Legend of D. B. Cooper, Vancouver, Washington
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The most famous aircraft hijackers-for-cash was never known as D. B. Cooper except to the public. It was as Dan Cooper that he purchased his plane ticket. And it is as Dan Cooper that the FBI is still looking for him.
Waymark Code: WM52N0
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 11/01/2008
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The most famous aircraft hijackers-for-cash was never known as D. B. Cooper except to the public.
A man in his mid-forties, wearing a black raincoat, loafers, dark suit, neatly pressed white collared shirt, black necktie, black sunglasses and mother-of-pearl tie pin, used the name Dan Cooper when he purchased his plane ticket. He boarded Boeing 727-100 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 at Portland International Airport (PDX) enroute to Sea/Tac Airport (SEA) where he took over the jet and demanded and got four parachutes—two main back chutes and two emergency chest chutes—and $200,000 in unmarked $20 bills.
Cooper parachuted from the rear of the un-pressurized plane somewhere over Washington State, possibly Woodland, Washington or 20 miles east of there, taking the cash with him. He jumped about 8:15pm on a stormy night into freezing rain and dark unknown territory with high, rugged mountains, tall Douglas firs and numerous lakes, steams and rivers. Despite exhaustive searches, Cooper's body was never found and his whereabouts are unknown; the FBI believes he did not survive the jump.
The D. B. Cooper misapprehension arose because there really was a D. B. Cooper. However the real D. B. Cooper was in jail at the time of the hijacking and thus was eliminated as a suspect.
It was likely that the hijacker used his real name. But D. B. Cooper was never the name under which he flew; rather it was as Dan Cooper that he purchased his plane ticket. And it is as Dan Cooper that the FBI is still looking for him.
On February 10, 1980, eight-year-old Brian Ingram was digging in the sand at Tina Bar on the bank of the Columbia River about 9 1/2 miles NW of Vancouver, Washington. He dug up three bundles of deteriorating $20 bills totaling approximately $5,800 of Cooper's money. The bills matched the serial numbers that the FBI had recorded. The FBI searched 150 feet of the bank inch by inch but only bits and pieces of money were found.
Legend has it that the money was found at Frenchman’s Bar about a mile and half south however the money was found at Tina Bar according to the owner of the property who helped the FBI search for the money.
Instructions for logging waymark: A photograph is required of you (or your GPS receiver, if you are waymarking solo) at Fazio Bros. sign, 12112 NW Lower River Road about 9 1/2 miles NW of Vancouver. I was given permission to visit Tina Bar in order to get coordinates and photos. Public access to Tina Bar is no longer allowed.
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