D. B. Cooper and Flight 305: Re-Examining the Hijacking and Disappearance hardcover
D. B. Cooper and Flight 305: Reexamining the Hijacking and Disappearance hardcover
On November 24, 1971 a polite, nondescript and dark-complexioned man calling himself "Dan Cooper" hijacked Northwest Airlines Flight 305 between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. At Seattle International Airport, he demanded and received USD 200,000 and four parachutes, released the passengers, and ordered the crew to take him to Mexico. Somewhere on the way, he jumped. He was never found or identified. Forty-five years later, the FBI gave up the hunt. The "D B Cooper" case is the only unsolved act of air piracy in US history. This book looks at the case from the perspective of a mathematician and pilot. It uses previously unsourced data, combined with 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.
- A reexamination of the events of November 24, 1971, in the skies over the Pacific Northwest, grounded in mathematics, aeronautics, meteorology, and the application of data and original documents
that hereto have been overlooked
- The “D. B. Cooper” case is the only unsolved act of air piracy in US history
- This book sets out a strategy by which the search for the hijacker’s
landing point could be resumed
Author Bio
Bob Edwards studied mathematics at Cambridge University and earned his MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics. He embarked on a career as an economist and later as a contractor in economic, demographic, and market research. He has owned and managed his own research firm since 1990. He holds a private pilot's license and has experience in parachuting.
D. B. Cooper and Flight 305: Reexamining the Hijacking and Disappearance hardcover
Published late 2021, 256 pages, over 100 black & white and colour photographs, maps and graphics, hardcover, 7" (18 cm) x 10" inches (25 cm).
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