The Legend of Tony Clams and D.B. Cooper

Wednesday, November 24th, 1971, a Boeing 727 aircraft was hijacked by a mysterious figure known as D.B. Cooper. The man made off with over $200,000 and left the plane by skydiving mid-flight. No one knows for certain if Cooper survived the jump or if he was working alone. It's the opinion of many FBI agents that Cooper must've had a man on the inside. It's popularly believed that this man is Tony Clams, the airman.

Much of Tony Clams youth is heavily debated, and most of what is known is purely speculative. It's believed that Tony Clams spent thirteen semesters in a flight academy in the Baltics before he was kicked out for bad behavior. Clams was known among his peers as "Tony Clams, the Airman" for his incredible natural ability to pilot any plane with his eyes closed. This knowledge is the basis of the theory that Tony Clams was the mastermind behind the D.B. Cooper air heist.

The popular theory is that Cooper was merely a puppet of Clams, and that Clams knew from the beginning that Cooper would not survive his escape. The motivation for Tony Clams betrayal isn't clear, but some believe that D.B. Cooper had once sneezed in public and made a big deal of Clams, a complete stranger to him, not saying "bless you." Cooper reprimanded Clams and humiliated him among many of Clams' peers. This was November 18th, 1971.

Clams started secretly following Cooper 24/7, and quickly learned of Cooper's planned heist. Tony Clams then infiltrated Cooper's bank account and had a GPS tracking device implanted onto Cooper without his knowledge. On the day of the heist, all of the ransom money awarded to Cooper instead trickled into Clams' bank account, and Tony Clams had actually replaced Cooper's parachute with a cassette tape of The Bee Gees' 1970 album, "Cucumber Castle."