Part 47, page 270
DB Cooper-19672Serials SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8787
Document date 27 November 1984
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FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81)
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) A-10 THE SEATTLE TIMES SEATTLE, Wa. (EDITORIAL) Date: 11/27/84 Edition:
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Character: or Classification: SE 164 -81 Submitting Office: SEATTLE
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D.B. COOPER'S LEGACY
Filling the Northwest appetite for mystery
It is doubtful that the skyjacker known as D.B. Cooper ever imagined that he'd be honored at an annual party 13 years after he disappeared into the night with $200,000 and a parachute.
Most law-enforcement officials and aviation experts believe Cooper died in that leap from a Northwest Airlines 727 he hijacked in Seattle on Thanksgiving eve, 1971. About $5,800 of his ransom money was found on a bank of the Columbia River near Vancouver four years ago.
But each year at the Ariel Store and Tavern's annual D.B. Cooper Party in southern Cowlitz County, there is talk that he might even be among the cele- brants. They numbered about 1,200 this past week- end. It is the stuff folk of which folk lore is made.
Cooper, of course, was not a hero. He was a crimi- nal. But the mystery around him continues to fascinate.
Much like other Northwest-spawned mysteries, such as sasquatches and UFOs. Mostly, it is harmless fascination.
Romanticists will remember him as some sort of Robin Hood of the skies. Realists will remember him as the skyjacker who triggered airport-security measures that have made all of us safer.
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