacking and later events from interviews done with her attorney in the 1970s.^ McCoy was convicted of hijacking a United Airlines jetliner April 7, 1972, obtaining a $500,000 ransom and then parachuting at night near Provo, Utah.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ On 26 May 1972 Assistant United States Attorney Jim Housley stood and advised the court that Richard McCoy was present for arraignment.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Below are excerpts from a well-researched book about Richard McCoy, the actual "D.B. Cooper": Selected LDS-related excerpts from the book D.B. Cooper: The Real McCoy .

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^[48]

.FBI Special Agent Larry Carr does not believe McCoy was Cooper, saying McCoy didn't match the description and that he was at home the day after the hijacking having Thanksgiving dinner with his family in Utah.^ I believe the primary source for this assertion has been The Cooper Family, which was written by Murphy Rowe Cooper and published in 1931.

• Cooper, Fleet, of Sampson County, North Carolina 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.johncroom.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The movie does not correctly identify Richard McCoy as the man who used the "Cooper" alias.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ "The fact it's the only unsolved hijacking keeps it high-profile," said FBI Agent Ralph Hope of Seattle, the latest in a list of agents in charge of the case.

• Local News | D.B. Cooper puzzle: The legend turns 30 | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^[49]

.In July 2000, U.S. News & World Report ran an article about a widow in Pace, Florida, named Jo Weber and her claim that her late husband, Duane L. Weber (born 1924 in Ohio), had told her "I'm Dan Cooper" before his death on March 28, 1995.^[4] She became suspicious and began checking into his background.^ During the filming of THE PATRIOT (2000), one extra reports that during one take, instead of reciting his line 'Prime and load', Cooper reportedly commanded the troops to 'Lock and load'.

• Chris Cooper Picture, Video, Wallpaper, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.celebritywonder.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ March 13, 2009 Finally, Some Good News No doubt about it, the Canadian employment nosedive in February is bad news, but it is bad news that is in lagged response to what has already been happening around the world MORE .

• SHERRY S. COOPER, Ph.D. 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.sherrycooper.com [Source type: General]

^ NOAH COOPER , son of James and Elizabeth (Wager) Cooper, born 1787, died after 1817 in Coshocton County, Ohio .

• The Cooper Genealogy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC external.oneonta.edu [Source type: Academic]

.Weber had served in the Army during World War II and had later served time in a prison near the Portland airport.^ Andersonville prison during the Civil War.

• D C O'Driscoll / Hemings 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC dcodriscoll.pbworks.com [Source type: Academic]

^ William Cary served in the Marine Corps in World War II and was a professor of corporation law at Columbia University.

• The Cooper Genealogy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC external.oneonta.edu [Source type: Academic]

^ Austin Clare Cooper, poster and abstract artist, served in World War I with Canadian Black Watch, b 6 March 1890, m, and d Aug 1964, leaving issue, 7/1.

• Cooper-Chadwick Genealogy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.antonymaitland.com [Source type: Academic]

.Weber recalled that her husband had once had a nightmare where he talked in his sleep about jumping from a plane and said something about leaving his fingerprints on the aft stairs.^ Not going to have much else to talk about from here on out for awhile (I wish there was a cutting edge car or something to discuss while we pass the time waiting).

• Automaker Loans Deferred to December and Will Only be Provided Based on Automakers Plans for Viability, GM Agrees | GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC gm-volt.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[50] Jo recalled that shortly before Duane's death, he had revealed to her that an old knee injury of his had been incurred by "jumping out of a plane."^[4]

Weber also recounts a 1979 vacation the couple took to Seattle, "a sentimental journey," Duane told Jo, with a visit to the Columbia River.^[4] .She remembers how Duane walked down to the banks of the Columbia by himself just four months before the portion of Cooper's cash was found in the same area.^ I don't think so because he would have floated especially with all that gear he had on eventually he'd have floated over to the bank and found,same with the river theories.

• Want to buy some of D.B. Cooper�s cash? - MajorGeeks Support Forums 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC forums.majorgeeks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The best clue turned up nine years later: $6,000 in bills found by a boy along the banks of the Columbia River.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ February 27, 2009 A More Prudent Society It has now been publicized around the world just how strong our banking system is in Canada MORE .

• SHERRY S. COOPER, Ph.D. 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.sherrycooper.com [Source type: General]

.Weber related that she had checked out a book on the Cooper case from the local library and saw notations in it that matched her husband's handwriting.^ Himmelsbach has written a book on the case (NORJAK: The Investigation of D.B. Cooper) and believes the skyjacker likely died near where he landed.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ Below are excerpts from a well-researched book about Richard McCoy, the actual "D.B. Cooper": Selected LDS-related excerpts from the book D.B. Cooper: The Real McCoy .

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The Cooper case still remains on the FBI books as the only unsolved airplane hijacking in American history.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

.She began corresponding with Himmelsbach, the former chief investigator of the case, who subsequently agreed that much of the circumstantial evidence surrounding Weber fit the hijacker's profile.^ Himmelsbach has written a book on the case (NORJAK: The Investigation of D.B. Cooper) and believes the skyjacker likely died near where he landed.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ In, say, a school, it is much more difficult to diagnose a case of students who don't learn what they could than it is to notice a light that doesn't light.

• Amazon.com: Profile For D B Cooper: Reviews 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.amazon.com [Source type: General]

^ Transcripts of the trial, appeals, and private correspondence with agents who worked both cases are pan of the documentation that buttresses our reconstruction.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

However, the FBI stopped investigating Weber in July 1998 because of a lack of evidence.^[4]

.The FBI compared Weber's prints with those processed from the hijacked plane and found no matches.^ Road Network Extraction In Remote Sensing - Markov Object Process   (Correct) No context found.

• Citations: Automatic finding of main roads in aerial images by using geometric-stochastic models and estimation - Barzohar, Cooper (ResearchIndex) 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC citeseer.ist.psu.edu [Source type: Academic]

^[50] .In October 2007, the FBI stated that a partial DNA sample taken from the tie that Cooper had left on the plane did not belong to Weber.^ Cars Mystery of D.B. Cooper Still Pursued by FBI The FBI reveals it has a DNA sample of mystery man D.B. Cooper who hijacked a 727 in 1971, then jumped from the rear of the plane with $200,000 in cash By W Thomas Payne   |  Published 1/7/2008 More topics: Parachutes .

• D.b. Cooper - Associated Content - Topic - associatedcontent.com 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.associatedcontent.com [Source type: General]

^ Pagé, M.-P., Hailes, W., and Cooper, R.L. ( 2007 ) Modification of the tail flip escape response in crayfish by neuromodulation and behavioral state with and without descending CNS input.

• COOPER-PUBLICATIONS 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC web.as.uky.edu [Source type: Academic]

^ After Cooper's demands were met, he ordered the 727 to again take off from Sea-Tac and then jumped from the rear of the plane somewhere over Washington state.

• Fake Newspapers, Gag Birthday Gifts; TrixiePixGraphics.Com: Hijacker DB Cooper Caught! 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.trixiepixgraphics.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[7]

.The October 29, 2007 issue of New York magazine stated that Kenneth P. Christiansen had been identified as a suspect by Sherlock Investigations.^ Candidate for New York state assembly from New York County 8th District, 1940.

• The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Cooper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC politicalgraveyard.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ It is also hoped that it will encourage those working on the Cooper genealogy to submit further information to the New York State Historical Association's collection of Cooper information.

• The Cooper Genealogy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC external.oneonta.edu [Source type: Academic]

^ Cooper, Herbert — of Brooklyn, Kings County , N.Y. American Labor candidate for New York state assembly from Kings County 18th District, 1954.

• The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Cooper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC politicalgraveyard.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.The article noted that Christiansen is a former army paratrooper, a former airline employee, had settled in Washington near the site of the hijacking, was familiar with the local terrain, had purchased property with cash a year after the hijacking, drank bourbon and smoked (as did Cooper during the flight) and resembled the eyewitness sketches of Cooper.^ Meh, whatever, probably the most enjoyable article I did during my stint at TIME. Premiered a month before I got laid-off.

• Troy Polamalu is scaring me - Ta-Nehisi Coates 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com [Source type: General]

^ Compare these sketches of skyjacker "D.B. Cooper", drawn from eyewitness accounts, with photographs of Richard McCoy.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ McCoy was convicted of hijacking a United Airlines jetliner April 7, 1972, obtaining a $500,000 ransom and then parachuting at night near Provo, Utah.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^[11] However, the FBI ruled out Christiansen because his complexion, height, weight and eye color did not match the descriptions given by the passengers or the crew of Flight 305.^[51]

.On August 4, 2008, Canadian Press reported that a Spokane, Washington lawyer believes that the ransom money is stored in a Vancouver, British Columbia, safe deposit box under the name of William Gossett, a college instructor from Ogden, Utah, who died in 2003. Lawyer Galen Cook says that Gossett matches the sketches circulated by the FBI. Also, Gossett is alleged to have bragged to his sons about the hijacking and shown them a key to the safe deposit box.^ Find out who gave and received more than $38 million in campaign donations that candidates reported to the state of Iowa between 2003 and late 2008.

• Iowa campaign contributions | The Des Moines Register 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC data.desmoinesregister.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Man who found the money at age 8 considers an auction Interesting AP article about a man who; at age 8 was scrounging for firewood in the sands along the Columbia River (during a family vacation in 1980) when he uncovered three bundles of deteriorated $20 bills which turned out to be some of the D.B Cooper plane hijacker's ransom loot.

• Want to buy some of D.B. Cooper�s cash? - MajorGeeks Support Forums 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC forums.majorgeeks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Some believe the find showed Cooper landed in or near the Columbia River, but hydrologists concluded the tattered and still-bundled money was more likely deposited by a stream flow than human hands.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^[52] .Gossett is also said to have confessed to two people, including a judge and a lawyer, and his own son also believed his father to be the hijacker.^ Very likely these two of the same name and living in relatively close proximity were related, possibly as uncle and nephew or father and son.

• Cooper, Fleet, of Sampson County, North Carolina 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.johncroom.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Most sons lived on nearby plantations and William the father owned a mill which he willed to Benjamin after the death of his sons' mother.

• Cooper, Fleet, of Sampson County, North Carolina 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.johncroom.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Ta-Nehisi Coates The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood .

• Troy Polamalu is scaring me - Ta-Nehisi Coates 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com [Source type: General]

^[53] .By fleeing from the country, Cooper would be out of law enforcement boundaries.^ D.B. Cooper's case has yielded little but dead ends for law enforcement.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Cooper was the first ever to do this, and, while initially caught off guard, law enforcement quickly adapted to counter this criminal innovation.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

.(The value of this is unclear given Canada's extradition treaty with the United States, though the current treaty came into effect five years after the hijacking.^ And I have to say it seems odd that Waggoner made more than the top five executives at Honda Motors last year given the performance of their respective companies.

• Automaker Loans Deferred to December and Will Only be Provided Based on Automakers Plans for Viability, GM Agrees | GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC gm-volt.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Under this new agreement State law will be eased concerning the current 10 year minimum battery life standard on vehicles sold in America.

• Automaker Loans Deferred to December and Will Only be Provided Based on Automakers Plans for Viability, GM Agrees | GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC gm-volt.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ For many years a member of the Staff of the New Yorker Magazine , covering the United States Space Program.

• The Cooper Genealogy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC external.oneonta.edu [Source type: Academic]

)

The hijacking caused major changes in commercial flight safety, mainly in the form of metal detectors added to the airports by the airline companies, several related flight safety rules set in place by the FAA, and modifications made to the Boeing 727 aircraft. .Following three similar but less successful hijackings in 1972, the Federal Aviation Administration required that all Boeing 727 aircraft be fitted with a device known as the "Cooper vane", a mechanical aerodynamic wedge that prevents the airstair or rear stairway of an aircraft from being lowered in flight.^ Cooper Brief History of the Life of James Fenimore Cooper Cooper is most famous for being a well known and respected author.

• D.b. Cooper - Associated Content - Topic - associatedcontent.com 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.associatedcontent.com [Source type: General]

^ McCoy is being held in the Salt Lake County Jail without bail on federal charges of air piracy and interfering with a flight attendant.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ If they were the same person, where did the penniless Fleet acquire the means to purchase this land less than three years after being lame?

• Cooper, Fleet, of Sampson County, North Carolina 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.johncroom.com [Source type: Original source]

^[17]

On November 1, 2007, the FBI released detailed information concerning some of the evidence in their possession, which they had not revealed to the public before.^[54] .The FBI displayed Cooper's 1971 plane ticket from Portland to Seattle, which cost $18.52. It also revealed that he requested four parachutes—two main back chutes and two reserve chest chutes.^ A restaurant in Salt Lake City calls itself "D.B. Cooper's," and will host a "Jump Night" party and give away either a round-trip ticket to Seattle or parachuting lessons.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ Cooper: I submitted a chapter in his prestigious handbook back in 1971 titled "Modern Techniques of Vocal Rehabilitation for Functional and Organic Dysphonias" of which he said was one of the two best chapters in his handbook.

• Interviews from Speech Pathology Online: Interview with Mort Cooper, Ph.D. 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.speechpathology.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Once Cooper got $200,000 and four parachutes, the plane was emptied except for him and four crew members.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

Authorities inadvertently supplied Cooper with a "dummy" reserve chute—an unusable parachute that is sewn shut for classroom demonstration. .The dummy chute was not left behind on the plane, and some theorize Cooper did not realize it was not functional.^ Is it possible that Benjamin COOPER left Philadelphia for Virginia later than some have suggested?

• Cooper, Fleet, of Sampson County, North Carolina 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.johncroom.com [Source type: Original source]

^ James' son Benjamin, who some allege was the father of our FLEET COOPER, later of Sampson County, did not marry in Philadelphia until 1720.

• Cooper, Fleet, of Sampson County, North Carolina 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.johncroom.com [Source type: Original source]

^[54] This piece of information had been revealed in a 1979 episode of TV documentary series In Search of.... .The other reserve parachute, which was a functional parachute, was popped open and the shrouds were cut and supposedly used to secure the money bag.^ He had cut nylon cords off one of the remaining chutes, apparently so he could tie on the money bag.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ They have to cut health care benefits to retirees and use that money for new product development.

• Automaker Loans Deferred to December and Will Only be Provided Based on Automakers Plans for Viability, GM Agrees | GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC gm-volt.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ He's equally convinced he will one day find something, a parachute harness, a remnant of the money bag or maybe scraps of the loot.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

.On December 31, 2007, the FBI issued a press release online containing never before seen photos and fact sheets in an attempt to trigger memories or useful information regarding Cooper's identity.^ More than twenty never-before-released links in the modus operandi of the two cases are startlingly identical.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Keegan K, Cooper JA. Use of the two hybrid system to detect the association of the protein-tyrosine-phosphatase, SHPTP2, with another SH2-containing protein, Grb7.

• Publications 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC labs.fhcrc.org [Source type: Academic]

^ Copyright © 2007 Chester R. Cooper, Jr. Buttons used in this web page were created using Buttongenerator .

• Dr. Chet Cooper's Home Page 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.as.ysu.edu [Source type: Academic]

.In the fact sheets, the FBI withdrew its previous theory that Cooper was either an experienced skydiver or paratrooper.^ The facts set forth herein are drawn from our previous decision in Cooper I and from the Board's findings on remand in Cooper II , which are not challenged on appeal.

• PETER B. COOPER v. DAVID GOLDFARB 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.ll.georgetown.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[55] .While it was initially believed that Cooper must have had training to have performed such a feat, later analysis of the chain of events led the FBI to reevaluate this claim.^ EDUCATION/ TRAINING ( Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.

• PHS 398 (Rev. 9/04), Biographical Sketch Format Page 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.bcm.edu [Source type: Academic]

^ FBI believes were caused by Cooper jumping off the ramplike stairway, forcing it to snap shut briefly before re-opening.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ But retired FBI agent and author Richard Towser now leads a team searching for bits of his parachute in the cold waters of the Columbia, where he believes Cooper died.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

.Investigators said that no experienced paratrooper or skydiver would attempt a jump during a rainstorm with no light source.^ Sister Mathews said, no, she shouldn't, and of course talked to her in a sensible manner like anybody would.

• LDS folk hero D. B. Cooper and movie "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" (1981) 11 September 2009 4:04 UTC www.ldsfilm.com [Source type: Original source]

^[55] .Investigators also believe that, even if Cooper was in a hurry to escape, an experienced jumper or paratrooper would have stopped to inspect his chutes.^ Himmelsbach has written a book on the case (NORJAK: The Investigation of D.B. Cooper) and believes the skyjacker likely died near where he landed.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^ He believes nothing short of death would have separated Cooper from the money he gambled his life to get.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^[7]

.On March 24, 2008, the FBI announced that it was in possession of a parachute recovered from a field in northern Clark County, Washington, near the town of Amboy.^ Died near Cartersville, Bartow County , Ga., March 17, 1885 .

• The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Cooper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC politicalgraveyard.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Otter Creek is a tributary of the Kentucky River and lies in present day Madison County, KY, near the town of Richmond.

• New Page 0 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www2.arkansas.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.A property owner was in the process of making a private road with a bulldozer when the blade caught some cloth, and his children pulled the cloth until the canopy lines appeared.^ The second is that, in the manuscript history, at some time the form appeared as "avm" with a line over it to signify an abbreviation.

• D. Cooper: Bee Tidbits 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.chebucto.ns.ca [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Earl Cossey, the man who provided the four parachutes that were given to Cooper by the FBI, examined the newly found chute and on April 1, 2008 said that "absolutely, for sure" it could not have been one of the four that he supplied in 1971. The Cooper parachutes were made of nylon, unlike the new chute that was recovered which is made of silk and most likely made around 1945.^[56] The FBI later made a press release confirming Cossey's findings.^ Mary Cooper, who supplied this information.

• Cooper-Chadwick Genealogy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.antonymaitland.com [Source type: Academic]

^ Virginia patents and grants, as well as several other records that I have reviewed, suggest to me that Fleet COOPER, SR , most likely was born in southeastern Virginia.

• Cooper, Fleet, of Sampson County, North Carolina 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.johncroom.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Records for a Benjamin COOPER who made his mark with an "O" have been found in Southampton County, VA, as late as 1757 (Southampton was formed from Isle of Wight in 1749).

• Cooper, Fleet, of Sampson County, North Carolina 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.johncroom.com [Source type: Original source]

.Investigators reached their official conclusion after consulting Cossey and other parachute experts.^ The agency came to its conclusion after speaking with parachute experts and digging where children found...

• cooper and government Resources | BNET 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC resources.bnet.com [Source type: News]

."From the best we could learn from the people we spoke to, it just didn't look like it was the right kind of parachute in any way," said FBI spokeswoman Robbie Burroughs.^ People Search is great way to find and reconnect with family, old friends, relatives — just about anyone!

• People Search & Directory Services Powered By Intelius 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.intelius.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ It's a solid book in a lot of ways, it just has the feel of a research project that didn't work out but too much time had been spent on to abandon.

• Amazon.com: Profile For D B Cooper: Reviews 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.amazon.com [Source type: General]

^ Still, some parachute and survival experts like Frank Heyl of Lake Oswego, Ore., insist Cooper could have made it - with luck and training.

• Business | D.B. Cooper -- Perfect Crime Or Perfect Folly? | Seattle Times Newspaper 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC community.seattletimes.nwsource.com [Source type: News]

^[57] .Further digging at the site in southwestern Washington turned up no indication that it could have been Cooper's.^ SEATTLE -- A parachute found buried in southwestern Washington was not used by plane hijacker D.B. Cooper when he bailed out over the Pacific Northwest in 1971, the FBI said Tuesday.

• cooper and government Resources | BNET 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC resources.bnet.com [Source type: News]

^ However, no evidence of record indicates that Cooper knew the fibril lengths of the material tested by Goldfarb at the relevant time, i.e., prior to Goldfarb's reduction to practice in 1973.

• PETER B. COOPER v. DAVID GOLDFARB 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.ll.georgetown.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ While no evidence suggests he was a father of Fleet of Sampson County, it is possible that this line of COOPER families in nearby by Bladen County could have contributed to some mistaken identifications.

• Cooper, Fleet, of Sampson County, North Carolina 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.johncroom.com [Source type: Original source]

^[57]

.FBI Special Agent Larry Carr has theorized that Cooper took his alias from Dan Cooper, a French-Canadian comic book hero who is a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force and is depicted parachuting on the cover of one issue.^ Samuel Cooper, of Beamore, Co Meath, b May 1729, m 18 July 1766, Elizabeth Nugent, and d 15 May 1797, having had issue, with one dau, 2/1.

• Cooper-Chadwick Genealogy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.antonymaitland.com [Source type: Academic]

^ Anne Virginia Cooper, b 16 Dec1931, m Mr Bell, and has issue, three sons and one dau.

• Cooper-Chadwick Genealogy 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.antonymaitland.com [Source type: Academic]

^ I was informed in July 2001 by a family member of Murphy Rowe Cooper that the author died in 1959 and none of the heirs knows of the whereabouts of his backup material of his book.

• Cooper, Fleet, of Sampson County, North Carolina 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.johncroom.com [Source type: Original source]

^[58]

.Cooper's daring and unprecedented acts inspired a cult following, expressed through song, film and literature.^ Cooper is a longtime, regional radio personality and has acted and directed for film and stage.

• DB Cooper: The face behind the voice | SeacoastOnline.com 10 February 2010 13:54 UTC www.seacoastonline.com [Source type: General]

Cities in the Pacific Northwest sold tourist souvenirs and held celebrations in his memory. He is remembered in Ariel with an annual "Cooper Day" event on November 24, and elsewhere with Cooper-themed promotions held by restaurants and bowling alleys.^[59]