$200,000 is nothing I make that in a week. He would have spent it all in a few years

@@heydani6678 200,000 back is like 1.2 million today tho and damn if u make 200 bands a week I needa come work for you lol

@@heydani6678 That’s 2 HUNDRED THOUSAND dollars, not $200, you wish you made that in a week. Stop capping, kid!

@@suprememagnetic4850 my bad I ment a month

even if he survived the jump i dont think he is alive now he must have 95 year now in 2022 😂😂 THE MAN IS A LEGEND🙏😎😎

Amen. One moment Cooper died, this man with him outside of the plane, then Coooper is alive because he buried a small amount of the money. Just forgot, dead people can bury money, this proves it

+Josh R. Richard McCoy also fits the bill but it is neither of these two people.

+J.R. Goldman I have served in the Military and have extensive jump experience and I have experience of various insertion methods and I would not be so confident in carrying out this jump in the dark with zero reference to the environment. This is all carried out under extreme stress in the middle of a hijacking. Under controlled conditions this jump would be routine for some people but this was anything but a controlled situation. He would not have known what the aircraft's speed was nor would he have understood where he was inserting him self either. What he would have been doing was akin to WW2 para insertions in the dark which had very high causality rates.

U have a good point ...... If he did not have skydiving experience. He could have spiraled out of control ......... I didn't re watch the video so I don't recall why I said what I did................Peace

***** Excellent comments. I guess it's not your area of expertise but do you have any thoughts about the bit of money that was recovered? Do you think the family found the entire honey pot and just turned in a fraction, did it fly out of the satchel in transit? I like to think he survived it. Either way, it's an enduring story that I hope never disappears from the public imagination.

Absolutely spot on tumbling and deploying a chute is no problem well said

The FBI recorded all the bill serial numbers. None of it was ever spent.

@@kerryn6714 so they said they recorded the money

He didn’t. Did you watch the whole video? He probably died. Not a single bill has ever come up in circulation.

Matthew Carbone Go look up Robert Rackstraw. It’s the guy who they think is DB cooper.l, theres a lot of interesting stuff. they say he didn’t’t need the money. He was trying to get back at the military so to get back at the government he stole 200,000, not because he needed it just to get back at them. He had a uncle with the last name cooper, hints Dan Cooper he had a background in parachuting and all. It’s pretty interesting. A former military code breaker broke the codes DB cooper left on the letter he gave to the Flight attendant and it said I’m Robert Rackstraw In it. It said Rackstraws military unit I think it was also and a couple of other information pertaining to him. That’s why the money was never spent he never intended to use it.

money wasn’t spent check david gold youtube page for its supposed burial location

he was trained in unconventional warfare by the US Government. This was his way of getting back at them for kicking him out of the armed forces for conduct unbecoming of an officer.

@@JJM2222 can you prove this

@@JJM2222 right, now identify him?

727

One moment Cooper died, this man with him outside of the plane, then Coooper is alive because he buried a small amount of the money. Just forgot, dead people can bury money, this proves it

Besides, weather reports stated it was raining during the flight......which means, it was cold, but not below freezing.

One moment Cooper died, this man with him outside of the plane, then Coooper is alive because he buried a small amount of the money. Just forgot, dead people can bury money, this proves it

he hasn't attended the public speaking training program

One moment Cooper died, this man with him outside of the plane, then Coooper is alive because he buried a small amount of the money. Just forgot, dead people can bury money, this proves it

No, lol.

That's an interesting theory I never thought of......kudos! However, the bump they felt was probably the rush of outside air entering the plane when he opened up the aft stairwell, which was left open until they landed in Portland. Once the light came on in the cockpit, indicating the opening of the stairwell, the pilots claim they had to re trim the plane's flaps.

There was maintenance area accessed through a panel in the flloor near the cockpit. He could have hidden in there. It is possible. But keep on thing in mind. The bundle found at Tena Bar could not have floated down the river and ended up all together in an area the size of a medium pizza pan. Or smaller.

You could be right . I still think mcoy .

Absolutely yes. This jump technique is know as "squdding:.

@@anonymike8280 who do you think he was ? I still think mcoy.

@@wcraigburns3458 I have no idea. What I do know is that at most only one of the named suspects can be Cooper, which means that just as easily all of them could be not Cooper. It was not McCoy however. You have to account for all known evidence and all of the profile points. If someone fails on one of them, they are not Cooper. Too young, no previous knowledge of the plane, coloring too light, lack of manner and language capabilities, too tall, too short, too large a build, it's not Cooper.

@@anonymike8280 thank you . I will have think about that . I do agree with you .

Excellent response. my thoughts exactly. I think he jumped out much later than they think too. I would bet money his jump point was the Columbia River and he had a very strong knowledge of the geography surrounding the river. He knew exactly where he was. The fact they were flying over Portland probably greatly excited him. Probably the worst thing they could have done.

I agree.

@@nancydenton7496 he didn't jump "into" 200 mph winds. The plane was going 200 mph, it was cold but not cold enough for snow, as records state it was raining. He knew exactly what kind of plane to jump out of. That 727 was the ONLY commercial airplane that had an aft stairwell in it. Cooper also was the one that instructed the pilots how fast to fly, how low to fly, and the flaps' position. He was definitely trained in aeronautics because of his extensive knowledge of this particular plane and all things plane related. Maybe the extra weight was for him to land quicker because of a certain jump off point, where he had to get to the ground as quickly as possible. The woods, and surrounding area were searched the very next day and for weeks afterwards with no body or parachute recovery........hmmmmm? Sounds like he did his research and pulled off the crime of the century to me. Maybe he didn't need a winter coat or hiking boots because maybe he had a partner that knew exactly where to pick him up at? Most evidence have pointed to the fact that he was more than likely a Military person, and if that is true, then he also had survival training.....for this very kind of survival. To claim what you are claiming, because you can't see the logistics of him surviving, is very close minded.

It’s likely he staged a getaway vehicle at the location. He planned so much, flawlessly. Why stop at the end? Maybe he jumped on a bike, drove into Mexico and was set.

@@MrMajikman1 . Okay (some of) that makes sense......but YOUR obvious need to belittle others makes YOU seem like the close minded one....or at the very least, lacking ANY class.... And since you seem to feel you know more than the rest of us, why then did the fragments of 5-6 grand of his money end up being found later (and that's just the money _they found_ ......the rest of it could very well still be scattered all over that VAST wilderness)? Which also brings up another question......since they obviously had the serial numbers of the money they gave him, did any of those serial numbers ever end up being found (i.e, spent) anywhere else ?? I'd have to believe that if they didn't ever find that any of it was ever spent ANYWHERE, that that's a pretty good indicator he didn't survive.....or at the very least, didn't survive WITH the money.... .

One moment Cooper died, this man with him outside of the plane, then Coooper is alive because he buried a small amount of the money. Just forgot, dead people can bury money, this proves it

Yes he made it for a fact ! It was robert rackstraw . had lots of experience sky diving. And made multiple big purchases after it happened . so it had to be him he's a smooth criminal

@@calvinmorris1483 Joe Lakich.

His bones were just never found where he died at it was not searched this is just my opinion I don't think he survived he landed in a place where it was not looked at once again just my theory

The bomb is just as likely to be real as not. Why go to the trouble of designing such a sophisticated device for it to be fake? He could have just stuck two flares in his pocket, pulled them out, and said, I have a bomb and will light the fuse and blow up this plane if you don't give me the money and parachutes. The stewardesses testified that the device was very sophisticated and elaborate, with wires, stripped to bare metal at the ends, routed from the red rusty cylinders to a battery. Cooper also described the way it operated to the stewardess and warned about radio frequencies setting it off. He never swayed from it being a bomb, even after he had the chutes and the money. When he was home free, ready to jump, he never said "hahaha" the bomb was fake. Indeed Tina pleaded with him to "take it with, or disarm it" and he replied he would do just that.

Maybe McCoy was Cooper.

Lmaaaaaao

I did say "uh" way too much. 6 billion times though? That's uh..... that's uh big..... uh you know, uh big uh number! Darn it! Did it again.

Simpsons did it!

probably assigned to multiple cases

+MysteryFan Interesting stuff. I think one of the reason's people have never forgot it, is because of the mystery factor. Although I was still a kid at the time, I remember this was in the news day and night for a while. I even heard updates on the school bus radio on the way to school . To have such a high profile case, and this guy seems to disappear from the face of the earth, never to be seen again. It begs the question of the what the hell happened to him. .

Kenny Christiansen was DB Cooper

But the chute he could not steer, so ramming a tree without even being in a vehicle is 500 times more deadly. Also the money was heavy enough to make the chute unable to work and made the fall 500x23 harder. So even if he would have hit water, he would be in a million pieces. And in a forrest you wouldn't be able to just find a smack of blood. And the fact the apple Iphone from the 70's did not have navigation as good as these days. I know it's dangerous but, if the old guy from back to the future is still alive and in good shape, we find someone that has the guts, could try to go back in time, leave a message or return, we could know the answer. One thing though.. What if the guy that goes back in time, is going to do the Cooper jump? Yeah MysterFan and I,, we are on to someting. Message me.

How do you know he removed it? It was a clip on tie, and most likely blew off once he was out of the plane......

@@MrMajikman1 Blew off and ended up right back in the seat he had been sitting in. Be serious.

That would explain how some of the money got loose and wound up on the bank.

$18.20 for the ticket plus $1.80 fee = $20

Be about $200 in today's money. A new cost cost a few thousand in 1971

+JoeyH547 Well, the only problem with that theory is that the FBI interviewed the pilot, flight attendants, passengers, etc once they landed. I imagine the flight attendants would know who the pilots were, not to mention the airline itself. So, that would be a plausible theory, if they were allowed to skedaddle before the FBI reached them. However, they were not.

+JoeyH547 He would have needed to have been a dead ringer for the pilot and it would require that the other staff were in on it. But I doubt that 200k would have been enough to compensate all of their salaries.

JoeyH547 zodiac still alive last year he killed.

And The money continues to be unaccounted for, To this very day. Gotta be another motive, something else along with the cash.

The flight attendant that D.B. Cooper spoke with during the Hijacking, recalls a conversation of notable interest. At one point, She recalls that idle talk produced a comment of his motive. She mentioned asking him why he was Hijacking the plane, (para phrasing what I remember), Was he angry with Northwest Orient Airlines or a grievance with the company? He replied "Oh, I've got a grievance". Investigators did pursue whether former employee's or workers for NW Orient could be connected to this incident, However no one was ever implicated. This gives reason to believe that Money may not been the main motive.

Every bank in the world had those serial numbers

The stairs never retracted, the plane flew to Portland with the stairs down. The bump they felt is when he opened the stairs and the surge of air pressure entered the cabin. But that is most likely not where he jumped. He probably waited for the pressure to equalize before he jumped.

He ‘washed’ it dumbass

Jacob Marley Ghost Guitar The parachute the agent is handling is one of 4 parachutes Cooper asked for. He left it on the plane. Far as I know they never found a chute on the ground.

I first heard about him in the series Prison Break. Lol. I had heard a little about him prior, but just the name with no story. Prison Break gave a better description of his story.

The problem is that they're not sure who the DNA belongs to.

@@Samo762 they can partial match it and zero in on it. As they have done with the golden state killer

@@anthonycrowley2778 no, what I meant was that they're not sure it comes from DB Cooper because the tie wasn't handled to prevent contamination (forensic DNA didn't exist until the mid-80s), ie. it could've come from any person who handled it along the way... imagine spending all of this time and effort to track down the person using genealogy only to find out the DNA belongs to some FBI agent

@@Samo762 I understand. But it may be. I guess to follow up would be exhaustive

@@Samo762 if the DNA leads to a passenger with an alibis then we would know the DNA wasn't db cooper's

Why ?

D.B. Cooper Hey, can I borrow a $20?

D.B. Cooper Down payment on a good parachute.

It was put there by somebody.

Even Dan Cooper was believed to be a false name, after all, why hijack a plane using your real name?

.......under no circumstances did he use his real name; in those days you could get a ticket and get on a plane without showing any ID information. Dan Cooper was a French language comic book figure and in fact one of the the 1971 series was entitled, "lost in space". There were two printed each year. The guy was probably from Canada, raised in French, and in fact the stewardess did notice his phrase structures, when talking about the ransom and other details, were not typical English, something quite common when speaking a second language, particularly from French to English. Hundreds if not thousands of people for years, searched the area where both the money was found and where they think he jumped; nothing was found. Secondly, nobody reported anyone missing after that date that resembled D.B.Cooper. The money may have been spent, as during those years, there were no computers, it was all by hand, typewriters, no way to trace that money. The money found is more than likely where he landed or in the general area and he then went to the Columbia river to dump his things, parachute etc..... Some money fell during that exercise, it was dark, and it stayed there on the beach where it fell and in time with the wind and sand action, it got buried. It also explains why or how the stacks or bundles of money stayed together in one spot. The discarded parachute and stuff from the jump simply floated away to the ocean within a few short hours; they never looked or searched that area at all, until the money was discovered some 9 years later. He would have then travelled back to Canada and the rest, like they say, is history. Sorry America, your hero is a Canadian!

Shi Womino I don't know. You might want to ask the FBI that. They might have them

It seems like a different guy.DB seemed pretty smart quiet guy that kept a very low profile.Mccoy Didn't seem to be as intelligent as DB.I doubt mccoy is DB

JAC died from AIDS I knew McCoy very well, I think you were not even alive then, so how do you know this? I do not care about what "seems", just the facts.

vonmazur1 yea no doubt, thats like me saying jac died of aids seems like a pretty stupid fella but I know more about him with one comment then he did knew mccoy.lol...just kidding jac, I know what you were trying to say.lol

vonmazur1 i was alive the only stupid fellows are the cops grasping for straws when they should just let it go 40 + years ain't worth it .DB is probably dead now anyways

I think they know it was McCoy, all of their excuses to exonerate him are pretty weak, I think they just want the legend to live on and the guy is already dead. They will never say this is a solved case.

Still waiting