Posted on 08/03/2011 2:11:18 PM PDT by bigbob
A woman claiming to be the niece of infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper has spoken to ABC News in an exclusive interview about her role in the recently re-ignited 40-year-old cold case that has haunted the FBI for years.
Marla Cooper told ABC News that she has provided the FBI with a guitar strap and a Christmas photo of a man pictured with the same strap who she says is her uncle, Lynn Doyle Cooper.
After clarifying her childhood memories surrounding the incident and more recent conversations with her parents, she is now sure that her uncle is in fact the notorious man who hijacked and threatened to blow up a commercial plane flying to Seattle in 1971, then parachuted to the ground with $200,000 in hand.
"I'm certain he was my uncle, Lynn Doyle Cooper. Who we called L.D. Cooper," she told ABC News.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Sounds like a fascinating mystery may be solved.
How do you jump out of a 600 mph jet at 37,000 feet wearing a business suit and survive? That’s 8000 feet higher than Mount Everest.
Just sit down and quietly eat your peas
Her account certainly sounds credible.
Nah! She couldn't possibly want free publicity for her soon-to-be-released book on the same subject!
She just wants to set the record straight... LOL!
I’m no aviation expert, but I really doubt that the plane would be at altitude 37000. If it was a Seattle to Portland flight the distance is only 170 road miles. I would guess they didn’t get much higher than 17000 and would have been on a descent from that when he bailed, since it would have been less than 30 air miles from Portland.
He had them fly at about 200 mph and below 2500 feet. also, the plane had a door in the ear of the plane he jumped from.
Ear-o-plane?
You mean Dan Cooper (aka D.B. Cooper because of a reporter's mistake) actually used his real last name and the FBI still could not find him? Geez!
Just sit down and quietly eat your peas
He wasn’t at 37,000 ft. The jet was flying below 10,000 ft. And it was going at a much lower speed.
The hijacker then used the flight attendant’s cabin phone to give the cockpit personnel instructions on how and where to fly. He ordered an altitude not to exceed 10,000 feet, with wing flaps set at 15 degrees and airspeed of no more than 150 knots. Cooper warned the pilot he was wearing a wrist altimeter to monitor the altitude.
Larger jets could not have maintained such a low airspeed. But Cooper obviously knew that the lightweight 727 (just 50 tons without fuel) could fly as slowly as 80 knots in the dense air at 10,000 feet. Even with a full load of fuel the jet would have no problem maintaining a speed of 100 knots.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/scams/DB_Cooper/5.html
He actually jumped from the tail of the plane.
I'm with you though, I'd have jumped out of the plane's ear before I would have jumped out of the plane's tail-hole. Ewww!
He stole $200,000......and they have spent how much on the investigation?!
How long till Obama takes credit for this?
“I ordered the FBI to solve the mystery; I said why don’t you find some relative like a niece, they’ve got to still be around.”
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