infeeeee@lemm.ee to Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoD. B. Cooper - Unidentified man, who hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971. Parachuted into the night with $200,000 ransom from the plane. Never been found or conclusively identified.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-linkD. B. Cooper - Unidentified man, who hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971. Parachuted into the night with $200,000 ransom from the plane. Never been found or conclusively identified.en.wikipedia.orginfeeeee@lemm.ee to Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareBwaz@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoMy theory: the parachute they gave him was packed to not open. He’s impacted several feet into the ground somewhere.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThen the corpse would have been located. A human body falling from a height doesn’t drill into the ground. Also, the parachute would have been detected.
minus-squareDrRatso@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoHe asked for four, two main and two backup. Of those one backup was non-functioning and the other was supposedly possibly by him to carry the money. He asked for two sets specifically to imply a hostage might be jumping with him, to negate the option of parachute tampering.
My theory: the parachute they gave him was packed to not open. He’s impacted several feet into the ground somewhere.
Then the corpse would have been located. A human body falling from a height doesn’t drill into the ground. Also, the parachute would have been detected.
He asked for four, two main and two backup. Of those one backup was non-functioning and the other was supposedly possibly by him to carry the money.
He asked for two sets specifically to imply a hostage might be jumping with him, to negate the option of parachute tampering.