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-square36fedilinkarrow-up1267arrow-down119cross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.onlinetodayilearned@lemmit.onlineforteana@feddit.uk
arrow-up1248arrow-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-square36fedilinkcross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.onlinetodayilearned@lemmit.onlineforteana@feddit.uk
minus-squareBwaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·11 months agoMy theory: the parachute they gave him was packed to not open. He’s impacted several feet into the ground somewhere.
minus-squareDrRatso@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·11 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.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·11 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.
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minus-squareGlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoHe did pick the hardest to use out of the three, the one made for combat.
My theory: the parachute they gave him was packed to not open. He’s impacted several feet into the ground somewhere.
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.
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.
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He did pick the hardest to use out of the three, the one made for combat.