D.B. Cooper in the news again.

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On tonights news I caught the tail end of a story about D.B. Cooper. Apparently the FBI has some sort of a new lead.

Anyone know anything about this?

John
 
The only thing I know about D.B. Cooper came from the movie "Without a Paddle"
 
Other than the FBI being involved, I could glean absolutely nothing from that article. They may, or may not, be examining something from a person who may, or may not, have or not have had something to do with the DB Cooper case.

That being said, it would really be cool if they caught him after all this time.
 
last week there was a guy in Utah (I think) who had been in the county jail for a couple of weeks and would give absolutely no info as to his identity. He was guesstimated to be in his early 70's. Maybe that's him
 
tonycondon said:
last week there was a guy in Utah (I think) who had been in the county jail for a couple of weeks and would give absolutely no info as to his identity. He was guesstimated to be in his early 70's. Maybe that's him
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His brother id'd him. He was from new Mexico or something.
 
flyersfan31 said:
That being said, it would really be cool if they caught him after all this time.
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It would be interesting to find out who he really is and read his story.

Then let him go free and keep the cash if he still has it. $200,000 is petty cash nowadays. You can't even buy a house or airplane for that anymore.
 
fgcason said:
It would be interesting to find out who he really is and read his story.

Then let him go free and keep the cash if he still has it. $200,000 is petty cash nowadays. You can't even buy a house or airplane for that anymore.
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It was probably Cowboy Pilot.
 
Surely the statute of limitations has run out by now.

Oh, but there is probably a tax issue that overrides that, huh.
 
From the composite drawing on the left I've cracked the case. It's Dale Gribble!
 
fgcason said:
It would be interesting to find out who he really is and read his story.

Then let him go free and keep the cash if he still has it. $200,000 is petty cash nowadays. You can't even buy a house or airplane for that anymore.
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You can easily buy both a house AND an airplane with $200,000.
 
One article says they have figured out a way to bypass the statue of limitations by indicting him, or was it charging him with the crime. So if he ever appears they can continue prosecution.
He is no better than the barefoot bandit imo. Not worthy of the public's interest or a book/movie deal.
We need to do a better job of teaching folks right from wrong. Stealing, hijacking planes = bad, deserving of ostracism and jail time, not fame or adulation.
 
Go D.B. . . Go D.B. . . . Go D.B. . . . :happydance:
 
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Thank you, DB for embarrassing the FBI. Its one of the reasons TSA is so demanding on ID checks now.

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The current story is that the person they're checking out now has been dead for 10 years, so this would just be closure.
 
Sac Arrow said:
Not in my area.
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Okay, how 'bout: "You can easily buy a house, an airplane, and hire some movers for $200,000."

My plane plus my house cost way less than $200,000.

My plane plus my house plus my car plus all my contents probably cost little over $200,000.
 
Sac Arrow said:
Oh, but there is probably a tax issue that overrides that, huh.
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There's a statute of limitations on the tax issue as well, however the gubmint may claim that continuing to hide from them constitutes an affirmative act furthering the evasion.
 
You know something? I never knew there was a real DB Cooper. When I saw the headlines I thought "cool! they are doing another prequel to Prison Break?"
 
Anyone got photos of the "anti D.B. Cooper device" on the 727? I saw plenty of them on the ramp as a ramp rat at Stapleton years ago, but haven't ever seen photos of them.

Just a little spring loaded flapper thing that blocked the rear air-stair from being deployed in-flight because the air would push the spring and twist this little gadget into the way...

Bet lots of folks don't know those are on most 727s.

Always liked hooking the 72 up to a tug. You had to disconnect the big steering rod from the nosegear so it'd free-caster, and then if you (or another tug driver) didn't have enough room to get the nose-wheel straight, you had to reach up into the wheel well and pull on the appropriate rudder cable to make the hydros move the bar and line it up with whatever angle the wheels were at so you could drop the bar back in. I just thought it was ultra-cool to reach up there and grab the rudder cable to do that, back then.

Nothing like quick-turning a Long Beach Death Tube (MD-80) though... those pits were short, and remembering nights where us three guys were tossing bags as fast as we could run the belt-loader, my back still hurts thinking about it. The senior guys working the containerized aircraft had it easy.

For added fun points, do it on a ramp covered in glycol deicing fluid in rubber boots. Or up in the belly tossing glycol smeared/covered bags. Ugh.

I'd say I don't miss it, but I kinda do... ;)
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
One article says they have figured out a way to bypass the statue of limitations by indicting him, or was it charging him with the crime. So if he ever appears they can continue prosecution.
He is no better than the barefoot bandit imo. Not worthy of the public's interest or a book/movie deal.
We need to do a better job of teaching folks right from wrong. Stealing, hijacking planes = bad, deserving of ostracism and jail time, not fame or adulation.
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This would be a valid point if it were not that just about all Americans love an outlaw who can pull it off. We idolize them in the movies and on T.V. We buy up all the books on the subject.

We automatically consider the criminal who gets caught as being stupid, but not so the one who gets away with it.

Perhaps it is one of our basic fantasies, like winning the lottery, of being able to pull off a great heist and getting away with it.

D.B. Cooper is right up there with Bonnie & Clyde, Al Capone, Jessie James, Billy the Kid, John Gottie, and most all of our politicians.

San Diego now has it's own famous outlaw, The Geezer bandit.

When one of these daring, gutsy people do get caught, or meet their end at the hands of our law enforcement officials, it is not met with jubilation, but more with disappointment. We wanted them to get away with it.

They get caught, now they're nothing more than a stupid crook, who was too stupid to outwit even the FBI.

This is what keeps most of us honest, we do not want our legacy to be that of a stupid crook.

But the ones who do get away, oh how we love em, always have. It's the American way. We love an underdog who puts his wits up against the huge government machine and successfully pulls it off.

Of course we do not publicly admit that though.

John
 
John Baker said:
But the ones who do get away, oh how we love em, always have. It's the American way. We love an underdog who puts his wits up against the huge government machine and successfully pulls it off.
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Of course we do. It's in our heritage. We started this country by stealing an entire continent from the British empire and getting away with it.
 
PittsDriver said:
Not anywhere you'd want to live if you had the choice.
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Easily accomplished in Nebraska and much of the midwest. I paid $120 for my house. You can find plenty of nice houses for less.

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Heck there was a town in Western Nebraska that was giving away the land and 10 years of taxes to anyone who'd come in and build in a really nice area where the water, power, sewer, and roads in a nice area of the town were done and then the developer hit hard times and the houses never got built.

If I were closer to retirement age, it was a screamin' deal. As long as you could get high-speed Internet a whole lot of "office" jobs could be done from home in some very affordable areas of the country, too. If only companies didn't have a love affair with office building real-estate and face to face (usually mostly worthless) meetings. And videoconferencing can handle most of that...
 
PittsDriver said:
Not anywhere you'd want to live if you had the choice.
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Spoken like a true "coaster" (as in east or west, as opposed to middle America).

We all make choices in life. I choose to live where I can have a nice job, live in a nice house, and fly a nice plane. I'm pretty happy with my choices.
 
Mtns2Skies said:
Jesse, you just proved the point. Who WANTS to live in Nebraska and much of the midwest? :confused::rolleyes:
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Stable economy...Affordable living...All seasons...Good hard working people.

I've been all over the country. I've never felt a desire to move out of the midwest.
 
Heard today that Lincoln, NE only has 4.3% unemployment in this "terrible" economy. Y'all must be doing something right up there. ;)
 
denverpilot said:
Heard today that Lincoln, NE only has 4.3% unemployment in this "terrible" economy. Y'all must be doing something right up there. ;)
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Not a lot of people getting rich - but not a lot of people starving either. Fairly self sustaining city with a lot of service jobs.

Crime is low too. Just finished a 3 mile jog all post-midnight without a concern at all.
 
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Jim_R said:
Spoken like a true "coaster" (as in east or west, as opposed to middle America).

We all make choices in life. I choose to live where I can have a nice job, live in a nice house, and fly a nice plane. I'm pretty happy with my choices.
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And fly direct, in almost any direction... The closest I'd want to become to being a "coaster" would be in the PNW. My parents came from the East coast. They were smart - They left. ;)

The amount of money it takes to buy an 800 square foot home on a 1400 square foot lot near my brother (Santa Clara, CA) would buy a mansion in many other parts of the country.
 
jesse said:
Stable economy...Affordable living...All seasons...Good hard working people.

I've been all over the country. I've never felt a desire to move out of the midwest.
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I also have lived all over, East, west , south Midwest(for the six most miserable yrs of my life),& California. And I have no desire to ever return, even to visit. Not any of them. I like my 40 to 80 degree yr round NW Sure it rains, That is why the trees grow and I am not stuck in a wind blown prairie. Fact is it doesn't 'rain' like it does other places, we might get showers & clouds all day and still not a tenth of an inch. It rains more in a hour in Kansas than all cloudy week here. Truth is I get a lot more sun that we let on and I get to Fly in low density altitudes all the time. You should see a 150 climb out when it thinks it is 3000' below sea-level. The under-cast is almost always 2,500 to 3,000 AGL or more. I flew 9 hours in Dec and 7 in July. I am poor , I can't afford more most months. March is the worst month for flying here for me. Dave
 
Ddayle said:
I also have lived all over, East, west , south Midwest(for the six most miserable yrs of my life),& California.
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Where did you live in the Midwest?

And I have no desire to ever return, even to visit. Not any of them. I like my 40 to 80 degree yr round NW
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I do like the northwest...

Truth is I get a lot more sun that we let on and I get to Fly in low density altitudes all the time. You should see a 150 climb out when it thinks it is 3000' below sea-level.
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... But how is it that your 150 thinks it's 3000' below sea level if you never get below 40º? :dunno: It'd need to get down to 15ºF at sea level for DA to be -3000.
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Where did you live in the Midwest?



I do like the northwest...



... But how is it that your 150 thinks it's 3000' below sea level if you never get below 40º? :dunno: It'd need to get down to 15ºF at sea level for DA to be -3000.
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A. O'Fallon Ill. Junction City Kan, Burlington Ka.
B.Me too C.Ok it occasionally gets to freezing in a cold Dec morning With High Air pressure 30.9 zero degrees gets -3000
 
Ddayle said:
A. O'Fallon Ill. Junction City Kan, Burlington Ka.
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Please don't judge the entire midwest by the flatlands. :vomit:

C.Ok it occasionally gets to freezing in a cold Dec morning With High Air pressure 30.9 zero degrees gets -3000
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Yeah, but we get that all the time in the winter, where you only get it occasionally. ;)
 
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