FOX 13 Seattle writes “A microscopic metal fragment found on the tie of infamous plane hijacker D.B. Cooper could help reveal his true identity.”
D. B. Cooper is a media epithet for an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971. During the flight from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, the hijacker told a flight attendant he was armed with a bomb, demanded $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,400,000 in 2022) and requested four parachutes upon landing in Seattle.
After releasing the passengers in Seattle, the hijacker instructed the flight crew to refuel the aircraft and begin a second flight to Mexico City, with a refueling stop in Reno, Nevada. About 30 minutes after taking off from Seattle, the hijacker opened the aircraft’s aft door, deployed the staircase, and parachuted into the night over southwestern Washington. The hijacker has never been found or conclusively identified.
Maynard w
I love the DB Cooper story. I’m not sure if I want to hear it solved or not. Lol
Charles R
Same with me Maynard W.
ross s
I hope he got away with everything.
Ron S
If things keep going the way they do with technology, AI monitoring everything, robots outthinking and outperforming mankind at physical tasks… D.B Cooper and anyone throughout history who ever did the unthinkable, achieved anything great or interesting will only become a quaint story and a memory of the good ole days.
AI will rob humanity of all our potential or future greatness by doing these feats before we get there or think of them for ourselves, discouraging us from following our dreams to become more than we thought possible for ourselves (because machines will achieve it first or do it for us)… The lightning connection can potentially rob humanity of all of its thunderous achievements in the future.
Most of you won’t realize how special it is to be human (have a spiritual connection, to be vulnerable, to grow, to succeed through trial and error…and pain. To earn something for yourself and loved ones through hard work and feel a sense of pride in others for their achievements and efforts)… until it’s too late.
How many of us will dream to be doctors, be proud to do what our fathers have done, to sacrifice for family or God if those opportunities aren’t there…and those positions are then filled by machines?
Our glory days will dwindle to a memory of when we replaced that car tire ourselves, welded that bumper, made a gift for someone, hand wrote a letter, painted a picture…or jumped from a moving plane with a parachute and a bag full of cash.
So to humanity: Do not go gentle into the night, with a whimper, and dying inner light.
Be proud of who you are, no matter who you are. Humanity and all true natural life is a blessing and a gift. Robots do not possess the spark and inner light of God, only a power through a bolt in lightning… like Frankensteins monster… or a Zombie.
May God bless you all.
Lynn F
Well said brother.
Charles R
There is certainly the high potential for what you stated Ron S. Their is also the potential that the human race can be shed of many of the mundane day to day activities, and allow us more time to be creative or enjoy activities that make us happy and advance our civilization.