The Intriguing Story of D.B Cooper, $20 Million Dollars Required To Make the Movie!
May 3, 2008 – 2:51 pmI feel that it is about time a cutting edge movie was made of the infamous tale of D.B. Cooper the plane hijacker! I am offering my services to anybody out there who has got around $20 Million Dollars to invest in the project. I will develop a script and put together a team of up and coming actors and directors to film the movie. Like most of the movie going public I’m sick to death of seeing the same old boring actors and actresses in the movies. Message to the big movies studios out there don’t waste your next $20 million dollars on that clown Tom Cruise, or that boring twat George Clooney. They are not worth it.
D.B Cooper (aka Dan Cooper) on the 24th of November 1971 hijacked a Boeing 727-100 and threatened to blow up the airliner, if his demands were not met. All he wanted was $200,000 from the planes owners Northwest Orient.
The intriguing tale begins at Portland International Airport where Dan Cooper boarded a flight heading to Seattle, Washington. Soon after the jet had taken off, he handed a note to a young flight attendant named Florence Schaffner. The girl had thought he was just giving her, his phone number, so she casually slipped it into her pocket. He leaned forward and told her that she better read the note because he had a bomb.
The note he had given her simply said, “I have a bomb in my briefcase I will use it if necessary. I want you to sit next to me you are being hijacked”. The note also placed demands for $200,000, in unmarked $20 bills, and two sets of parachutes. His note carried the instructions for the items to be delivered to the when the planed when it landed at Seattle, Tacoma airport.
The plane flew in a holding pattern around the airport while the FBI formulated another one of their infamous master plans! Dan Cooper casually sat in the plane drinking bourbon whisky and soda, while he waited for his demands to be met. As far as hijackers go Cooper was seemingly the perfect host, he was pleasant to all and requested that the crew were to be brought meals upon landing.
Upon the arrival of his ransom demands at the airport Dan Cooper ordered the plane to land, and a few minutes after his items arrived at the plane, he promptly released the passengers.
Once the aircraft was refuelled and upon carefully examination of the ransom and parachutes. The plane took off around 19.40 and the crew were then ordered to fly the plane to Mexico, at a relatively low speed of 170 knots and at an altitude of 10,000 feet and under, with the landing gear down. There was a very good reason for Dan Coopers flying plan, an unpressurized cabin at 10,000 feet would curtail the risk of a sudden rush of air and ease the opening of the planes pressure door, for the subsequent parachute attempt.
Soon after take off at around 20.13 over the southwestern portion of the state of Washington, D.B Cooper lowered the rear airstair of the plane and jumped out never to seen or heard of again. He has virtually vanished without trace, at the time Cooper jumped from the plane, it was flying through a heavy rainstorm, with no light source coming from the ground due to cloud coverage. Because of the poor visibility, his descent went unnoticed by the USA Air Force F-106 jet fighter tacking the airliner.
To this date his precise landing zone remains a mystery, a extremely thorough 18 day search of the projected landing zone in 1971 brought no trace of Cooper, the money or his parachute. The never get anything wrong FBI concluded that it would have been impossible for Cooper to know exactly where he was going to land, and therefore must not have had an accomplice waiting to assist him upon landing. Another 6-week search was conducted in April 1972 with 400 troops from nearby Fort Lewis and again no evidence or existence of Cooper was found.
The first piece of evidence relating to the hijacking, was found in late 1978, when a placard which contained the instructions on how to lower the aft stairs of the 727 from which cooper parachuted from, were found by a hunter just a few flying minutes time north of Cooper’s projected drop zone. In February 10 1980 a total of 294 of the $20 bills which cooper had escaped with were found still wrapped in their rubber bands, 40 feet from the river on the banks of the Columbian river 5 miles northwest of Vancouver, Washington.
The question is did he survive or did he die, the crime was quite simply perfect if he lived and simply crazy if he didn’t. Some say he lived, and is living the good life in Mexico or slipped back into normal society and laughs at the FBI’s inability to find any trace of him.
Paramount, Warner Brothers, Disney or anybody with lots of money and sense contact me and lets make the project a reality. What I’m planning to isn’t too hard, i.e. write a great script, get together a group of up and coming and unknown but very talented actors and actresses, and of course make a great movie. But when you look at how easily the movie moguls waste obscene amounts of money on pure crap, my offer isn’t so far fetched that It cant become reality.
If you have the vision, the money and the foresight to be a part of this project, get back to me.
