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Did DB Cooper survive the jump?

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Curious Dull Stage
  12/17/25
I'm not a expert on parachutes, but from what I have read, a...
Ruddy costumed affirmative action hissy fit
  12/17/25
I think the stuff about the cash is pretty dispositive that ...
Curious Dull Stage
  12/17/25
How did I never hear this jfc
Supple Native Ape
  12/17/25
would be hilarious if some hick just found a skeleton hangin...
saffron low-t heaven boiling water
  12/17/25
yes, he posts under the moniker evan39
walnut metal shrine feces
  12/17/25
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Brindle cruel-hearted dysfunction chapel
  12/17/25
Absolute peak experience. And, yes, I think he survived. ...
hateful cruise ship
  12/17/25
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Startled ultramarine parlour
  12/17/25
Former paratrooper here. I'm certain he died on that jump. M...
Fantasy-prone nowag
  12/17/25
Re surviving the jump: It was nbd. 5 guys did copycat hija...
hateful cruise ship
  12/17/25
He jumped over lake merwin in washington, very thick foreste...
Fantasy-prone nowag
  12/17/25


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Date: December 17th, 2025 8:32 AM
Author: Curious Dull Stage



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Date: December 17th, 2025 12:40 PM
Author: Ruddy costumed affirmative action hissy fit

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: Curious Dull Stage

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: Supple Native Ape

How did I never hear this jfc

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Date: December 17th, 2025 12:46 PM
Author: saffron low-t heaven boiling water

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: walnut metal shrine feces

yes, he posts under the moniker evan39

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Date: December 17th, 2025 3:56 PM
Author: Brindle cruel-hearted dysfunction chapel



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Date: December 17th, 2025 4:05 PM
Author: hateful cruise ship

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: Startled ultramarine parlour



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Date: December 17th, 2025 4:19 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone nowag

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

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Date: December 17th, 2025 4:40 PM
Author: hateful cruise ship

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: Fantasy-prone nowag

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

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