The person named Dan Cooper did jump out the rear airstairs of a 727 over a heavily forested area, carrying about 200K he had, apparently, appropriated in less than honorable ways.

To date, there has been no confirmation that a) he survived the adventure, nor that he did not survive.

oh, sorry i meant Cooper 8)
but i think its very impressive, at he jumped from a B727
with 200K$ and maybe survived

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Thats not neccessarily true.  The area where DB Cooper jumped from the 727 was in a very rural and rugged area.  Those who are familular with the Pacific Northwest's forests know that they are very thick and difficult to move through (I do a lot of hunting in Oregon, I know this very well).  The area where he jumped is a very think forest with very large mountains and other geographic obsticales.  This is the kind of an area where someone could enter and simply never be seen again.  Not only is the terrain so bad for a search-making a body very difficult to locate, but the wildlife in the area won't allow a body to remain very long.  There are all kinds of mountain lions and such here that will find a dead body rather quickly.  So, odds are (since the no money was ever found in circulation) that he died either upon landing or of exposure in the Pacific Northwest.  I would imagine that the reason his remains where never found is due to the terrain-probably the terrain more than the wildlife because no trace of his parachute or anything else was ever found.

I used to wonder whether aircraft doors could be opened in flight - they just sit there in the open with no guards and a very obvious handle.

He exited a via a door on the main fueselage, which is why the the Captain heard him, and the captain could hear his shout of 'No!', therefore, he must have been with in the main fueselage,.

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He didn't go out one of the side doors.  The aircraft he was in had a large rear loading hatch in the very back that opened downward (clear of the wings and tail), thats why they believed he chose that specific flight-they think he had researched it a lot before hand.

Well you got to figure that if he died, there wouldn't be much left by now.  His clothes and everything that he carried would have rotted away (maybe not completely, but probably pretty close) due to the wet envirnment-as would have the paper money.  His body would have been drug off and scattered by scavengers so their wouldn't be much of him left-it would probably be hard to recgonize his skeleton (due to the fact that it would be spread all over and the bones probably broken apart and scattered themselves).  It's just another one of those great Pacific Northwest mysteres that will likely never be proven or disproven...like Bigfoot.