DB Cooper Hijacking
The mystery of the DB Copper hijack of the southwest airplane has always been a big controversy. Some people think he lived and disappeared with all the money. Some people think he died during the jump. There are a ton of theories about the high jacking. DB made a genius decision he played his cards just right, the mystery of the DB Cooper high jacking is still a mystery.
In 1971 at an airport in Oregon DB cooper boarded northwest airlines flight 305, a Boeing 727 -051 in route to Seattle Washington. The flight had36 passengers, and 6 crew members. The flight’s pilot, Captain William Scott, 51, had been flying Northwest for 20 years also abroad was First Officer Robert “Bob” Rataczak; flight engineer Harold E. Anderson,
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They called in the military just days after the hijacking. They needed the military’s help to figure out where he jumped. Close to one thousand troops from the military searched the ground where DB might have landed from his jumped. They also looked from the sky in helicopters. The military also tried doing exactly what DB did they took the plane that was hijacked (Boeing 727) and flew over the ocean with the stairs down, dropped weights that was DB weight to figure out exactly when the weight changed when DB jumped from the plane. A SR-71 super-secret spy plane was sent into photograph the entire flight path but no sign of DB Cooper was ever discovered (Carr). Nine years after the hijacking a young man by the name Brian Ingram found $5800 in 1980 just north of Portland Oregon on the Columbia River. The young man was digging a fire pit at Tena Bar in the sand. Just a couple of inches below the surface of the sand was three bundles of twenty-dollar bills. The cereal numbers matched up perfect with the bills that the cops gave the flight attendant to give too Cooper. This is the first sight of real evidence they have had since cooper disappeared in to the dark night sky in 1971. After Ingram found the bills it sparked something. The FBI searched for and analyzed the shores of the Columbia River in Oregon for more evidence of the when DB …show more content…
If he would have died when he jumped unless he was an experienced in skydiving, and they would have found more evidence than they did. If you weren’t an expert parachutist it would take six to seven practice jumps to be able to successfully make the jump that Cooper did. Cooper had to have some time in the air with a parachute. If Cooper didn’t know what he was doing as a skydiver then he wouldn’t hqave asked for the four parachutes he asked for. He also told the flight attendant that he didn’t need and instructions on how to use the parachutes. If northwest airlines wouldn’t have cooperate with cooper then things wouldn’t have went the way they did. It could have went a lot of different
...possible to connect this back to the heist, they would and they finally did. Although most of the suspects were dead or already put in a Witness Protection Program, the FBI still had contact with the high ranked member himself. In my opinion, I feel as though this entire investigation should have been solved decades ago, but considering the amount of evidence they had to show the court, was impossible. The Crime Family is very lucky to get away with what they did. Taking three time the amount that the planner actually wanted is a risk they were willing to take, but If “Stacks” could have got rid of the van like he said he was going to, maybe in 2014 we would have never found Vincent. We may never know what exactly could have happened. Although it may have been 36 years later, justice was certainly served to one of the biggest bank robberies in New York's history.
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