Dear Friend and Reader,
I should be on a beach in Tijuana right now, sipping on a cleverly-made cocktail with some fresh pineapple, next to my hot male-to-female transsexual lover, DB CooperВ with $200,000 in ransom money. But unfortunately, I’m about 40 years too young.
Those of you who live in the Pacific Northwest may have heard of him: he’s the friendly hijacker who took off with $200,000 and a few parachutes on Nov. 24, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving. Cooper was the first hijacker to jump out of a plane, never to be seen again. Here’s the FBI’s page on him, with all the evidence they’ve gathered so far, and here’s an official news report from 1971 on Cooper.
Basically, Cooper was on a plane leaving Seattle when he handed a stewardess a note saying he had a bomb, and wanted $200,000 and four parachutes. He was very nice about the whole thing; when the planeВ landed at the airport to pick up the ransom,В he let all the passengers get off. While waiting for his money, Cooper asked that the stewardesses get a chance to sit down and eat their dinners (the hijacking occurred between 5 pm and 8:30 pm — dinner time.)
After the $200,000 was delivered, Cooper kept the pilots on board and had them take off again and head towards Mexico City, in an unpressurized cabin. At some stage along the flight, Cooper parachuted out of the plane into the dark, rainy night and was never found.
37 years later, a couple from Washington has published a book on Cooper, claiming he was their friend “Barb Dayton, a UW librarian who was a weekend pilot and lived in West Seattle. She told tales of adventures: sky diving, gold mining, boar hunting in the Phillipines. Then in 1979, she told them she was D.B. Cooper, describing in detail how she jumped from the plane over Oregon and hid the ransom money at a farm. The Formans didn’t know whether to believe her, but when she died in 2002, they started researching her life,” reports Lisa Javier of Citizen Rain.
After researching, they are pretty sure that Barb Dayton, who was born a man and had a sex-change operation after the hijacking, was DB Cooper. She died recently, which kind of destroys my whole Tijuana fantasy.
Eric writes that, like the first airplane flight everВ “there were many planets in Sagittarius.В Sagg is the sign of flight, among other reasons.В Also, there was a Sun-Neptune conjunction in Sagittarius, perfect for deceiving.”
“The Sun in Neptune is like a veil;В it makes obvious things invisible. As far as the transgender aspect,В Mercury was conjunct Venus in Sagittarius. That creates a lovely gender blur,В so I would say it’s entirely plausible that DB Cooper was a transsexual woman.”
“The implications of the chart are much bigger than what is suggested by this event, on its face,В in terms of global air security, the nature of air travel and so on. I can assure you the FBI learned a lot from this incident.”
So there you have it, the story of the first male-to-female transsexual hijacker to jump out of a plane and live to tell the tale.В
Or did she?
Yours & truly,
Rachel Asher