He couldn’t hang to the $$ and dropped it during free fall. He did it better 5 months later the 2nd time and saved all that $500,000.
I kinda' see him more as a Unabomber protegé
You should watch the video...FBI was like 30 miles off searching from where he landed. Easy jump and many have duplicated it included in the video. $$$ landed in the river, he jumped where he did because its all flat terrain where he landed. Really should watch it, he survived and did the same thing again 5 months later becasue he couldn't hang onto the money, he was furious when the $$$ showed up and not in a knapsack like he had asked and tried making a bag, the skydiver in the video couldn't;t hang on to a bag of $$$ and deploy his chute, had to let it go. He learned from all his mistakes and for the next high jacking 5 months later.Even though I'm an old geezer, I'm still too young.
I've seen & done some crap, but pulling this off at 10 years old isn't likely
I get caught every time I exceed the speed limit by 10 mph, or forget my seatbelt, so my criminal career is pretty much non-existent.
I've not really studied the D.B. Dan Cooper thing, but the specific request on parachutes always struck me as odd.
(If he actually did request a specific parachute, I wasn't exactly an investigator at the scene, or anyplace else)
Like maybe that was the specific parachute he was trained on in some skydiving class?
Not exactly an original idea, but one that rang true with me when I read about it.
I froze my butt off out there in mountaineering/survival school, where D.B. Coopers remains were the urban legend,
And I had all the correct gear, including a parka, not a light weight business suit.
When someone says he had a vehicle waiting...
Have they even seen a topographical map of the area?
Roads are few & far between, trees/terrain would block even vehicle lights from the air, how would you drop on something you couldn't see?
The British troops had a saying,
"Death has three children, hungry, cold & wet, and they will find you."
We were properly supplied, supported, equipped & trained, and it was MISERABLE...
I have to vote compost, bear crap, bones at the bottom of a lake or river...
Not good to be asking "how to use a parachute?" while in the middle of a high jacking.....lol.Anyone remember the hijacker that copied D.B. Cooper and landed near Peru, Indiana in 1972?
Hijacker Jumps With $502,500 Ransom (Published 1972)
I Honigsberg lr maintains passengers' refusal to fly on aircraft that has not been thoroughly searched may be effective way of halting hijackingwww.nytimes.com
June 23, 1972: In the 9th copycat D.B. Cooper-style hijacking Martin J. McNally under the pseudonym of Robert W. Wilson hijacked American Airlines Flight 119, a Boeing 727 bound from St. Louis to Tulsa and demanded $502,500. The plane flew back and forth between Tulsa and St. Louis while the loot was raised. In St. Louis, live news reports about the hijacking prompted David J. Hanley, a 30-year-old businessman, to crash his 1972 Cadillac at 80 mph through two airport fences, travel down the runway at high speed and crash into the nosegear of the plane, which was beginning to taxi. The demolished car lodged under the fuselage and one wing. Hanley suffered multiple injuries and was charged with willfully damaging a civil aircraft. The hijacker transferred to a new 727 and jumped out of the plane over Indiana. The full loot bag and gun were discovered by searchers near Peru, Indiana. Fingerprints led to McNally. While in Marion Federal Prison McNally and fellow inmate and hijacker Garrett Trapnell (see January 28, 1972 above) were involved in an attempted prison escape on May 24, 1978, after Trapnell's girlfriend hijacked a helicopter. The escape attempt ended when the helicopter pilot grabbed the woman's gun and killed her. McNally was paroled from prison January 27, 2010.
List of aircraft hijackings - Wikipedia
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Can you imagine trying to take your own parachute onto a plane as your carry on?
My older brother just told he remembers when that happened. The Peru Police Chief saw the guy hitch hiking and gave him a lift ! Dropped him off….. it wasn’t good when they found what had happened! LOL!!!Anyone remember the hijacker that copied D.B. Cooper and landed near Peru, Indiana in 1972?
Hijacker Jumps With $502,500 Ransom (Published 1972)
I Honigsberg lr maintains passengers' refusal to fly on aircraft that has not been thoroughly searched may be effective way of halting hijacking
June 23, 1972: In the 9th copycat D.B. Cooper-style hijacking Martin J. McNally under the pseudonym of Robert W. Wilson hijacked American Airlines Flight 119, a Boeing 727 bound from St. Louis to Tulsa and demanded $502,500. The plane flew back and forth between Tulsa and St. Louis while the loot was raised. In St. Louis, live news reports about the hijacking prompted David J. Hanley, a 30-year-old businessman, to crash his 1972 Cadillac at 80 mph through two airport fences, travel down the runway at high speed and crash into the nosegear of the plane, which was beginning to taxi. The demolished car lodged under the fuselage and one wing. Hanley suffered multiple injuries and was charged with willfully damaging a civil aircraft. The hijacker transferred to a new 727 and jumped out of the plane over Indiana. The full loot bag and gun were discovered by searchers near Peru, Indiana. Fingerprints led to McNally. While in Marion Federal Prison McNally and fellow inmate and hijacker Garrett Trapnell (see January 28, 1972 below) were involved in an attempted prison escape on May 24, 1978, after Trapnell's girlfriend hijacked a helicopter. The escape attempt ended when the helicopter pilot grabbed the woman's gun and killed her. McNally was paroled from prison January 27, 2010.
List of aircraft hijackings - Wikipedia
