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Fbi Revives 36 Year Old Case

The FBI released new information it hopes will jog someone's memory and help them determine who the legendary hijacker Dan Cooper (D.B. Cooper), who jumped out of a commercial jetliner wearing two parachutes clutching a bag filled with $200,000 in stolen cash over southwest Washington in 1971, really was.

A man calling himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a commercial plane in Portland bound for Seattle the night of Nov. 24, 1971 and commandeered it, claiming he had dynomite.

In Seattle, Dan Cooper demanded and got $200,000 and four parachutes and demanded to be flown to Mexico. Shortly before reaching the Oregon border near Vancouver, Washington it is believed, he jumped with two of the parachutes, one of which was a trainer and sewn shut.

FBI agents say they are almost certain he did not survive.

Cooper jumped from the plane in heavy wind and rain without having the right equipment and not wearing the right type of clothing for the weather conditions.

Several searches for Cooper's body have been conducted in the southern Washington and northern Oregon wilderness since the 1971 hijacking with no success.

On Monday, the FBI posted photos on their website they say is probably closest to what Cooper looked like.

Several people have claimed to be cooper over the years but were dismissed based on physical descriptions and, later, by DNA evidence recovered in 2001 from a tie the hijacker left on the plane. Within the first five years, agents considered about 800 people as possible suspects.

In 1980, $5,800 of the stolen money, in $20 bills, was found by a boy near the Columbia River. Abundant theories and leads have led nowhere.

The hijacker became known to the public as D.B. Cooper because reports from local news media in the pacific northwest inaccurately reported the hijacker's name as D.B. Cooper the day of the hijacking.

Who was Cooper? Did he survive the jump? The FBI is asking for your help. http://www.fbi.gov/

Debra Loomis

Freelance writer, private investigator and contributor to The Blackwell Brief at http://www.brianblackwell.com/

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