UNSOLVED: Discovering the Truth Behind the Disappearance of DB Cooper

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I love how Simon hosts soooo many channels that for half of them he just reads a script in his hands and we all still tune in delighted

As someone from the upper Midwest, I could see someone from this area or Canada referring to Minnesota as “nice country.” Given the stress the flight attendant was under it would be completely plausible she misheard him.

Americans, at least some of the ones I know in Ohio, will use a phrase “nice country” referring to the area the are talking about being beautiful or peaceful. e.g. “have you been to the upper New England states, nice country up there.” This could be how he was using the words.

For those who don't know there's also a coopercon where a bunch of D.B Cooper enthusiasts get together and discuss theories and stuff. It's pretty funny that they even referenced D.B Cooper in the Loki series, since there are a lot of outlandish theories.

The most amazing thing about this video is that Simon was able to say “effortlessly” correctly on the fist try

This story is always fun to hear about because everyone seems to cover it a bit differently. For example I heard on another YouTube channel that one possible reason he might have asked for four parachutes is since he had they couldn't risk give him a dummy one. Or something along those lines. Basically, by asking for that many they had no idea if he was planning to jump and take someone with him or not.

Simon you said "effortlessly" three times this episode without imploding, I am so proud of you!

I think the most shocking part of this video is that Simon is surprised an American flight would withhold alcohol service in 1971 for any reason.

10:05 Perhaps Cooper simply said "Minnesota's some beautiful country" and she misheard him. Saying "[area] is beautiful country" is rural parlance for the terrain is gorgeous and worth taking in in an area 🤷🏻‍

In North Central rural areas we use the word country to describe areas. So if someone told me they were from Kentucky I would say something like "that's beautiful country there".

Yes Simon, Money that came into a Bank back in the day was in fact scanned into Microfische in case any stolen or counterfeit money was being deposited or changed for real money, like handing in $20 to get $100's. I used to work and a long since defunct bank in the late 80's and we had to scan the till after counting them to open our station, then we had to scan the money at certain intervals, usually after I'd had a certain number of cash deposits, or is I had to have more cash moved into my drawer. Then at end of day we scanned again, and then deposited the money that was over our base till amount [for me was $250 since I was a sort of unofficial back upfor the Merchant Teller, and she needed to open her day with $750 even then to cover the needs of the merchants needing cash for their businesses.] So the FBI likely scanned to Microfische and also snapped photos of the money they had gathered too. Smart, offering non-sequential bills to put our Mystery Man at ease, while setting him up to be tracked when he spent or deposited that money.

I flew into New York in April 2001. Bought my first on-line ticket. Printed out my ticket, went to the main desk and was sent to the gate. At the gate a person asked my name and checked me off a list. Never looked at my ID, never looked at my printed ticket. I got fogged in three days later. I had to stay over another day, but my suitcase went out without me. Next day I returned to Miami and found my suitcase sitting on the floor in front of the luggage return bin. It sat there for over 24 hours untouched, unnoticed.

I still can’t believe that after DB Cooper jumped out of the airplane, he fought Bigfoot in the wilderness. What a wonderful world we live in.

Can we just get Simon doing a US geography test?

Growing up and still living in Vancouver, WA (I grew up about 8 miles from where the $5800 was found) I was so excited to see this covered. A lot of people think he probably died and ended up in the Lewis River or the Columbia River closer to PDX. Since the Columbia feeds into the Pacific Ocean, whatever evidence might have ended up in the river is most likely long gone. It's such a good mystery though.

Great video. I have one thing that I noticed was incorrect. The stairs on the 727 were never classified. They were a selling point that Boeing used the hell out of. One of the main selling points for the 727 was it would be a great plane for using in smaller, less developed airports. Having stairs on the aircraft means you don't need airstairs or an airbridge to get PAX on and off. One little cool thing, when I was still in aviation maintenance, I had a buddy I worked with who was a new mechanic working 727's when this happened. One of his first jobs in the industry was installing "Cooper locks" on the stairs so they couldn't open in flight. Pretty cool, simple mechanism.

I've seen so many videos on DB Cooper and never knew that he gave Tina a stack of money because she asked. And he didn't even think twice about it. That's amazing. I thought it was funny when you said an American can talk with a Canadian "aboot" anything and not hear an accent. I think that's how French Canadians say "about".

Something I don't think was talked about enough: he specifically requested civilian parachutes. My guess is that's because he wasn't a military parachutist at all, but had done civilian skydiving and so wanted specifically the ones he'd used before. Maybe even only did a handful of jumps before to prepare for this stunt and not really anytime else before.

on the being kind even as a criminal - you can get away with bank robberies without hurting anyone either, Simon! Or at least, you could in the 80s when a relative of mine was involved in a series of armed robberies (they were caught eventually and he served about 20 yrs). It was his job to keep an eye on the staff and they'd usually lock them in an empty room or disused vault to make sure they were safe out of the way, or he'd zip tie their hands quite gently and ask if anyone had asthma or heart problems, anything that meant he needed to go get their medication from their desks. Some of these folks testified on his behalf later on and probably contributed to him not getting life like the others. Don't be doing armed robberies OBVIOUSLY (he was young and it was during an almost civil war so his country was a mess anyway, he's very regretful), but you can be kind even if you are uhhh... doing some criminal activity.