Have you ever wondered who and what happened to D.B. Cooper? Is it possible for someone to stump the whole country including the FBI? Well someone figured out how to and his name is D.B. Cooper. In this paper, it will explain what happens to D.B. Cooper, but also what they say is his identity. I believe, after many weeks of research, that D.B. Cooper didn’t die and survived the hijacking. My two theories of D.B. Cooper’s case are that he survived the hijacking and secondly he died from the jump. My first theory is who is D.B. Cooper and how did he escape. Investigators think he is Kenneth Christiansen. The reason they think he was Kenneth Christiansen is that they both had the same briefcase. Also before D.B Cooper talked to the flight attendant …show more content…
Cooper died after making his getaway jumping from the 727 airplane on November 24, 1971. My second theory on D.B. Cooper is that he died after jumping from the plane. After this, when he survived, Kenneth Christiansen really wasn’t D.B. Cooper after all. People asked, “how someone jumping out of an airplane at 10,000 feet and going approximately 200 mph?” They also researched a case similar to this one. Richard McCoy also hijacked a 727 and requested half a million dollars. McCoy did something similar to D.B. Cooper and jumped 16,000 feet from the plane with a parachute on. This plane was also going around 200 mph like D.B. Cooper’s. McCoy survived the jump and they are thinking that if McCoy pulled the jump off, then D.B. Cooper could of also. They thought it was McCoy pulling another hijacking. They said, “He pulled it off once, he might think he can pull it off again. That thought was quickly eliminated because McCoy didn't match the physical description of D.B. Cooper. The FBI says, “He could have died and then animals ate him and that made he not be found.” If he died during the landing, his belongs and the money could have been moved elsewhere from just nature. The number of the flight DB Cooper was on is Flight 305. Flight 305 was a domestic flight and much of Kenny's experience with working with that airline was international. That would make Kenny stand out on that flight. On November 24, 1974, it was 7 below zero and there was a rainstorm happening. He looked like he was going to a business meeting, not ready to jump out of a plane. When D.B. Cooper’s description came in, it said that he was wearing a suit, tie, loafers, trench coat, brown dress shoes, and a white dress shirt. As you can tell he wasn’t dressed for jumping out of a plane with a 200 mph wind. He could have frozen to death not even halfway through the fall it was so cold outside that night. The FBI also said that D.B. Cooper was most likely an inexperienced parachute.
During one of his missions, his B-24 plane suffered damage and some of his crewmates suffered injury. Awaiting reassignment, in Hawaii, the healthy men received a different B-24 “The Green Hornet”. Unequipped for the air, Louie’s superiors ordered that his crew to complete a search and rescue mission. Experiencing mechanical difficulties, they crashed into the Pacific on May 27, 1973. Only three of the men onboard survived : Louie, Phil, and Mac.
but it was not. The pilot was having a heart attack. Pilot dies on the plane and Brian tries to work
The murder of Christopher Wallace (The Notorious Big still remains an unsolved mystery. He was killed in a drive-by shooting on March 7, 1997 around 12:47 a.m. According to the FBI case file, he was traveling with his entourage after the Soul Train Music Awards on Wilshire Boulevard, and a car pulled up beside him at began firing. Witnesses claimed a black male dressed up in a blue suit with a bow tie began shot four times in the front passenger seat where Biggie Smalls where seating. The weapon that was used was a 9mm pistol was used to kill Biggie Smalls while driving in a Chevy Suburban.
Even though the coded letters in the newspaper articles seems to be working well with the kidnapper, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr’s body was found on the side of the road (Perloff 1). “On May 12, about four miles from the Lindbergh’s house, the baby’s corpse was found in roadside woods by a trucker who’d stopped for a call of nature” (Perloff 1). The baby died from a fractured skull due to external violence (Swayze 1). Lindbergh Jr’s body was badly decomposed. His left leg, right forearm, and all organs except liver were missing from his body.
Investigators falsely accused Richard Bruno Hauptmann of kidnapping and killing baby Charles Lindbergh Junior. Someone had kidnapped the child, son of Anne and Charles Lindbergh, and was assumed to have held him hostage for over a month. A truck driver discovered his body near the Lindbergh
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a United States military analyst, released the top-secret Pentagon papers to the public. He is on trial under of the charge of the Espionage Act, theft, and conspiracy. The president, Richard Nixon, in the midst of the media’s attacks, orders Charles Colson, a member of his special administration, to dig up some dirt on Ellsberg to discredit him while he is on trial. Colson hires E. Howard Hunt, a CIA officer, to join the president’s Special Investigations Unit. Hunt’s mission escalates to breaking into Ellsberg’s psychiatrist's office and helping organize a break-in at the DNC at the Watergate in June of 1972.
(Wright 13) When he saw the luggage he knew something was up and his mother was afraid to tell him what was going on. They then tell him
Every Once and awhile, tragedy strikes, and the whole country sits still. On January 13th, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed. An event such as this one, though tragic, is sadly fairly common. Although, on January 13th, every soul in the united states had their eyes glued on the news channels, following the crash. There are many speculations about why this crash, in particular influenced the public so dramatically.
Over the past years there has been over hundreds of thousands UFO sightings throughout countries all around the world. These sightings many times are linked with something having to do with exterrestrial entities . One of these encounters happened a near 69 years ago near the town of Roswell, New Mexico. This encounter will go on to be one of the most renowned and famed UFO encounters in history. This encounter will be a precedent for all UFO sightings in the future to live up too.
On the crisp morning of October 9, 1955, Bob Sheldon was found dead. Cristina Hunt was walking her Golden Retriever, when she discovered Bob, lifeless in Centennial Park. It was detected that Bob had a stab wound. Bob was most likely assassinated by the Socs rival -- a Greaser. Greasers and Socs have a strong hatred for one another.
It was common knowledge that this was a high profile case and how important an identification would be not only for the FBI, but to the world. A little over two months later it was concluded
The aircraft was “missing” from the screen of the men watching the many planes flying in the same direction in Ireland at around 8:14 (national geographic). The men in Ireland knew that it could have been a high-risk flight, so they called it in as missing within one minute when it normally would have been called in after 20 minutes of disappearing from the screen. At 12 pm that same day over 100 bodies were found in the ocean. Many were found in and around cork Ireland. Surprisingly Canadian owned cargo ships were the ones to have found the victims.
At the beginning of the war, many accidents were due to mechanical problems with planes, bad weather and errors in navigation. Louie called the B-24 that they flew on a “Flying Coffin.” “Flying the B-24, one of the world’s heaviest planes, was like wrestling a bear” (Hillenbrand 55). On Thursday, May 27, 1943, Louie, his friend Phil and Cuppernill were headed to Honolulu for their day off. Before they left, a lieutenant flagged them down and told them there were going a mission to search for a missing pilot.
Of the two parachutes he took, one was a non-working training parachute that had been supplied by mistake. If he relied on that chute, he undoubtedly fell to his death (D.B. Cooper 3). Cooper chances of survival keep getting smaller and smaller. The wind speed would have sent him tumbling and blown off his slip on loafers; even if Cooper survived the jump, he would have had a sprained leg at best which still would have spelt his demise in that environment. To conclude, theorists believe the evidence of Cooper’s death is much stronger than that of the Weber theory.
Brian is confident that someone was looking for him when he heard the plane. Pretty much everyone is afraid of getting mauled by a bear in their sleep when camping. But, Brian wasn’t camping. He was optimistic. He kept himself safe.