The emergence of airplanes has shortened the distance between people. The rapid development of this mode of transportation has made the earth more like a village. However, the development of science and technology can only shorten the distance between people in time and space. As for the distance between good and evil, it is still a difficult problem. In life, we have seen many cases of extortion. In recent years, with the development of technology, more and more people are flying, and hijacking cases are also emerging one after another.
There are always people who do bad things in the world. Among the world's hijacking cases, the first one occurred 40 years ago. The first kidnapper on a plane in history, his name was D.B. Cooper. Through this hijacking, he obtained a ransom of 200,000, and finally he carried He jumped on a plane to escape with a huge sum of money. How is he doing now?
Passengers with bombs
Many years ago, airplanes entered the public eye as a new thing, and countries began to develop their own shipping industries. It can be said that at that time, the aircraft shipping field was a sunrise industry. On November 24, 1971, a Wednesday, at the Portland Airport in Oregon, passengers were preparing for their trips. This seemed to be an ordinary day, but because of the arrival of a passenger, it became a globally famous event.
At the Portland Airport on this day, Northwest Airlines will arrange Flight 305 to fly to Washington and stop in Seattle. Among the many passengers, there was a man named D.B. Cooper who looked like any other person. He walked to the plane through various security procedures and found his seat. He sat there quietly. His seat was seat 18c. Later, the plane started normally and flew in the sky as usual.
At about 3 p.m., D.B. Cooper called the flight attendant on the plane and said he wanted to order a glass of wine. When the flight attendant handed him his drink, D.B. Cooper slipped a note into the flight attendant's pocket, a flight attendant named Florence. Because of her beauty, she was often approached by passengers on the plane. In her opinion, D.B. Cooper's behavior may be because she coveted her beauty and kept his contact information to herself, so she did not give D.B. Cooper his contact information. Keep the note in your heart.
However, when the stewardess was about to leave, D.B. Cooper stopped her again and said something confusing. D.B. Cooper said, Miss, you'd better read this note, I have a bomb on me. Of course Florence didn't believe him, because in European and American countries, they always like to make such humorous jokes. From beginning to end, Florence regarded D.B. Cooper as an obsession with her own beauty. Until Florence returned to the kitchen and opened the note, the content on it made her blush: There is a bomb in the pocket I am carrying, and this plane has been hijacked by me!
After getting a huge sum of money, he jumped off the plane and disappeared
Florence realized through the note that the matter might not be that simple, so she immediately reported it to the captain, and the two I personally checked it out on the plane. They originally thought it was a humorous joke, but during the subsequent inspection, they discovered that D.B. Cooper was really a man carrying explosives, and all the passengers and crew on the plane were in danger. They were at a loss.
Looking at the reactions of the people around him, D.B. Cooper said very calmly that he only needed to give him 200,000 US dollars in cash, and he could not put any marks on the cash, and he did not want serial banknotes. Put the cash in Cooper's backpack, prepare two parachutes for him, and notify the ground control tower to prepare a refueling truck in advance so that it can be refueled as soon as the plane lands. If he fails to meet any of the conditions, he will set off the bomb and everyone on the plane will die together.
In order to ensure the safety of all flight attendants, the airport called the police on the ground. The police carefully considered it and followed D.B. Cooper's requirements one by one. The police also recorded the words on the given banknotes without his knowledge so that they could trace his whereabouts in the future. After he got the money he wanted, he made another request, asking the plane to change direction and head towards Mexico.
The reason why he did this was because he knew the structure and operation of airplanes very well. Even the conditions at underground airports were clear to him.
His escape from the plane sounds like a myth. The plane was flying at a height of 10,000 meters in the sky, and D.B. Cooper jumped, not only successfully escaping, but also evading the police for decades. of arrest. In fact, just after he got the money, the FBI used military aircraft to monitor his every move. However, after he jumped off the plane with the huge sum of money, it was as if he disappeared from the world and was never heard from again.
The intriguing current situation
After many years, the FBI still has not given up searching for his traces, and in the past few decades, relevant suspects have continued to surface, or There were imposters who turned themselves in, but unfortunately none of them were the real D.B. Cooper. In 1971, the robber who hijacked an airplane for the first time actually became a historical unsolved case that remains unsolved to this day. To put it another way, he risked his life to rob a huge sum of money. It seems impossible to leave the money alone. Therefore, the police followed this clue and set up a dragnet in the financial system, hoping to find out his whereabouts based on the font size that was originally recorded. However, the $200,000 has never appeared on the market since then.
The only time I saw some of these font sizes was not in a bustling market, but in the rainforest of Colombia. It was a little boy who was playing by the river and accidentally unearthed 290 US dollar bills worth 20 yuan. After verification by the police, these were the same batch of bills that were originally given to D.B. Cooper. The emergence of this clue prompted the police that D.B. Cooper might not be dead, but hiding in a corner.
Unfortunately, apart from the clue about the banknote’s font size, no further information about D.B. Cooper was found. As the first robber in the history of aircraft shipping, D.B. Cooper has left a deep impression on the public. After D.B. Cooper’s lessons, aircraft security procedures have become more stringent, and X-ray inspections will also be performed. . The film industry even filmed "Prison Break" based on his prototype, which became a hit in major European and American markets. There are also some well-known brands in the clothing market that use his name as a trademark to design western cowboy styles, which are widely popular in the market and become a popular style at that time.
Conclusion
In a social sense, although D.B. Cooper has not shown his whereabouts, the public has always remembered his incident, and he is still alive in this world. But from a biological point of view, he did not appear in front of others and had no consumption records. It was as if he had disappeared from the world. Some people speculate that even if D.B. Cooper did not have an accident when he jumped out of the plane, he would probably die in an unknown corner due to his old age.
However, the FBI has not given up searching for D.B. Cooper. The latest news is that it will use modern DNA technology to search for his whereabouts around the world. Perhaps with the blessing of this new science and technology, D.B. Cooper will reappear in the world. In fact, after many years of searching for him, it is no longer meaningful to sanction him personally, because at his current age, even if he is really found, he may not live long, and there is no way for the public to vent their anger.
For the FBI, its persistence in pursuing his traces is more like an affirmation of its own abilities, and it is also a sense of security and warning to the entire society. There is a saying in "Quotations of Zhu Zi": "If a person has shame, he can do something but not do something." The FBI's years of pursuit are a warning to the world that no crime can escape the sanction of justice.