Who was the guy that jumped out of the plane?

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Don Vito Corleone

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There was actually a movie made about this when I was a little kid in the late '70s. IIRC it was called "The Flight of DB Cooper".
 
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I believe the never found him, never found a body, never found the money. He jumped at night, into a very rugged part of country that most seasoned outdoorsmen wouldn't want to be stuck in, with nothing but the money.
 
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That dude. His parents-in-law are my grandfather's neighbors in Portland. Every time I hear the name I go "who?".

Funny, I skimmed those chapters and saw no mention of him leaving his wife behind.
 
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this occured when i was a kid living in Washington
we lived under the flight path (seattle to portland)

helicopters scoured the area for days looking for that guy, they weren't exactly sure at what point he jumped out of the aircraft, so they searched a huge area
 
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Originally posted by: slick230
I believe the never found him, never found a body, never found the money. He jumped at night, into a very rugged part of country that most seasoned outdoorsmen wouldn't want to be stuck in, with nothing but the money.
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IMO, he was caught. His real name was Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., although they never actually got him on the actual DB Cooper case and some said he was just a copycat, although he did match Cooper's description and MO exactly.
A few months after the DB Cooper incident in Portland, McCoy pulled exactly the same stunt on a flight from Denver to LA, had the plane land in SF, got $500k in ransom money, and then had the place fly back over Utah where he bailed out.
The FBI was later able to find, bust, and convict McCoy on the basis on analysis done on handwritten notes he had passed up to the pilot using the stewardess.
McCoy was a Green Beret, a Vietnam vet, a helicopter pilot, a trained paratrooper and skydiver, and was serving in the Utah Air National Guard at the time.
 
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Originally posted by: FoBoT
this occured when i was a kid living in Washington
we lived under the flight path (seattle to portland)

helicopters scoured the area for days looking for that guy, they weren't exactly sure at what point he jumped out of the aircraft, so they searched a huge area
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You lived out in rural northeastern Clark county outside Vancouver?
 
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Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: FoBoT
this occured when i was a kid living in Washington
we lived under the flight path (seattle to portland)

helicopters scoured the area for days looking for that guy, they weren't exactly sure at what point he jumped out of the aircraft, so they searched a huge area
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You lived out in rural northeastern Clark county outside Vancouver?
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yes, we lived in LaCenter at the time. we moved to central washington in '76
 
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Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: slick230
I believe the never found him, never found a body, never found the money. He jumped at night, into a very rugged part of country that most seasoned outdoorsmen wouldn't want to be stuck in, with nothing but the money.
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IMO, he was caught. His real name was Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., although they never actually got him on the actual DB Cooper case and some said he was just a copycat, although he did match Cooper's description and MO exactly.
A few months after the DB Cooper incident in Portland, McCoy pulled exactly the same stunt on a flight from Denver to LA, had the plane land in SF, got $500k in ransom money, and then had the place fly back over Utah where he bailed out.
The FBI was later able to find, bust, and convict McCoy on the basis on analysis done on handwritten notes he had passed up to the pilot using the stewardess.
McCoy was a Green Beret, a Vietnam vet, a helicopter pilot, a trained paratrooper and skydiver, and was serving in the Utah Air National Guard at the time.
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Actually, you are giving the FBI too much credit. The story that was linked earlier explains how McCoy was a hot head who bragged to a friend, who in turn gave the tip to the authorities. Judging from the description given by the stewardess and general mannerism of DB Cooper, I don't see how such a meticulous individual like that would foil his own master plan by blabbing it to a friend. No, he seems more intelligent than that. I'm with the camp that believes he either died plummeting or he's in living a good life.

One last point: The Cooper pilot said the plane was heading West, not east as to the location where he suspcts Cooper took the plunge. The FBI and subsequent searches were off base, and of coarse the explosion of Mt. St. Helen pretty well sealed off any further investigation.
 
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KeyserSoze

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Originally posted by: KirbsAw
Remember that episode of News Radio where they say Jimmy James was DB Cooper? :D
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Matthew: "Are you Doobie Keebler."


(Someone already mentioned this above. haha.)





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