The Legend of D.B. Copper
On November 24, 1971 a man going by the name of Dan Cooper purchased an airline ticket from the ticket counter of the Northwest Orient Airlines in Portland Oregon. Dan Cooper paid cash for a one-way ticket from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington. Dan Cooper boarded a Boeing 727 carrying 37 passengers and 5 crewmembers. What followed is a series of events that has left law enforcement agencies and amateur sleuths alike dumfounded for well over 40 years. Who is the D.B. Cooper?
Dan Cooper, now famously known as D.B. Cooper due to a mix up by the media in the early days of the investigation, was the embodiment of nondescript being about 45 years old, standing around 6 feet tall and weighing in at approximately 175 pounds. D.B. Cooper was wearing a typical business suit and Homburg style hat, which was typical for males in the early 1970’s. He had brown eyes short brown hair and wore no facial hair. D.B. Cooper was a white man and spoke with no discernable accent. No passenger or crewmember took particular note of D.B. Cooper before boarding the airliner.
Shortly after takeoff D.B. Cooper handed Flo Schaffner, a flight attendant with less than 2 years of flying experience, a note. Schaffner immediately stuffed the note in the pocket of her uniform incorrectly assuming it was a come-on from Cooper a room number to his Seattle hotel or his telephone number. Noticing this Cooper later told her, “You’d better read that. I have a bomb” Cooper then gestured toward the briefcase he was carrying on his lap. Schaffner soon share the note with fellow flight attendant Tina Mucklow. The pair showed the note to the cockpit Capt. William Scott, First Officer Bob Rataczak, and Flight Engineer H.E. Anderson. Captain...
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...s arrested for highjacking a commercial airliner on April 9, 1972 using techniques very similar to the Cooper highjacking. It is also claimed that McCoy once owned a mother of pearl tie clasp similar to the one found onboard by investigators onboard the airplane. The FBI does not consider McCoy a suspect in the Cooper highjacking due to the significant age difference between what witness estimated as Cooper’s age and McCoy’s actual age at the time of the crime.
While D.B. Cooper left behind few clues to his actual identity, this has not prevented law enforcement and amateur detectives alike from pouring over them in in an attempt to uncover the infamous D.B. Cooper. Cooper’s identity will likely never be definitively determined although several men have proclaimed and some proposed to be Cooper none of these men have been linked by physical evidence.
In "F-16 Pilot Was Ready to Give Her Life on Sept. 11" written by Steve Hendrix the author writes about a pilot named Penney. She is nearly the first female pilot. Penney started off ready to pursue her career in teaching but, then changed to follow in her father's footsteps. Her father was a fighter pilot and she intended to do the same. The story takes a very unfortunate turn of events, when it talks about how Penney was having to do a suicide mission on September 11th. She had a mission to bring down airline flight 93. At the time there was no ammunition or missiles in her aircraft so it was a suicide mission she was willing to go on. Although, she ended up not having to do the mission in the end she was willing to give up her life.
“Baby Face” Nelson’s shredded body was discovered today, lying naked in a ditch near Niles, Illinois, after a deadly encounter with 2 FBI agents yesterday, November 27,1934. The FBI agents, Sam Cowley and Herman Hollis, were also tragically killed in the crossfire.
The murder of JonBenet Ramsey has become one of the nation's notorious unsolved murder mysteries. A wide range of crime scene investigators and police officials have searched for clues for JonBenet's killer, but countless authorities have already considered this murder to be one of the most inexplicable cold-cases in America. As the world marks the twenty first year anniversary of the tragic event with still no standing suspects, an abundance of evidence proven through research points to one suspect in particular.
Embar-Seddon, A., & Pass, A. D. (2009). World Trade Center Bombing. In Forensic science (3rd ed., pp. 1028-1031). Pasadena, California: Salem Press.
The Process of Identification The eyewitness in this article, Mr. Gauci, was first questioned on 1 September 1989, about 9 months after the purchase, and was shown the clothing that was in the suitcase with the explosive in the plane. The shopkeeper recognized the pattern of the clothing and remembered there had been a man who came into the store sometime in the winter of 1988 and bought several pieces of clothing. He described the event and said that after the man was done shopping, he went out and opened an umbrella because it had been raining and then the shopper and the man took the things out to a taxi. Mr. Gauci mentioned how the man was about 6ft tall or more and spoke Libyan.
The murder of JonBenet Ramsey has become one of the nation's notorious unsolved murder mysteries. A wide range of crime scene investigators and police officials have searched for clues for JonBenet's killer, but countless authorities have already considered this murder to be one of the most inexplicable cold-cases in America. As the world marks the twenty first year anniversary of the tragic event with still no standing suspects, an abundance of evidence proven through research points to one suspect in particular.
Retrieved April 26, 2010, from http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/debunking-911-myths-planes. The Top September 11 Conspiracy Theories. n.d. - n.d. - n.d. America - Engaging the World - America.gov. Retrieved April 26, 2010, from http://www.america.gov/st/webchat-english/2009/. Facts about the attacks on the World Trade Center, WTC, on 911 - September 11, 2001.
For instance, the multiple calls made to family members as well as 911 from the frantic passengers. Mark Bingham for instance called 911, as well as his mom telling her he loved her and that the plane was being hijacked. Another man called 911 screaming that they were being hijacked and that he heard some sort of explosion and saw white smoke coming from the plane. Then there was Tom Burnett, who called his wife saying the hijackers had already stabbed to death one passenger and that he intended to do something about it. A Jeremy Glick called his relatives saying the same, that he and some other passengers were intending to fight the hijackers. These calls brought up the thought that perhaps some passengers on board had fought the hijackers, keeping them from controlling the plane, and sending it crashing to the ground.
...piracies that have been debunked over the years, there is no denying that there are many flaws in the initial investigation. Until the flaws can either be explained or fixed there will always be a chance that what was said to be true is not.
Not only did he have many hours flying a 747, he received a flight safety award from the company president, three months prior to the crash. He also earned two excellent evaluations in the simulator proficiency checks and passed the company’s mandatory Level three English test. In addition, the captain along with his first officer watched a video presentation based on the familiarization of the Guam Airport and studied approach charts several hours before the accident. (Krause, 2003) The first officer had also served in the Korean Air Force before joining the ranks with Korean Air in 1994.
This man had been accused for something he had never done. “In the early morning of May 4, 1992 the 3 year old of Kennedy Brewer’s girlfriend was abducted from her Mississippi home, raped and murdered.Her body was found two days later in a creek about 500 yards from the home.Kennedy Brewer immediately became a suspect.” (“Exonerating the Innocent") This is significant , because even though the suspect looked guilty further evidence proved his innocence. He ended up spending many years in prison for something he didn't
If I had a dollar for every time Ralph Himmelsbach has been mentioned in my research, I would be a billionaire. By far, Ralph Himmelsbach is the most knowledgeable person on the D.B. Cooper subject in history, and his brain is a great resource to investigators. He has been involved in the Cooper case since day one, and, despite retiring, shows no signs of stopping his search for D.B. Cooper. So, when the wisest man on the subject says Kenny Christiansen is not D.B. Cooper, that means he is not D.B. Cooper Kenneth Christiansen, as the quote mentioned, was suspected of the hijacking post-mortem by his own brother. They were both left-handed, ond of bourbon, and heavy smokers; but these descriptions are not rare by any standards. Besides the
At least one legendary unsolved serial case may already be on its way to answer. There are many others with available DNA evidence that’s never matched any existing DNA profiles in law enforcement databases. Leaving aside the huge questions about privacy regarding this kind of investigation for a moment, read about a sampling cold cases—some famous, others obscure—ripe for genealogical investigation below.
On November 24, 1971 D.B. Cooper was made famous for his crime of hijacking a plane. D.B. Cooper was never found and so never arrested either. Many people are still working on the case today! Some people try to do similar acts like D.B. Cooper.
This letter has been written regarding the inclusion of another key scene in our upcoming novel, Catch-22. I want to include Yossarian’s bomber as a setting as it allows the story to examine the themes of war. Most of the novel is a satire of American bureaucracy during the Second World War, but I still need to have a serious tone when writing about such a sensitive topic. Many of the scenes on board the bomber are also derived from my experiences as a bombardier in the American Army Air Forces in World War Two. By witnessing the death and injuries of my comrades, I have seen just how weak humanity is, and how futile and terrible war can be. The inclusion of the bomber scene is vital in allowing me to describe my experiences and