D. B. Cooper and Flight 305: Reexamining the Hijacking and Disappearance

Haven't finished but thought I'd share my thoughts. It starts with a narative about facts in case. So far so good. Now I wasn't a great mathematics student amd I'm afraid I'm gonna get lost later in the book. A lot of graphs and computations. They may be great for some but I'm araid I'm gonna be lost. The writer is a mathematics professor. Good read so far!

Written without warmth. It reads more like a case study, good if you're personally trying to solve the case.

The failure to resolve the 1971 Cooper aircraft hijacking is at least partially due to the FBI being ill-served by some of the organizations and individuals it relied on for expert advice in the initial investigation. The end result is that very little valid or verifiable information on the hijacking exists today and even less is in the public domain.Dr. Edwards' book is the most detailed, comprehensive, and professional analysis of the hijacking in existence. It is a masterpiece and is the only book on this matter that you will ever need. If Dr. Edwards had been the FBI consultant on the hijacking in 1971, the whole event would have been resolved within a year.

Walter Cronkite gives the exact flight path. The plane took rout V2 the normal rout. The plane never went over Portland. The FBI said that Cooper was going to blow up the plane. There is no reason to take it over the most populated area of Washington and Oregon... No logic involved. Incredible research!!!!!

The author carefully provides the facts as known in well designed prose, tables and figures.

Whomever doesn't appreciate the research and technical data in this book probably has Down Syndrome.

Great book. Excellent quality design of pages, pictures, charts, etc. in terms of weight of the paper, fonts, clarity of pics. Would be a great coffee table book. Well researched. Very detailed on the DB Cooper crime. Might not be perfect for a beginner on the case, but I would certainly recommend it if you like true crime and DB Cooper. Well worth the price. A lot of source material from FBI files. Very comprehensive.

I have read many books on DB Cooper as well as watched numerous YouTube videos and interviews.This book is by far the most detailed and covers many facts I never knew.This is a must read.

This is not a read-through book; there is no flowing narrative. It is a microscopic analysis of one of the most intriguing events of modern times, a hijacking and disappearance that has never been resolved. Chapter by chapter the story is told of how an individual who called himself Dan Cooper managed to take over an airliner, then disappear from it during flight with what then (1971) was a large sum of money. Just how detailed is the study may be seen from the fact a chapter is devoted to the tiny plankton living in sodden bank notes found on a river bank a decade later. 45 years on the FBI gave up; the author suggests they should not have done so because he considers they were looking in the wrong place. As for Mr 'Cooper,' did he survive the jump from the plane, or did he not? This book is a classic.