Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Missed It!

I don't think I get the history channel but if I do I missed the D.B. Cooper piece they did on Sunday and Monday. Apparently the cold case crew interviewed several people in Astoria,OR who remember a man calling himself Norman de Winter. The man claimed to be wealthy Swiss baron who made friends with the locals and extracted money from them before disappearing.  Several of the people the man befriended swore he was the same man in the sketch when D.B. Cooper made his famous skyjacking. I don't know what anyone else thinks but the First Officer of the flight also has a remarkable resemblance to the sketch,but surely the cold case crew would have looked into any connection to the flight crew...
Some “D.B. Cooper cash” is displayed at Collectors Universe in Santa Ana, Calif., in 2008. Brian Ingram, from Arkansas, found the sole link to the only unsolved airline hijacking in U.S. history buried along the Columbia River during a family vacation in 1980. Ingram brought the recovered money to Collectors Universe to be authenticated, certified and preserved.
An artist made these sketches of the skyjkacker known as Dan Cooper from the recollections of the passengers and crew of an Northwest Airlines jet he hijacked between Portland and Seattle on Thanksgiving eve in 1971. “Cooper” later parachuted from the plane with $200,000 of ransom money.
A hijacked Northwest Airlines jetliner 727 sits on a runway for refueling at Tacoma International Airport, Nov. 25, 1971, Seattle, Wash.
First Officer Bob Rataczak and stewardess Tina Mucklow of a hijacked Northwestern airliner walk to a conference with FBI after the plane landed, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 1971, in Reno, Nevada.
Is it just me,or does this guy look like the sketch?
Three members of the crew of a Northwest Airlines jet plane that was hijacked Wednesday, Nov. 24, 1971, discussed the experience the next day, in a news conference in Minneapolis. They are, left to right: First Officer William Rataczak; Capt. William Scott and stewardess Tina Mucklow, all of the Minneapolis area. Scott said it was his first hijack experience. The hijacker was given $2000,000 by the airline and apparently parachuted from the plane as it flew from Seattle, Wash., to Reno, Nev.
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