Fun Trivia About D.B. Cooper

Here is a bit of fun trivia about D.B. Cooper since the FBI has new leads in this soon to be 40-year-old cold case. It's amazing how one man can hold the attention of a nation for four decades and still have a way to drive investigators insane.

Movie trivia:

Not only has one movie been made two have been made regarding this mysterious man who literally vanished into thin air. "The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper" was the first movie made and released in 1981. This movie was based on J.D. Reed's book, The Legend of D.B. Cooper

"Without a Paddle" was released in 2004. Movie goers are taken through the mishaps of three amigos who decided to chase down the lost money from the D.B. Cooper's jump.

TV trivia:

Just two years after the famous disappearance of Cooper, he was referenced on "Barnaby Jones." This episode aired in 1973.

In Season 4, Episode 3 of "Renegade," "The Ballad of D.B. Cooper" takes a look at Cooper hijacking a plane while landing in a town where an old out of business factory was reopened.

"NewsRadio" is the third show which had characters depicting Cooper. This story line was spread out over Season 5, Episodes 6-8 in 1998.

"Prison Break" was one of two recent shows which spun a tail about Cooper. In this episode, to the tune of $5m was set as the amount buried under a silo somewhere.

Again the $5m was brought to life in the sixth season of "Numbers" before it was cancelled the next year. Being the guys in the FBI in this episode, Charlie breaks down the accounts of the events of that day and how a quarter a million multiplied it self like rabbits.

Of course there have been other references to D.B. Cooper in TV shows. Such references include naming of characters, similar ransom demands and plane hijackings, and his lost treasure.

Other trivia and my own theories on these trivia tidbits:

The following bits of trivia are concluded with my own theories about D.B. Cooper.

November 24, 1971, was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving this year. Could Cooper have been on his way home to visit family for the holiday and decided to forgo the family dinner?

Northwest Airlines Inc., also known as NWA, was absorbed in a merger by Delta Airlines that was approved October 29, 2008. The merger happened 37 years after Cooper's famous hijacking and jump.

Cooper's flight plan was layed out for the cockpit crew. He provided in depth detail about taking off so the plane wouldn't stall. Since a request from a FAA official was denied for a face to face with Cooper, who's to say the whole scheme wasn't planned out by the handful of crew that was on board the flight. Cooper could have been another crew in disguise using a false name to throw off suspicsion.

Cooper's plot sounds like the perfect ending to Frank William Abagnale Jr.'s, grand scheme. Since Abagnale claimed he had at least eight identities, could Dan Cooper be one of those?

Just over $5k was found by a boy digging at the banks of the Columbia River, but the rest was never recovered. Could this have been a rouse to blow the scent off the trail of Cooper and the rest of the money?

Did you know you could search to see if any of your 20's were part of the lost loot of D.B. Cooper? You can see if the serial numbers from the FBI's list matches yours at D.B. Cooper Loot.

Now, a niece has come in to play after 40 years. Is this alleged niece looking for her 15 minutes of fame adding to the story line of what really happened that day in November?

Sources:

Famous Disapperances - D.B. Cooper slide; News.yahoo.com

Frank Abagnale; Wikipedia.org

D. B. Cooper at Wikia Trends; Wikia.csszip.com

D.B. Cooper in popular culture; Wikipedia.org