New Questions in the Hunt for D. B. Cooper
Former newspaper and magazine reporter and editor Art Spinella believes there are. And he has wrapped them in a fictitious novel entitled �Drago #4.�
D. B. Cooper skyjacked Flight 305 on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, demanded $200,000 and ordered the Boeing 727-100 to fly to Mexico. It is the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history.
Some of those questions:
Was Cooper an expert or former military parachutist? Unlikely and unnecessary.
Are there major and crime-altering discrepancies in the speed and course of the flight? Very much so.
Did Cooper die in the jump? No.
Did the FBI alter facts to cover mistakes in its investigation? Highly likely.
Did Cooper have an accomplice on the ground? Highly unlikely.
Did Cooper have an accomplice in the aircraft? Extremely likely.
While Spinella makes no pretenses of having solved the mystery of who Cooper actually was, he has woven actual FBI and public-record reports into a tale that indicates the Bureau missed pertinent information that could have solved this case four decades ago.
Drago #4 is the fourth in the Drago Mystery Series.
Contact: Art Spinella / 541-260-0847