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Did DB Cooper survive the jump?

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Domesticated Primrose Stag Film
  12/17/25
I'm not a expert on parachutes, but from what I have read, a...
stirring drab kitchen quadroon
  12/17/25
I think the stuff about the cash is pretty dispositive that ...
Domesticated Primrose Stag Film
  12/17/25
How did I never hear this jfc
awkward sooty theatre
  12/17/25
would be hilarious if some hick just found a skeleton hangin...
Metal Place Of Business
  12/17/25
yes, he posts under the moniker evan39
bull headed startling hunting ground
  12/17/25
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passionate therapy
  12/17/25
Absolute peak experience. And, yes, I think he survived. ...
mind-boggling tripping sneaky criminal
  12/17/25
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costumed national
  12/17/25
Former paratrooper here. I'm certain he died on that jump. M...
bateful state
  12/17/25
Re surviving the jump: It was nbd. 5 guys did copycat hija...
mind-boggling tripping sneaky criminal
  12/17/25
He jumped over lake merwin in washington, very thick foreste...
bateful state
  12/17/25


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Date: December 17th, 2025 8:32 AM
Author: Domesticated Primrose Stag Film



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Date: December 17th, 2025 12:40 PM
Author: stirring drab kitchen quadroon

I'm not a expert on parachutes, but from what I have read, a trained Navy Seal paratrooper would have had trouble surviving a jump at night into a forested area during high wind and bad weather. So I'm guessing he probably did not. But crazier things have happened.

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Date: December 17th, 2025 3:53 PM
Author: Domesticated Primrose Stag Film

I think the stuff about the cash is pretty dispositive that he didn’t maek it. Specifically that a kid found $5k of it in the woods years later and none of the other bills ever turned up anywhere in the banking system (FBI recorded the serial number of every bill)

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Date: December 17th, 2025 4:26 PM
Author: awkward sooty theatre

How did I never hear this jfc

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Date: December 17th, 2025 12:46 PM
Author: Metal Place Of Business

would be hilarious if some hick just found a skeleton hanging from a parachute in some trees 20 years later and kept it as a halloween lawn ornament.

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Date: December 17th, 2025 3:54 PM
Author: bull headed startling hunting ground

yes, he posts under the moniker evan39

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Date: December 17th, 2025 3:56 PM
Author: passionate therapy



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Date: December 17th, 2025 4:05 PM
Author: mind-boggling tripping sneaky criminal

Absolute peak experience.

And, yes, I think he survived. They would have found the chute and more of the money if he had not.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811298&forum_id=2"#49517296)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: costumed national



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Date: December 17th, 2025 4:19 PM
Author: bateful state

Former paratrooper here. I'm certain he died on that jump. Money was never spent, some of it recovered. He died that night.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811298&forum_id=2"#49517326)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 4:40 PM
Author: mind-boggling tripping sneaky criminal

Re surviving the jump:

It was nbd. 5 guys did copycat hijackings. All 5 survived their jumps. Guys at my high school, etc.

People act like Cooper jumped over the dark heart of the North Cascades in the winter. It was November. And he jumped over flat farmland near the Oregon border. This store was robbed a few hours after the hijacking: https://maps.app.goo.gl/bSGswm1srpX3NwMy8. The robber took only survival items, such as beef jerky, gloves, and cigarettes (Cooper was chain smoking on the plane).

Re the money:

It's possible that: (a) he dropped the money before or during the jump; (b) he buried the money and didn't come back for it; (c) he spent the money and the FBI just never saw any of it; or (d) he did it for the love of the game, not the money.



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Date: December 17th, 2025 4:51 PM
Author: bateful state

He jumped over lake merwin in washington, very thick forested area

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811298&forum_id=2"#49517422)