Last night I watched a show on history channel on perfect crimes. One of the episodes dealt with the skyjacking performed by D.B. Cooper (which in actuality was Dan Cooper but a screwup by the press made it D.B.). While watching this I started thinking about it, I knew a bit but not a lot about it as I was only about 13 when it happened.
He obviously planned it very well, he had the plane fly below 10.000 feet, had researched and picked a plane that had a rear stairwell that lowered, had the plane fly at 170 knots (which just happened to be to slow for the at that time current fighters, too fast for current prop planes and helecopters to follow), and ordered 4 chutes so he could inspect and pick the best one.
Then he lowered the stairs and jumped out over a national forest, north of Portland, on a cold, stormy October night.
Now they never said anything, but he was known to be wearing a suit and tie, about a winter coat or any other type of luggage. So I wondered aloud, my wife commenting that I was nuts and probably the only poerson thinking this, what he had taken with him in the way of survival gear, clothing and other gear.
Now we shall probably never know, but has anyone heard anythign speculated, or a semblance of an inventory they might have expected him to have?
Lastly , what under these circumstances, putting yourself in his place, would you take? Knowing you were going to have to hide it, jump with it, and live from it afterwards?
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Lee
LIfe is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde
He obviously planned it very well, he had the plane fly below 10.000 feet, had researched and picked a plane that had a rear stairwell that lowered, had the plane fly at 170 knots (which just happened to be to slow for the at that time current fighters, too fast for current prop planes and helecopters to follow), and ordered 4 chutes so he could inspect and pick the best one.
Then he lowered the stairs and jumped out over a national forest, north of Portland, on a cold, stormy October night.
Now they never said anything, but he was known to be wearing a suit and tie, about a winter coat or any other type of luggage. So I wondered aloud, my wife commenting that I was nuts and probably the only poerson thinking this, what he had taken with him in the way of survival gear, clothing and other gear.
Now we shall probably never know, but has anyone heard anythign speculated, or a semblance of an inventory they might have expected him to have?
Lastly , what under these circumstances, putting yourself in his place, would you take? Knowing you were going to have to hide it, jump with it, and live from it afterwards?
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Lee
LIfe is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde
