Anyone else not terribly convinced about the FBI's insistence that Dan Cooper didn't survive the jump when all the copycats who also parachuted, in similar areas (Utah, Nevada, etc.) all survived? In fact, one of the copycats is pretty much the exact same jump aside from the location (Utah instead of Washington), same 727 aircraft and everything.
Was just about to come on here and post this. I've got 5 jumps out of the Perris jet (while it was still flying).
Interestingly, all the DB Cooper stuff was one reason Perris shut it down. It cost them an inordinate amount of money to get through the red tape to be able to allow sport skydiving out of it (courtesy of the 'Cooper Lock' modifications), that once the engines came due for maintenance, they opted not to throw more money down the drain. It was a sad, sad day for the skydiving world.
Yeah, not at all convinced. As I mentioned in another comment, where was the corresponding missing persons report a few days later? Surely someone as "professional" as DB Cooper, who the FBI even insisted picked the day prior to a four day weekend so he would have time to return to work, would have at least one relative or colleague that would notice when he went missing.
