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Bezig met laden... D. B. Cooper and Flight 305: Re-Examining the Hijacking and Disappearancedoor Robert H. Edwards
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. An excellent, scientific, and thorough recounting of "D. B. Cooper" and the highjacking of Flight 305. In detailed but interesting chapters, with color maps, tables, and photographs, Edwards recounts the highjacking and picks it apart section by section. His conclusions are (spoiler alert), roughly, that (a) Cooper may have worked or known about Boeing or Air America tests of parachuting from the rear stairs of 727s; (b) the flight probably stayed in the Victor 23 corridor; (c) Cooper probably did not jump at the 8:11 pm pressure "bump" that most researchers and the FBI believe; (d) Cooper jumped out a bit later, over or past Portland, Oregon, which means he may have fallen in the Willamette River or the Columbia River near Portland; thus (e) the money could have ended up floating to Tena Bar for whatever reason (more easily explainable than the FBI landing site). That is it's well-argued and reasoned case in a nutshell. Edwards eschews the task of picking a suspect, or even asking whether Cooper survived the jump. Only in an afterword does he bring up a possible suspect, a loadmaster in the Army and engineer later, who was not pursued by the FBI. But he doesn't name him and leaves more work to be done. This is the book on the skyjacking I have been hoping for: scientific, explanatory, and not full of zany crackpottery. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The "D. B. Cooper" case is the only unsolved act of air piracy in US history. On November 24, 1971, a polite, nondescript, and dark-complexioned man calling himself "Dan Cooper" hijacked Northwest Airlines Flight 305, Boeing 727, between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. At Seattle International Airport, he demanded and received $200,000 and four parachutes, released the passengers, and ordered the crew to take him to Mexico. Somewhere along the way, he jumped. He was never found or identified. Forty-five years later, the FBI gave up the hunt. This book looks at the case from the perspective of a mathematician and pilot. It uses previously unexamined data and original-source documents, combined with the tools of statistics, aeronautics, and meteorology, to show where and how the FBI could resume the search and possibly find out at last who "D. B. Cooper" really was. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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