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D B Cooper — Part 4

25 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Feb 16, 1972 · Broad topic: General · Topic: D B Cooper · 25 pages OCR'd
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; 43 nstead of. talking} ae as ‘wis somebody’ aBsa woul ask chit how reed moncy, a tale i 2 bs “he ve apeaing 0, 4 Wet $200,0 . « ih cn : Sure. I buried my chute;;; ANON; How did y you get so ae nar COOPER: Only two of my. projected. caletiations were off. They weren't important as it fumed out.” oe COOPER: iMultighy time by speed and oe come up:: _ with distance. | knew how fast we were going~afterall I told the pilot what speed to go-what vector we were - traveling on, and, at least approximately, what the winds . were. A man doesn’t necessarily need a computer, * ‘ae ON: How did you get from your landing spot to Isn’t the terrain between Seattle and Reno pretty inacessible?- MP a wae 2 COOPER: ‘Some i is, Some i isn’te SRS Ee ANON: You don’t want eto tell, us any more,: COOPER: Right. ™: oy ge ANON: Can I ask you whether you ‘had | an’ ‘accomplice on the ground?. ° COOPER: Sure, you can ask. ANON: But you won't say? . 0, + COOPER: Right. I don’t intend to give you any information that might, incriminate me. | coe, ANON: I understand. ; : 7 ‘} COOPER: You're getting warmer and let's, at my request, skip the subject. - eee : wity, ' . res Boeing 727100" standard transport tt F flown by. ee Airlines way, bac in 19645 ANON? mni¢ touch 78 j COOPER: First of “at "the aries of the thre ~” Pratt, & Whitney engines-two' on the sides of the rear’. fusclage and the third ‘at the base of the T-tail assembly. _ TL also liked the down-flaps stalling speed. One hundred and nine miles per hour, to be exact. Risky, but. nw " jumpable. Then I figured in the small crew; three on the flight deck and the three stewardesses, Two central | galleys and the wardrobes with two crappers to the ve Tear. I figured those might come in handy as a place to. _ hold a stewie hostage..As it turned out, I was right. can , Be ANON: Go ahead. mee COOPER: head, 28 first-class seats, _ANON: What about your exit?» : COOPER: I was getting to that. The ventral door on - . he . ' a ‘ ml, oa : Je H . forward oo, entry door - | a first to do the impossible. Ask Armstrong, “four ~ abreast. Sixty-six tourist seats, six abreast. te SB a : responsible for’ the stiffening of airline sécurity. A say . and talk al ut ‘motivation. Why: dtd you do 1d " there’ was the $200,000, but what else impelled se 7 » COOPER: _Pve read the papers, ‘watched tele sion, Tijuana. I've been called a jet-age Jesse Jameg Robin Hood of the air. Some of that drivel i BECAUSE IT WAS FUN. There is a thrill in pring the _ANON: How do you feel about the backlz ‘COOPER: Well, “rt oat thing, 1. wae cially A yy | “ y | ‘ventral . . Stair exit core SREY PYF RE TE ET Jee orig GL rT
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