DB Cooper's Parachute Found?

[FrankTheTank]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080326/ap_on_re_us/db_cooper_3

 

[HeyJoe]

Who cares about the parachute...where's the loot?

 

[FLYTPAY]

Who cares about the parachute...where's the loot?

Good thing they didn't have online poker back then....the fact that a family found some of the money throws a huge twist into the whole thing.

 

[E.T. VF-24 PR]

Who cares about the parachute...where's the loot?

DB wasn't sure what to do with it so on a lark he used all his loot to buy stock in something goofy called Microsoft.

 

[A4sForever]

I, for one, hope DB made it.

 

[Ralph]

I, for one, hope DB made it.

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[Rubiks06]

hes probably sitting on a beach somewhere sipping a pina colada and laughing his ass off.

 

[Tex_Hill]

hes probably sitting on a beach somewhere sipping a pina colada and laughing his ass off.

Perhaps our very own A4s' is in fact DB Cooper?

Now what did I do with that number to the FBI???

 

[scoober78]

I, for one, hope DB made it.

Seriously. You got the stones and skill and sheer blind luck to pull that $%^& off, you deserve the remainder of your days in a non-extradition country sipping umbrella drinks.

 

[p1brule]

I would love to see him come forward one day and tell everyone how he made it out. Hollywood can't come up with stories like this. Their creative energies are strictly reserved for masterpieces such as "Stop Loss".

 

[NavAir42]

I grew up in the area he jumped. My money is that he didn't make it. It would be one hell of a story if he did. Better than a movie. Way better than a movie.

 

[HuggyU2]

A4s,
On the 727, what do they call that airstream-activated lock that prevents the rear door from opening in flight? Isn't there a nickname like the "DB lock" or "Cooper lock"? That doesn't sound right, but I remember there was some name for it.

 

[Tex_Hill]

A4s,
On the 727, what do they call that airstream-activated lock that prevents the rear door from opening in flight? Isn't there a nickname like the "DB lock" or "Cooper lock"? That doesn't sound right, but I remember there was some name for it.

The "Cooper vane". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper#Effect_on_the_airline_industry

Google is your friend.

 

[Catmando]

A4s,
On the 727, what do they call that airstream-activated lock that prevents the rear door from opening in flight? Isn't there a nickname like the "DB lock" or "Cooper lock"? That doesn't sound right, but I remember there was some name for it.

A4s is probably squeezing limes, so I'll launch as the spare…

It was called any number of names. We called it the "Cooper Switch" but it was also called the "DB Switch" and also the "Cooper Vane."
It was just a small (4-inch?) windvane on the aft fuselage that locked out the aft airstairs inflight.

There was a bad movie made about the incident - "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" with Robert Duvall that used a B-727 where I worked at the time ( a major league baseball team). The studio wanted us to disconnect the Cooper Switch and have a stuntman re-enact Cooper's diving out of the airstairs in flight. Our chief pilot – a retired AF Col. and also a retired FAA inspector told the studio to pound sand! So they had to fake it in the movie.

Also had lunch with DB (not his real initials) and A4s in Nicaragua last month……… guess who got stuck with the check......:icon_rage

 

[JIMC5499]

History channel had a show on about DB Cooper the other night. Some guy claimed to be Cooper right before he died. Said that he buried the money and then couldn't find it again. They used facial recognition software set to the features in the composit sketch that they had and it picked out this guy's picture.