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Looking Back at D. B. Cooper
His mystery endures.
The identity of D. B. Cooper remains one of the most enduring mysteries of the 1970s. That, along with what happened to Chuck Cunningham on “Happy Days.” But for now we will concentrate on the D. B. Cooper thing.
D. B. Cooper was the name given to a man who on November 24, 1971, hijacked a Boeing 727 and demanded a $200,000 ransom to not blow up the plane.
‘Cooper” subsequently bailed out of the plane with the ransom, never to be seen, or at least identified again. Here are some things you might not have known about the D. B. Cooper case.
1: When Cooper initially handed the flight attendant the ransom note, she didn’t read it.
Cooper later told the attendant she needed to look at the note because he had a bomb. Which raises the question, “Do you have to have a bomb to get the flight attendant’s attention?
2: One theory of the case is Cooper didn’t survive his parachute jump.
Cooper reportedly had to deal with 200 mph winds and would have had to land in rough terrain at night. That does sound tough, but I think I may have stumbled onto anew variant of the games show, “Survivor.”
