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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sometime later they did discover part of the cash strewn
and wet through. I recall</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>reading that they opinioned he had hit the trees and
probably did not make it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Years ago I represented a mason whose histroy on
deposition was that he was at</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>one time a sgt. in USAF. During a training mission in the
midwest he was pushing</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>155 howitzers out the back of his aircraft when the a
gun line snagged his leg and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>pulled him out. They were at about 200 or so
feet. No one even bothered to come</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>and look until he stood up. That probably was about
the force that Cooper had </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>going out the back of the 707. Unless he was an
exceptionally experienced</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>skydiver, chances are he did not make it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-reca---- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:36
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] A modern day
Oregon story (well sort of)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Bob,</DIV>
<DIV>How interesting!! Wonder if we will ever know exactly what happened
to D. B. Cooper.</DIV>
<DIV>Barbara Herring</DIV>
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<DIV>The Following occured in1971 when I was assigned to the 25th Air
Division at McChord Air Force Base, near Tacoma Washington, (the 25th Air
Division was responsible for the Defense of U.S. airspace from
northern California to Northern Canada, and often ran intercepts on
cmmercial aircraft off course as they approached the U.S. West
Coast.) On November 24, 1971, Thanksgiving Eve, A Mr. Dan Cooper
boarded a Northwest Orient Flight at Portland Oregon International
Airport. Once aloft he threatened to blow up the plane and demended $200,000
and four parachutes. Cooper had the plane land at SeaTac Airport Where he
colected the $200,000 from the Airlines and had all of the passengers get
off. Then he told the Air Crew to fly to Mexaco. The Hijacked Plane
was a Boeing 727. Remember it had a rear entrance up through the
tail. Cooper (some how became D.B. Cooper) put on one of the
parachutes and jumped out the rear entrance with all the money, and was
never heard from or seen again.</DIV>
<DIV>Well, at that time, I had my son ( about 17YO) with me as I had
promissed him a tour of the 25th Air Division Blockhouse,. Nothing
ever happend on Thanksgiving Eve! I had acces Clearance and escorted
him in. We had just gotten to my Office in the Blockhouse with all the
Radar Scopes when the <STRONG><EM><U>Alarms went off</U></EM></STRONG>!!!
The night duty officer told me that my son had to get out <STRONG><EM>right
now</EM></STRONG> and that the Division Commander wanted me at my Battle
Staff position ASAP.( Both my son and I were in Civies)</DIV>
<DIV>I tossed my son my car keys and had him escorted out. I was on
duty until at least mid morning of that Thanksgiving.</DIV>
<DIV>I could actually see the 727 on my Scope and we scrambled 2 Fighters
off within minutes. They could actually see the 727 ocassionally but
they couldn't shoot 'cause the Air Crew (Pilot, Co Pilot, Engineer and cabin
staff ,(about 4) were on board, also we were afraid of where it would crash
if we did shoot.</DIV>
<DIV>Well the rest you most likely know. Cooper did bail out
apparently over souther Washington, and was never heard from again!!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV class=signature id=signature>--<BR>Bob Goodman <BR>USAF Retired
<BR>University Place, Washington</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>