There was another tale of an airborne burglary when a thief leapt from a 727 - with a proper parachute - over an American desert and has never been found. I think it was more than just a burglary but can't remember the detail, and I think he got away with about $100,000.
Are you talking about D B Cooper? I think it wsa the Pacific North West, he hijacked a 727 and demanded two parachutes, that way they had to give him good ones incase he chucked the stew out. He took the suitcase full of loot and disappeared into the night. They looked and looked - over quite lush, but inhospitable terrain and could never find him.
The case went cold for several decades, then he resurfaced and like a **** got caught
I think there's a filum about him too.
Right I'm off to
wikipedia now to see how accurate I was.
somehow managed to walk through a spinning Britannia propeller,
I would have thought the arithmetic involved would have precluded this.