Bibliograph

D.B. Cooper and flight 305, re-examining the hijacking and disappearance, Robert H. Edwards

Type

Label

D.B. Cooper and flight 305, re-examining the hijacking and disappearance, Robert H. Edwards

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

D.B. Cooper and flight 305

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1243263138

Responsibility statement

Robert H. Edwards

Sub title

re-examining the hijacking and disappearance

Summary

"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." --Publisher website

Table Of Contents

The witnesses -- The escape -- Takhli -- The plan -- The flight path -- Highland -- The wind -- The sled test -- The descent path -- The placard -- Tena Bar -- Diatoms -- The tie -- However improbable

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