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Why would Cooper jump at night, AND in the rain???


I haven't done a lot of research on the case, but this point always sticks with me. He knew the weather was bad, and jumping at night?!?? WTF was the point of that?? To make evading the authorities simpler??

What kind of plan would have allowed him to live, after making a jump in those conditions???

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I was 4 and a half years old and up in Hazel Dell, WA the night DB Cooper pulled this off. I remember when the boy found part of the money on the banks of the Columbia river in 1980. It re-ignited the case again and being 13, I was very interested.

Good question, the conditions were horrible! Yet, the FBI knew exactly where he jumped, and didn't find anything. The money found 9 years later was a good distance from where he left the plane. How did it get there? $5800.00 out of $200K is a pretty small amount. I have always imagined he somehow survived.

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probably didn't have a choice. When he made the plans to hijack he had a small window to carry it all out and the key part was leaving the plane. So he had to jump no matter what the conditions were.

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Good point, Marty. He couldn't have planned for EVERYTHING, so he must have known he wd have to wing some of it (pardon the pun).

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because criminals are dumb, look at bank robberies, with witnesses cameras marked money and banks usually being at busy crowded intersection(making a car getaway difficult) you would think bank would never get robbed, but banks get robbed every hour of the day, and robbers almost always get caught and they never get away with much money.
copoper thought it was a good idea on the surface but never bothered to get down to the details and all the variables.

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