Was DB Cooper's parachute found?

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » March 26, 2008 11:29 am

Parachute May Belong to Famed Hijacker

By GENE JOHNSON – 1 hour ago

SEATTLE (AP) — Hoping to solve at least part of a 36-year-old mystery, the FBI is analyzing a torn, tangled parachute found in southwest Washington to determine if it belonged to famed plane hijacker D.B. Cooper.

Children playing outside their home near Amboy found the chute's fabric sticking up from the ground in an area where their father had been grading a road, agent Larry Carr said Tuesday. They pulled it out as far as they could, then cut the parachute's ropes with scissors.

The children had seen recent media coverage of the case — the FBI launched a publicity campaign last fall, hoping to generate tips on the unsolved highjacking — and they urged their dad to call the agency.

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phjrsaunt · Post by **phjrsaunt** » March 26, 2008 11:46 am

Wasn't this in a movie???

Up a River? Up a Stream? or something like that?

Bucs_fan · Post by **Bucs_fan** » March 26, 2008 11:49 am

I just watched a clip on DB on the History Channel (I think it was the history channel) the other night. It was a 2 hour special on the 20 greatest unsolved crimes. Cool to see this article now.

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » March 26, 2008 12:09 pm

phjrsaunt wrote:Wasn't this in a movie???

Up a River? Up a Stream? or something like that?

there was a movie in the early 80's The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper which was actually about the hijacking

In 2004 there was a movie, Without a Paddle, that was about a group of people that go camping to find the lost money

phjrsaunt · Post by **phjrsaunt** » March 26, 2008 12:16 pm

ph4ever wrote:
phjrsaunt wrote:Wasn't this in a movie???

Up a River? Up a Stream? or something like that?

there was a movie in the early 80's The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper which was actually about the hijacking

In 2004 there was a movie, Without a Paddle, that was about a group of people that go camping to find the lost money

Ahhhhh....I'm about 48 years behind on watching movies...we just saw it like a month ago!!

carey24 · Post by **carey24** » March 26, 2008 12:19 pm

"Without a paddle" is the funniest movie I've ever seen. I love it. I totally thought the DB Cooper part was movie fiction!

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » March 26, 2008 12:21 pm

carey24 wrote:"Without a paddle" is the funniest movie I've ever seen. I love it. I totally thought the DB Cooper part was movie fiction!

while on the other hand, I'm old enough to remember when it actually happened

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » March 26, 2008 12:27 pm

In 1980, a family on a picnic found $5,880 of Cooper's money in a bag on a Columbia River beach, near Vancouver. Some investigators believed it might have been washed down to the beach by the Washougal River. But if Cooper landed near Amboy and stashed the money bag there, there's no way it could have naturally reached the Washougal.

I remember when that was in the news. Love these stories where no one can figure out exactly what happened, but we're still getting clues almost four decades later.

East Texas Parrothead · March 26, 2008 12:29 pm

I saw that on the wire this morning ... wow. Wouldn't that be something?

carolinagirl · Post by **carolinagirl** » March 26, 2008 12:45 pm

ph4ever wrote:
carey24 wrote:"Without a paddle" is the funniest movie I've ever seen. I love it. I totally thought the DB Cooper part was movie fiction!
while on the other hand, I'm old enough to remember when it actually happened

Me too!

flyboy55 · Post by **flyboy55** » March 26, 2008 2:58 pm

I have a long overdue confession . . .

I am 'D.B.' Cooper.

I won't go into the details, but just to answer the BIG question first . . . I never jumped off the plane. That part was a set-up. A guy would have to be nuts to go off the back airstair of a 727. Like most pilots, I have a phobia about jumping out of perfectly good airplanes.

If I didn't jump, how did I get off the plane, you ask? Eventually, the same way everybody else did - through the 1L exit. Why get dramatic?

Finally, why didn't I get caught when I left the plane? That was the sweet part. Everybody was looking for a 'hijacker' named Cooper. Nobody was looking for a . . . well . . . I'll leave that part out.

As for the money, don't worry it was well spent . . . wine, women and . . . more wine and women . . . as the saying goes.

a1aara · Post by **a1aara** » March 26, 2008 8:55 pm

Todd Snider wrote a whole song about this. It's called : "D.B. Cooper"

Check it out. Good stuff!

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » March 26, 2008 11:34 pm

a1aara wrote:Todd Snider wrote a whole song about this. It's called : "D.B. Cooper"

Check it out. Good stuff!

and swears it is true..

OystersandBeer · Post by **OystersandBeer** » March 26, 2008 11:44 pm

Check out this convincing segment on Inside Edition about D.B. Cooper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dat-UPEB ... re=related

TropicalTroubador · Post by **TropicalTroubador** » March 27, 2008 2:38 pm

Personally, I liked the Far Side cartoon, "What *really* happened to DB Cooper," which showed a parachute descending into a rottweiler farm...

alaura1974 · Post by **alaura1974** » March 27, 2008 9:39 pm

ph4ever wrote:
carey24 wrote:"Without a paddle" is the funniest movie I've ever seen. I love it. I totally thought the DB Cooper part was movie fiction!
while on the other hand, I'm old enough to remember when it actually happened

I saw the movie, which is SO funny!!! I loved it!!
Though, I was still in the bushes when it actually happened.

This is an interesting turn of events!!! I cant wait to see what happens!!

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » March 27, 2008 10:24 pm

BTW.. I think he made it..

mermaidindisguise · Post by **mermaidindisguise** » March 28, 2008 12:08 am

carey24 wrote:"Without a paddle" is the funniest movie I've ever seen. I love it. I totally thought the DB Cooper part was movie fiction!

HiLARIOUS!

"Where are we anyway?" - Somewhere between Bum##ck and You got a perty mouth"

"Were you ever a boy scout? - No but I ate a Brownie once"

I had no idea DB Cooper was real either...... go figure

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » March 28, 2008 12:15 am

mermaidindisguise wrote:
carey24 wrote:"Without a paddle" is the funniest movie I've ever seen. I love it. I totally thought the DB Cooper part was movie fiction!
HiLARIOUS!

"Where are we anyway?" - Somewhere between Bum##ck and You got a perty mouth"

"Were you ever a boy scout? - No but I ate a Brownie once"

I had no idea DB Cooper was real either...... go figure

You Kids...

popcornjack · Post by **popcornjack** » March 28, 2008 1:55 am

ragtopW wrote:
mermaidindisguise wrote:
carey24 wrote:"Without a paddle" is the funniest movie I've ever seen. I love it. I totally thought the DB Cooper part was movie fiction!
HiLARIOUS!

"Where are we anyway?" - Somewhere between Bum##ck and You got a perty mouth"

"Were you ever a boy scout? - No but I ate a Brownie once"

I had no idea DB Cooper was real either...... go figure
You Kids...

yeah, it's little things like this that make me feel old.