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Who/and Where is D.B Cooper? Have you ever jumped off an airplane and vanished? Well, D.B. Cooper did. D.B. Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 out of Portland on November 24, 1971, threatened to explode a bomb if he didn't receive money, Once he got the money, the hijacker released all passengers and ordered the crew to fly to Mexico with cash in hand, the man parachuted from the aircraft. This led to a worldwide manhunt for a man that left without leaving a trace.Given the lack of definitive evidence and the outcomes of the FBI's thorough investigation, people believe he survived the jump and some others believe he died, till this day this mystery is unsolved. The theory of D.B. Cooper states that he didn't survive the jump from …show more content…

Another theory suggests that he survived. Countless individuals believe he survived and hid from authorities, and people believe Cooper is in a remote cabin in the woods. It's believed he has been hiding there since he parachuted from a hijacked airplane with nearly $200,000 cash. and a former FBI agent claims D.B. Cooper survived his jump, Tosaw, who was an FBI agent from 1951 to 1955, said he became interested in the crime.Since then he has done extensive research interviewing the six crew members on the Northwest Airlines Flight 305 that was hijacked on a Portland to Seattle run and other people involved in the case.He also surveyed 100 parachutists on whether they thought Cooper could have survived the jump from the rear door of a Boeing 727. He said 70 percent of those he checked believe the skyjacker could have survived, Tosaw theorizes. From my perspective, it’s clear that D.B. Copper didn’t survive the jump because, after a 45-year FBI investigation, his identity, whereabouts remain unknown. No one even knows whether he survived the jump and one of the prime suspects died in 2019 and no trace of Cooper or his belongings were found, This lack of physical evidence has led some to believe that he may not have survived the jump and surviving in the wilderness with limited resources would have been incredibly challenging as the area where Cooper landed was dense, making it difficult to

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