Don’t think we’ve ever had a thread about this. Arguably the most fascinating thing to have ever happened imo.
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Get back involved in this every now and then and it blows my mind once more.
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Very much so.
Wish I could go back and learn about it for the first time all over again.
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What do you think happened to him?
Watched a documentary on it a few months ago, might have been on Netflix, didn’t offer much new.
Still think Mad Men missed a trick by not revealing Don Draper to be DB Cooper.
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DBC does show up as a character in Prison Break 
Drum Bass Cooper
Deid
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aMeRiCaS FiNeSt DeTecTivEs! 
Hair samples
FBI agents found two hair samples in Cooper’s seat - a single strand of limb hair on the seat, and a single strand of brown Caucasian head hair on the headrest.[140] The limb hair was destroyed after the FBI Crime Laboratory determined the sample lacked enough unique microscopic characteristics to be useful.[141] However, the FBI Crime Laboratory determined the head hair was suitable for future comparison, and preserved the hair on a microscope slide.[142] During their attempts to build Cooper’s DNA profile in 2002, the FBI discovered the hair sample had been lost.[143]
Cigarette butts
In the armrest ashtray of seat 18-E, FBI agents found eight Raleigh filter-tipped cigarette butts. These were sent to the FBI Crime Laboratory to search for fingerprints,[144] but investigators were unable to find fingerprints and returned the butts to the Las Vegas field office.[145] In 1998, the FBI sought to extract DNA from the cigarette butts, but discovered the butts had been destroyed while in the custody of the Las Vegas field office
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Yeah my head says this too, but in my heart he made it home, changed the money somehow and lived a nice life.
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Do you reckon it’s actually Steve Cooper
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want to go back to a time when plane hijackings were more of a thing because
- authorities were more willing to negotiate with hijackers, so they were more casual affairs.
- you could easily bring an assault rifle onto the plane.
Interesting that several copycat hijackers all survived, so not impossible they he survived the jump. One of the suspects was a paratrooper too, i think.
I think the best thing about the doc I watched was how it set it all in context, explaining how it was the era of the hijacker.
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A divergence to Cuba was relatively routine, seen almost as a lark. Rataczak recalled in The Mystery of D.B. Cooper, “Everybody on the airplane would get a bottle of rum and a couple of cigars, and got back on the airplane and flew home and thought it was really a fun thing.”
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Sure we’ve had a few DB Cooper threads. Maybe I’m wrong.
Anyway, really love this track
Lived happily ever after with Amelia Earhart and the passengers and crew from MH370
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Couldn’t find any in a search, maybe they simply vanished into the rainy night…
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Average emcees is like a TV blooper/MF DOOM, he’s like
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Was not aware of this before
That’s where I first heard of him