"D.B. Cooper"

Wasn’t there an attempted hijacking a couple of years ago where they tried to jump from the back of an A330(?) and died?

I was given a dose of valium prior to a medical procedure. Let’s just say it was very niiiiiiiiiiiiiice! I wanted to take some home. 😀

Excellent, I just need to find a copy now… 😀

There ought to be a movie about this, a great read. :rolleyes:

Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, The (1981)
Directed by
Roger Spottiswood
Writing credits
J.D. Reed (book)
Jeffrey Alan Fiskin

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Plot Summary: A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains…

Cast overview,
Robert Duvall …. Gruen
Treat Williams …. Meade
Kathryn Harrold …. Hannah
Ed Flanders …. Brigadier
Paul Gleason …. Remson
R.G. Armstrong …. Dempsey
Dorothy Fielding …. Denise
Nicolas Coster …. Avery
Cooper Huckabee …. Homer
Howard K. Smith …. Himself
Christopher Curry …. Hippie
Ramon Chavez …. El Capitan
Stacy Newton …. Cowboy
Pat Ast …. Horse lady
Jack Dunlap …. Drinking buddy
(more)

Also Known As:
Pursuit (1981)
Runtime: 100 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Metrocolor)
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: Finland:K-12 / Norway:16 (1982) / USA:PG

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Interesting article.
Thanks for the link. A good read folks..

There ought to be a movie about this, a great read. :rolleyes:

Interesting article.
Thanks for the link. A good read folks..

Here is some more info about the D.B. Cooper incident:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/cooper.htm

Lmao! 😀 😀 😀

You might think Cooper’s cunning plan was original, but you’d be wrong. Dan Cooper was a copycat. 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. Cooper instead relied on the plot of the 1970 movie Airport. He used the threat of a bomb in a briefcase instead.
He was not the last to “pull a D.B. Cooper.” In 1972 alone three hijackers proved that it was possible to survive the jump from a 727 by parachuting out the back. But they were all either captured or shot dead or both (fellow para-jacker Richard Floyd McCoy was captured but escaped and was shot by an FBI agent in 1974). No longer amused, the FAA required 727s to be retrofitted with a mechanical wedge that aerodynamically locks the door from the outside while in flight. The device is nicknamed the “Cooper Vane.” Regulations requiring the scanning of all luggage took effect in 1972 making carrying a bomb on board that much more difficult (though sadly not impossible).
Would You Like Fries With That?
A young man with a flare for the dramatically stupid tried to copy DB Cooper’s act in 1980 on a flight from Sea-Tac airport to – where else? – Portland. He wore aviator sunglasses, said he had a bomb in his briefcase, and demanded $100,000 and two parachutes. The similarities stopped there, however, as the plane never left the taxiway. After the stewardess slipped the would-be copycat a couple of Valiums, he let all the passengers go and reduced his demands to a rental car and three cheeseburgers before giving himself up.

In a Nutshell:

He held an airliner up for ransom. They Landed, he collected the money and took off again. While the 727 was in the air (being shadowed by FBI aircraft who incidently couldn’t keep up with the fast 727) he popped open the aft stairwell and apparently jumped out, never to be seen again.

He was seen preparing a parachute before hand. He ordered all remaining aboard to the front cabin before he jumped.

I’m not familiar with this incident. What happened to him?

I don’t, but here’s some trivia:

After this incident Boeing started installing the so called D.B. Cooper Vane, a latching fitting which aerodynamically prevents the rear airstairs on 727s from being lowered in flight. The aircraft Cooper hijacked was a 727-51 from Northwest Orient Airlines, N467US, sadly scrapped in the 1990s.

Photo of N467US in Portland 1968, from A.net