Is there really a high IQ crime in this world?
The story happened in a quiet afternoon.
On December 24, 1971, at 14:50, 23-year-old Florence Shaffna, the crewman of Northwest American Airlines, was trying to focus on her work.
It’s Thanksgiving the next day, and when she thinks about the upcoming holiday, her thoughts go out.
Fortunately, this 305 flight was a short flight from Portland to Seattle, where it took less than an hour and a half.
Boeing 727-51, although a small, short-distance passenger, could be in Seattle within an hour, which would hardly affect her vacation.
After the plane passed through the clouds, Shafna began her work.
She was responsible for providing services to passengers in the second half of the cabin, although such short-distance flights as usual, where few passengers would buy drinks or food, should not be too heavy.
Shafna seems to have been a little out of order, and when the plane had just stabilized, the passengers at 18C suggested to her that they needed services.
A white man over 40 years old, dark-skinned, white shirt, black suit, even tie, looked like a long-standing businessman.
When Shafna approached, the man said he needed a bourbon and soda.
The crew members offered their drinks with their hands and feet and received money (in the United States, they had to pay for their own drinks).
Along with the money is a folded note, which Shafna is used to, and there will always be lonely passengers who write down on the note the hotel they’re going to be staying in, hoping for a nice encounter.
That is why she would not be so stupid if she skilfully put the note in her pocket and threw it out of her pocket, which would make the passengers angry.
The stewardess’ hand seemed to have put the man out of control, apparently for a moment before whispering to her when Shafna passed by again:
“Miss, I suggest you look at that note. I have a bomb! I’m sorry.
The little girl quietly opened the note while in shock.
The words on the note are standard printing, and in order to emphasize urgency, all the letters are capitalised! Basically, I have a bomb that can explode at any moment. Please sit by my side.
When Shafna looked at the note, she looked up and found that the man had moved to an empty seat near the window and filmed the chair she had been sitting on, indicating that the little girl was sitting here.
It’s not clear to Shafna whether it’s a real bomb, or whether it’s a one-time, untouched encounter.
After holding still, Shafna naturally asked to see the bomb first, the man took the note from her and then opened the briefcase by her foot.
The package contained 8 red cylindrical items, which were connected to a large battery with an insulation wire and did look like an improvised bomb.
After showing enough time, the man joined the briefcase and asked for 200,000 “circulationable United States currency”, four parachutes (two sets), one fuel truck to fill the plane with oil, to be ready by 17:00 at Seattle Airport.
To be sure, Shafna said she couldn’t make a decision and needed to inform the captain, and the man made a kind of gentlemanly gesture and said that she would not take the initiative to panic the passengers.
Shafna ran to the cockpit and sent this message to Captain William Scott.
After a long trial, the pilot instructed Shafna to go back to sit with the bomber and keep abreast of his movements; on the other hand, he contacted Tacoma airport on the southern outskirts of Seattle to get the information out.
On this side of the airport, North West Airlines headquarters and the FBI were immediately informed that the captain of Scott had sent out all the natural information about the aircraft when informing the airport:
In addition to the robbers, 35 passengers, 6 crew members, sufficient fuel, at least 3 hours of air travel.
With the response of the police and the airline, a police attack is about to begin!
One.
When Shafna returned to the robbers, he found himself wearing dark sunglasses.
The robbers showed ease and asked her if she had sent the message and received a positive response, and then raised the gods in her seat, leaving Shafna helpless.
On the ground, the president of Northwest Airlines, Donald Nilep, responded first.
In view of the reputation of the company, he authorized the payment of ransom and ordered all employees to cooperate with the robber ‘ s demands.
FBI agents also rushed to the airport tower, where they believed that the aircraft did not have much to do in the air and could cooperate, but wished to communicate with the hijackers about the details.
The captain had to send a message to the hijacker from another flight attendant, Tina Muklo, asking him if he could easily get to the cockpit to communicate.
After listening, the man laughed and expressed his willingness to communicate with the police, but did not go to the cockpit and allowed Tina to continue with her message.
At the same time, he suggested that Shafna, who was already blinded, should do what she had to do, not sit here with herself.
With Tina, the FBI quickly engaged the hijackers.
They said it would be easier to raise large-value banknotes if they were needed, but 10,000 old banknotes of $20 have to be numbered, which is a real problem, and hopefully more time. Given the fuel problem, could the plane land at Seattle airport and wait for us to deliver the money?
The man who hijacked the plane laughed and told Tina that she was well aware that the plane that landed on the ground was more easily under external control and that what I wanted was impossible to land before it was ready, so let them die.
However, time could be relaxed, and it was hoped that they would be ready before the plane ran out of oil, otherwise there would be a real tragedy.
After the man easily lit a cigarette with a match, snorted his mouth, thought for a while and handed Tina a $20 note:
“Please give me another bourbon and soda. Remember to get me change. I’m sorry.
Tina was somewhat impressed by the fact that the man, who was not nervous at all, was excited to come up here and “take me to Cuba” with a hatjacker who was completely different, very polite and verbal and apparently better educated.
After passing the men ‘ s response to the ground, Tina will start preparing whiskey and change.
After listening to the information, the captain, Scott, instructed the aircraft to circled over Kipper Bay in the event that it was run over by water and broadcast to the passengers, claiming that the arrival of other passengers in Seattle would be delayed due to poor weather conditions (which did rain at the time) and minor mechanical malfunctions, temporarily blindfolding the rest of the passengers.
F.B.I. is a little disappointed at the primary failure, but generally satisfied because they won the most precious thing — time!
With enough time, a large national machine can be activated, at least to collect enough information to prepare more fully.
FBI agents soon found a second point of contact — parachutes and fuel trucks.
They know that this is a suspicion set up by the hijackers, and that the way out for this man when he gets the money is the only way to get out of here, to jump on the way or to take the plane abroad, for example Cuba, which is, after all, the only place in the Americas that is not afraid of America.
The agents are sending a message to the plane that the parachute problem is easy to solve, and we have borrowed four parachutes from the nearby airbase, which will be delivered soon. The tankers are ready, please wait patiently for us to raise funds, and we will be informed in time.
In fact, at this stage, the FBI, they’re playing tactically with another set of military parachutes. In order to achieve a war that would allow for an intensive reduction of the regional umbrella, much of it was designed as a pure resistance device, which could not be substantially reoriented and which was fast.
If the robber agrees to use it, as long as he jumps, the FBI will be able to quickly determine a smaller range of searches, and the chances of capture will increase dramatically.
Moreover, since military parachutes are falling at a fast pace and are vulnerable to injury if not properly operated, it is even more difficult for robbers to escape arrest.
The man who got the liquor didn’t have a hurry to answer but started chatting with Tina.
Looking outside the window, he said that the plane seemed to be passing through Tacoma (a small town between Portland and Seattle) and then laughed that McCord Air Base was just 20 minutes from Seattle Airport, and that the guys were really slow.
But then his words were less friendly:
“Tell the men on the ground to stop this trick and the parachute must be equipped with civilian supplies with hand-opened umbrella lines. If they say they can’t find it, remind them that Seattle has a lot of jump schools. Yes! It looks like it’s time for dinner. I don’t think you have any appetite. I’m sorry.
The FBI agents who received the news were not so disappointed that they felt that they had already had a good harvest, at least to know that the robbers were familiar with Seattle, that they could find an accurate position in the air, that they knew the distance between the buildings and that there was a jump school.
And it can be established that this person has a certain level of knowledge of the jump, not a white one, and that these can be clues for future detection.
The most important thing is to use the time of this exchange of information, and the agents bring in a lot of people to take pictures of all the money they’re preparing, and each one of the numbers is clear and clear.
Little brother! You’re still a little young for tactics!
Two.
Both of the bandits believed to have achieved what they wanted were silent, preparing for the means behind them. The money, the parachute, the fuel truck were delivered to the airport, the FBI cleared all the runways, and a large number of snipers were in place.
17:24, a message to the plane, everything ready to land!
At 17:39, when the passenger plane came down from the sky with a huge amount of wind and rain, the snipers immediately realized that they could stop eating, and even the FBI, who were playing tactics, had a good feeling.
It was only when they delayed landing to take pictures of the money and create a situation for themselves that they realized that the delay was equally good for the robbers!
Because it was winter and early sunset, the result of the delay was that it was dark and the robbers had instructed the aircraft to land on an empty and lit apron and to close the lights and curtains of the cabin.
This allowed him to clearly observe the situation outside the cabin at any time, without seeing it, and prevented the possibility of approaching raids and snipers shooting black guns.
F.B.I. Commanders knocked on their heads, and felt that they would not be able to do much of a trickle in such a situation, and that they would have to send money and parachutes to the plane in civilian clothes (a bit like the uniform and the police, to avoid misunderstandings) to try to find out if they could break it.
In fact, the commander did not expect too much to make mistakes at such a critical node in the light of the design and agility shown by the robbers.
Indeed, the man did not show his head at all, but opened the back door and put down the stretcher so that the flight attendant Tina took everything.
Fortunately, after the robbers were more talkative and determined that nothing had been done, all 35 passengers were released and two additional crew members were given, including Shafna and another senior aircrew, who were still in the ring.
Only three of the cockpit members and the more chatting stewardess, Tina, were left behind.
F.B.I.I.’s lucky it’s not on the parachute, otherwise it’s too much trouble if the hijackers force the crew to jump.
The FBI, a little bit of a dog biting his ass, finally waited for a useful news report that Portland found out about the robber’s boarding.
This guy bought a plane ticket under the name of Dan Cooper, which could be a real name.
On the radio, the agent shouted the name, to see if he could deter the robber.
All of a sudden, the sound of such a voice did scare the robbers who were discussing with Tina whether the post-barracker door could be opened during the flight, but they did not panic, but responded with a smile on the radio and asked the ground to start refuelling the plane immediately.
Actually, it’s just that there’s no fat house in the FBI, because Dan Cooper is the main character of a French comic book and is a Canadian Air Force tester, which is an alias.
F.B.I. can only direct the tankers to refuel the plane, and both sides have started a new round.
The FBI, for its part, believed that the possibility of stopping take-off was no longer significant, so it contacted the Air Force base and the National Guard to ask them to send three planes to follow, at least to ensure that they could be intercepted before leaving the country and that the jumper could lock on the general position.
On the other hand, the robbers began to assign tasks to the cockpit, requesting a flight to Mexico City in the south-east, and detailed flight parameters, which could not exceed 185 km/hour (which was the critical point of the aircraft’s failure), not more than 300,000 metres (with oxygen to breathe) and not to be collected once the landing gear had been lifted.
In order to reduce the landing time and speed, he was able to professionally get the crew to cut the wings 15 degrees.
Captain Scott saw him so professionally and couldn’t afford to be so slow and immediately suggested that the 727 was a short-distance passenger, that the tank was not that big and could never fly to Mexico.
After a serious discussion between the two sides, it was decided to refuel the Reno-Tahho airport in Nevada to Mexico.
The FBI is beginning to be inclined to think that Cooper was going to run away, to study so well, to leave the country once in a while, to fail the dead brain cells.
The subsequent developments reinforced their judgment, as Cooper’s next request was not to close the back door and take off.
The captain, Scott, immediately objected, arguing that it was very unsafe to take off without closing the hatch, which could cause the aircraft to lose balance.
Cooper didn’t smile and told Scott it was safe, but he wouldn’t insist on it.
So casually, the FBI thinks he’s not too concerned about the jump, so the biggest possibility is he’s going to force the crew to jump and fly himself out of the country. Boeing has determined that 727 could actually be driven by one person.
At about 1900 hours, officials of the United States Federal Aviation Administration arrived at the airport, hoping to speak to Cooper face to face and to say that they could take off and get on the plane.
Cooper did not hesitate to refuse this request and reminded the police that it would take 15 minutes, in principle, to fill up this type of aircraft.
The FBI is a little impudent to answer that the pump delivery unit for the fuel truck has airlocks, time constraints, and the gas pressure in the tank has changed, triggering a fuel lock.
This explanation is understood by Cooper, but it is a little weird to mock the winter that triggers the airlock (the airlock is, indeed, more easily triggered in the summer).
Fortunately, the second truck soon filled the tank and completed all the requirements of the robbers.
3
At 7:40, Boeing 727 took off again, with Cooper himself, captain Scott, flight attendant Tina, co-pilot Lattazak and flight engineer Andersen in a total of five people, flying south-east on the plane.
At the same time, McCord Air Base took off two F-106 fighters, following Cooper’s vision, one above and one below.
The Air National Guard also redeployed a Lockheed T-33 trainer aircraft from other missions to maintain a direct response to the passenger aircraft at any time outside the passenger aircraft ‘ s sight.
The FBI’s arrangement is all that matters, and if a plane is going to cross the border with a fighter to intercept or even shoot down, the coaches who are going to jump below the umbrella will be able to keep their eyes open, at least to determine the general landing point and guide the ground rounding more than enough.
But after all, the members of the National Guard were not so professional, and their coaches were on a different mission, and they were flying in a corner, and there was not enough fuel for 20 minutes, and they had to land to refuel.
The fact that they didn’t have other aircraft to connect to is the biggest loophole in the whole round-up.
At the same time, Cooper began to show the bottom card and, after ordering the closure of the cabin booster, he drove all four crew members to the cockpit and closed the link between the cockpit and the cabin.
At the time, there were no observation holes on the aircraft ‘ s connection door and there was no possibility of surveillance, and the crew was no longer aware of what he was doing and only the engineers saw a canvas bag on his waist, possibly for ransom, at the moment of closing.
The good news is that the cockpits are out of their control for a while, so they can report the situation right now.
The simple reason is that, as we said earlier, 3000 meters of altitude has air, and the air pressure inside and outside the cabin will be balanced when the pressure booster is shut off, the hatch can be opened easily, and there is no too much wind and the umbrella conditions are complete!
The trainer plane that was flying directly under the plane had returned and could not be seen at the landing point, and the FBI had quickly ordered two fighters in the rear to approach the plane, but it was too late.
Around 2000 hours, the cockpit instrument indicated that the back door had been opened, and the captain, Scott, quickly contacted the robbers on the aircrew radio, asking for help.
Cooper answered the phone and hung up after replying aloud to NO, and then the tail went up at 20:13, so that the pilot had to restore the flats manually in order to continue the flight.
The crew recorded the position at the time, about 25 kilometres north of Portland, at the edge of the Lewis River.
The crew briefly discussed whether the tail was probably caused by the bandit’s jump, but whether it was better not to open the cockpit door than to land at the airport of Reno, as previously agreed.
There were no jumpers in the rear, either on radar or in sight, and the FBI agreed to take the passenger plane to the airport.
At 2215 hours, after two planes had finally landed at Reno airport and repeatedly contacted the robbers, the FBI carefully surrounded the aircraft and then stormed and searched it.
However, they only found four groups in the cockpit for the rest of their lives, and Cooper has been found.
4
The FBI, which found that the robbers were no longer visible, immediately began the investigation.
They quickly split into three groups, the first of which looked for all the clues on the plane; the second, who contacted the police and agents close to the hijacker’s parachute, began an immediate search; and the third, who wanted to map the robbers as soon as possible, looking for witnesses in Portland, Seattle and Reno, where the robbers boarded the plane, and where the aircraft landed.
The first group worked in a professional and smooth manner, taking 66 suspicious fingerprints from the plane and finding the black tie dropped before the robber jumped, with a metal tie clip on it.
Two other parachutes that Cooper did not use were recovered, one of which was opened and the hood line was cut off and suspected of being used by the robbers to tighten the canvas.
After the whole search, they found no bomb, but the wine cup used in Cooper took fingerprints and lips prints, as well as the cigarette butts of eight Rory cigarettes smoked by the robbers, where they took teeth marks, and determined that he had a dog tooth that had been replaced, which was a collection of material that could be collected.
The second group, which had no first-time search, was given on the grounds that the weather was so bad and the terrain of the target area was so complex that it was not until the morning of the following morning that the search team was dispersed.
The night-long storm destroyed all the ground tracks, and the search team spent weeks in the air and underground, even using helicopters, finally finding a pair of ragheads, rotten shoelaces and nothing connected to the case, wasting a lot of manpower.
And the third group is really stupid compared to the last group. Their initial picture of the suspect can only be classified as a chick eating a cartoon like a mito, and they’re relying on it for a guy named D.B. Cooper.
The brother had a minor criminal history and happened to be wandering around Oregon for a long time. The police summoned him without hesitation, starting with a great memory recovery, and then found themselves mistaken, and the man committed the crime when he was drunk on a party with more than 20 people and had no time to commit a crime.
It’s not a big deal, it’s a big mistake, but it’s a bad cop who leaks his name to the press.
Of course, disclosure to the media is no big deal, and it is only a matter of half an hour before a suspect can be declared out, but it is the police officers who did not rely on it that day who met equally unworthy journalists.
American journalists are well aware that, in order to steal the news, they are largely unobserved, and a reporter named James Long, who has been running back to send a story, has never heard of a suspect, because he was the first to report, so Dan Cooper became DP Cooper, and it’s been going on so far.
Soon, the heads of the three teams met together to find that the clues at hand were not sufficient to target the criminals, and then they came up with two more stupid ways of working at the same time, trying to get the clues with enough manpower.
The first way they do it is to control the channels. Isn’t that a ready clue?
The FBI quickly sent banknote numbers to places where financial institutions, casinos, racetracks, etc. regularly deal in large amounts of cash, demanding that they pay attention to the money and offering an incentive to recover 15 per cent of the amount.
When the results were found to be low, they published their numbers in the United States and were prepared to use a wide-spread net to fish, which unfortunately was completely out of effect in the United States. Not only was a stolen money not found after the number was published in the United States, it also facilitated the business of printing counterfeit money.
The fact that millions of commies are looking for them with counterfeit money with stolen money numbers, that the hijackers have not caught, and that a bunch of fake gangs have been knocked out, is probably a preference.
The second option the FBI came up with was to continue the search, and we couldn’t find a clue in the jump zone, so we could just expand it, from Seattle to Reno, the last landing of the south, and then pull one more time, and we wouldn’t believe a trace.
In fact, they didn’t find anything, not necessarily because the FBI is incompetent and blames the United States for being too bureaucratic to carry out the search until the next February.
It’s been three months. Where else can we leave them? Even with the submarines, there’s no eggs.
The FBI, which has exhausted all its work, has been able to build a hard-core team to screen suspects in the dumbest way. The job lasted until 2016, when they screened over 1,000 targets, with the exception of 24 who had been cleared of suspicion, with a heavy workload, but still without an egg, because the 24 did not rule out suspicion, but did not have enough evidence to convict them.
What’s worse, the FBI lost the most important evidence cigarette in order to match the teeth marks…
D.B. Cooper and that huge money just disappeared into the vast American land, as if it had never happened.
5
It’s not realistic if we say we haven’t found anything in decades, after all, it leaves a mark.
In 1978, a deer hunter trapped 20 kilometres east of Washington State Castle Rock and accidentally discovered a back door note for the hijacked aircraft.
This found the FBI’s face snapped because it was within the scope of their previous search, not twice, and after several years it was found by an amateur.
It’s just that it’s not gonna help the case. It’s either Cooper or the wind.
Another major discovery occurred in 1980 when, on February 10th, Brian Ingram and his family took a holiday along the Columbia River, where the bear boy set up a bonfire on the sandside of the river, dug a hole and accidentally found three banknotes!
Although the banknotes had been corrupted, their rubber bands were kept intact.
F.B.I.S. quickly determined that the 3 banknotes were part of the Cooper robbery, and strangely, 2 of the 3 banknotes were undisturbed 100 and 1 of them was 90.
This discovery, in addition to still smashing the face of the FBI (also in the search area), was counterproductive to the detection work, because the Special Unit’s investigative thinking was so divided that it was impossible to argue.
The hydrologists who came to the military for help believed that the money was washed up from water and buried through layers of natural brushes, as evidenced by the fact that the money had rotted into an elliptical form, and the middle part had been attached to it, which was consistent with bubbles.
If this assumption is established, there is no advance in the case. There’s a lot of tributaries on the Columbia River. Moreover, it is not possible to judge any of the robbers ‘ behaviour, which can be in a river when swimming, in a river when jumping or in a river when Cooper is bored.
Some of the agents in the task force have turned a blind eye to hydrologists, who have come to the conclusion by experiment that the rubber bands of bundled money can easily rot if they take longer to bubble water, and that these rubber bands are all intact, apparently buried by someone who should be Cooper, otherwise there is no way to explain that there are 10 fewer.
The number of people who support the human being’s burial is relatively high, but it still does not help to solve the case, because there is nothing valuable to move forward, except to prove that Cooper has been present.
The head of the FBI doesn’t care about these little arguments. After all, there’s a pattern. Let’s just start with the beach where we found the leftovers. If it’s buried, there’s probably somewhere else. Maybe we can find more.
But it seems that there is a certain will not to let them go, that in March 1980, near St. Helen’s volcano, the eruption continued until May, during which time earthquakes, underwater explosions and avalanches dramatically changed the landscape.
Of course, the agents could not have let the outsiders do nothing, a guy named Larry Carl found interesting things, and after a close comparison, he suggested that we should overestimate Cooper’s parachute ability, and that he had chosen the two oldest of the four parachutes he had prepared, while turning a blind eye to the more powerful umbrella.
And Cooper’s jump in the case was unprofessional, and although he removed his obstructive tie, it was clear that he was wearing a suit and shirt without taking into account temperature, much less asking for a protective helmet, and most fatally he was carrying a bomb bag…
My colleagues say that Brother Karl is a Holmes approximator. That’s not gonna happen. Yeah! So what? Check the thousands more? Still no way.
With the advances in technology, some micro-evidence was gradually excavated, some DNA was extracted by agents, and some interesting things were found on the ties and ties that Cooper left behind with electron microscopes, such as stone pine spores, or pure titanium metal particles, platinum and sulfide particles.
Apart from the stone pine spores, these happen to be in the Boeing supersonic project in the ’70s, and it happens that both plants are in Portland, where the story begins.
Six.
The FBI has been tracking this case since 2016, during which they have been subjected to numerous molests, at least a dozen jumping out of a claim that they or one of their relatives are Cooper, but each has a key piece of evidence.
By July 2016, the head of the FBI was tired and announced that he would not be actively investigating the case and transferring valuable manpower elsewhere.
The funny thing is that then-Director James Kermit, Jr., came up with the socialism of the People’s War and announced that he would encourage civil society to take part in solving the case, and that he had released all the material on the FBI’s official website for decades, 60 volumes.
On the basis of this information, we can have some knowledge of Cooper, who is about 1.78 metres tall, weighs about 82 kg, is over 40 years old, has dark skin, has a sharp brown eye, and has a left lower tooth.
He is familiar with the urban structure of Seattle, he has a wealth of aviation, he knows 727-51, he knows more than average engineers, he probably works for Boeing or airlines. There is also a certain jump skills, which, according to Agent Carl, does not reach expert level.
Robbers’ tobacco and alcohol habits fit the general American profile, bourbon is a special American product, and Rowley cigarettes are typical of American smokes, and it is highly likely that the man is left-handed or both hands are flexible enough, depending on the way his tie is fixed.
In addition, Dan Cooper ‘ s cartoon was not released in the United States at the time, nor was it available in English, and the use of the alias by the robbers to exclude coincidences is highly likely to have lived in the French-speaking region or to have a good knowledge of French, most likely in World War II or Vietnam.
Some of their language habits, such as the “frozen United States currency”, are not in line with local characteristics, and, in combination with their tobacco and alcohol habits, could presumably be first- and second-generation immigrants.
After many years of investigation by the FBI, it was determined that no suspicious persons had disappeared during the weekend of the crime, from Seattle to Oregon, and that agent Carl had assumed that he was unlikely to die during the jump, but could not be ruled out.
On the basis of these leads, a large number of civil society organizations have started Operation Conan-General, which, while providing a number of interesting ideas, has made little progress on the case.
They’ve got a web site, they’re trying to set up a three-stealer set. Unfortunately, today, apart from expanding the suspect’s size and writing a number of popular novels, civil society can’t save the FBI.
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According to current information, there are so many interesting suspects:
The most appropriate suspect was Kenneth Peter Christiansen, born in 1926, of age and age, who immigrated to the United States with his parents, in line with a second generation of immigration speculation.
He joined the paratrooper force in 1944, but because the European battlefield was too smooth to go to war, it was consistent with the lack of experience and knowledge of how to jump.
Kenneth worked as a mechanic in the South Pacific region of North-West Airlines (the one where the accident occurred) after the war, and did have a good knowledge of the aircraft structure and access to the cartoon. This was followed by a long time in Seattle, where the city was well known.
Kenneth’s tobacco and alcohol habits are the same as the robber, and she’s a left-handed man, and after seeing his picture, Shavna said that this man and Cooper on the plane were very similar, at least the most similar of all of them.
According to Kenneth’s brother, he found a folder of his brother’s, full of news clippings on Northwest Airlines, which had been suspended since the 1950s, but had stopped for no reason the day before the robbery, and could be shown to be Cooper.
But the FBI has reservations about the above, and they believe that Kenneth is significantly shorter than Cooper, only 1.73 metres, and that the difference in height of this size is unlikely to be flat and wrongly weighed. What is more important is that people are more experienced in the use of military parachutes and are unlikely to need a civilian parachute.
And because Kenneth was already sick in 1994, the FBI was unable to get a statement, and his suspicion was always questionable.
Sheridan Peterson, who was the closest suspect to the FBI, was also born in 1926, but had a birthday smaller than Kenneth, so he was 44 years old at the time of the crime and he was of age.
He had served in the Marines during World War II and had also travelled to the Viet Nam battlefield, meeting the conditions for access to comics in the French-speaking region.
Worse still, his height, weight and appearance are similar to Cooper ‘ s height and, after his discharge, he has long served as a Boeing technical engineer in Seattle, perfect for understanding Boeing aircraft characteristics.
Moreover, Peterson’s tobacco and alcohol preferences are compatible with Cooper’s, as well as his passion for adventure and glidering, and he has considerable field survival experience and unconventional jump experience.
And he also took a photograph of Boeing in his campaign in 1970, in which the guy was wearing a suit and tie and jumped off a plane with a pair of Oxford shoes just like Cooper, even at the same height as Cooper.
This combination goes beyond the FBI’s eyeballing him, even when he’s around and thinks he’s the famous Mr. Cooper. The man’s mental state is good under the prolonged media bombardment, and he’s happy to come out from time to time.
When questioned by the FBI, Peterson claimed that he was traveling in Nepal at the time of the murder, but no one could prove it, and he cooperated with the police in the DNA sampling, and no longer had any more.
According to the FBI in 2016, they were also helpless, the most appropriate DNA, collected cigarette butts that they had lost by themselves, lost several hands, collected DNA from more than one person, almost out of place, and couldn’t determine who the robbers were, and they gave Peterson a psychological tactic.
In any case, the most widely accepted suspect died in January 2021, and there was no more concern for him. He may be Cooper, or just innocent, and no longer has any meaning for him.
The most ridiculous suspect in this whole case is Barbara Dayton, born in 1926. She’s a sister!
In World War II, Ms. Barbara joined the merchant fleet and went to construction companies after the war to work on the blast, which should be much better than Herman Ram.
As a new woman with a desire, Barbara has always wanted to become a pilot in the airline, and the natural scum has made her pass for a pilot’s license hanged repeatedly, gradually beginning to hate this society, which discriminates against women.
Shortly after the murder, Barbara declared herself a DB Cooper, and I robbed that damn plane! Purpose? Simple! Protest against a society that discriminates against women! Why do you call Cooper a man? Can I put on makeup? You don’t look like a man to me?
What? Where’s the money? It was thrown into a reservoir near Woodburn, south of Portland. I’m sure we’ll find it! If you don’t give me a commercial pilot’s license, we’ll go on.
The FBI says that I’m looking at her as a loser, but after she’s been hanging around for a long time, the FBI sent someone to talk to her, and the people who went out to negotiate should have practiced the big memory restoration, and Barbara said the next day that everything was a misunderstanding, that being a woman was good, that there was no need to get past the plane…
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In fact, the idea of a jumper wasn’t Cooper’s first, but in early November 1971, a Canadian buddy named Paul Joseph Sini, who hijacked Flight DC-8 over Montana, was happy to be ready to jump.
But before the jump, Sini made a mistake, and the guy tied his shotgun to his own parachute, and was about to open the back door, and he was beaten by a bunch of non-Wudek crew members and passengers, and it was called a bad one, and after he landed, he said he was going to prison for 15 years.
And Cooper’s success has never been devoid of mimics, except for the fact that they’ve failed without exception, and that they’re in a fashion, and airlines and the FBI are well prepared for this crime, and it’s not easy to copy Cooper’s success.
For example, Richard Charles Boynter, who hijacked Hughes Air 800 on January 20, 1972, almost perfected Cooper’s operation by mixing his security with a plaster on his arm and controlling the situation when the plane went up.
Bointer asked for $50,000 in cash, two parachutes and a more professional helmet than Cooper.
After the release of 51 passengers, he ordered the plane to go to Denver and then bailed out over a plain in northeastern Colorado.
And then, the FBI pulled him out of the bush and beat him up. You’re learning Cooper, aren’t you? And the Cooper’s hole! Did you know about the helmet’s locator? How dare you play with us?
In 1972, after a series of terrible failures, the aircraft robbers no longer dared to mimic and stopped.
It wasn’t until July 11th, 1980 that a friend named Glenn K. Tripp went out again, and he didn’t fail his name, and the robbery was extraordinary.
The same day he hijacked a plane at Seattle International Airport that was also Northwestern Airlines, demanding $600,000 and two parachutes. It’s just a death wish, isn’t it?
But it was almost useless for the FBI, because Mr. Tripp had a bourbon to pay tribute to Cooper, and the Northwestern Air Operator, who had already made plans, had put sleeping pills in that drink, and 10 hours after the confrontation, the stupendous comrades who couldn’t keep their eyes open reduced their demands.
This time he asked for three cheeseburgers and an escapeable car, and the FBI said that the ransom was a big one, but it quickly met that demand, and it was very nice to add something to Hamburg, and poor Tripp fell asleep without a ride and got caught in the middle of nowhere.
Because it was so funny that the judge gave him a three-year sentence. But this time, he thinks it’s too much, and after he got out of jail in 1983, he hijacked a Northwest Airlines plane and asked to fly to Afghanistan.
He wouldn’t order any more whiskey, eat the food on the plane, tie the passengers and the flight attendants together. In the first half of the cabin, it’s all over.
The Tripp who stood in the back of the cabin was shot in the head by a sniper and ended his miserable life.
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So, after half a century of fermentation, DB Cooper became an incomprehensible legend in the history of crime, and the treatment of Jack the Ripper was the same as that of an immortal character in video.
And because of the absence of justice in the process of detection, Loki, who played the prank god, forced everything into myth.
Indeed, from a practical point of view, DB Cooper has contributed significantly to the safety of aviation. American public opinion, which has consistently emphasized the privacy of human rights since the incident, began to shift, and the following year, the Federal Aviation Office passed the Air Force Marshal’s Plan, which authorizes airport security checks and permits inspection of all boarding items, including luggage.
Boeing also suffered from the fact that there was an air-flow lock on the side of the hatch, which was very simple in the form of a set of springs connecting a leaf, an increase in the air flow of the aircraft outside the cabin during flight and the fact that the blades were pressed over the spring vertically and could not be opened from the inside. When the air flow of the aircraft drops down, the spring presses the blade and opens the lock.
They call it Cooper’s Lock, to remember the man who forced them to invent it.
In addition, the aircraft manufacturers installed insulated eyeglasses on the door of the cockpit in order to avoid any further incidents where the hijackers could not be identified at any time, and subsequently further improved the observation capability of the cabin with a large number of hidden cameras.
To put it simply, Mr. DB Cooper ‘ s greatest achievement was not the planning and execution of a perfect crime, but the rapid and self-supporting promotion of technological development in the field of aviation security, which in that sense was his modest contribution.
Is there really a high IQ crime in this world? – Little John’s answer.
I don’t know.
Keep your eyes on the road.
