Parachuting Criminal
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A man hijacks an aeroplane transporting both passengers and valuable cargo. After taking the cargo, the man demands two parachutes, puts one of them on, and jumps, leaving the other behind. Why did he want two?
Answer
If the officials thought he was jumping with a hostage, they would never risk giving him a faulty parachute.
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mosoh  
Jul 16, 2004
| Clever  |
canu
Jul 16, 2004
| On 24 November 1971, "Dan Cooper" hijacked NW Orient Flight 305, released the passengers in exchange for $200'000 and FOUR PARACHUTES (reason given in teaser answer), had the plane take off again, and jumped, never to be seen again. $5800 of the ransom money was eventually found. |
jimbo 
Jul 18, 2004
| Maybe he knew that the plane only carried 2 parachutes so he got both of them, disabled one and jumped with the other so that no-one could follow? |
(user deleted)
Sep 07, 2004
| oooh, I liked it except that in reality, it may turn out to be different. |
shortstopsmile
Oct 01, 2004
| Wow. Never thought about that. I thought it was that he had to carry his suitcase with him....   |
almondgrief
Nov 08, 2004
|  Interesting answer, but for some reason I thought the riddle went in a different direction where the plane carried "both passangers and cargo" meant there were 2 passangers and cargo was a third object... thereby making the "left the other behind" refer to the other passenger and not the parachute. Either way... clever. |
babygirl35
Dec 03, 2004
| I thought the same thing to almond greif |
alicewashere13
Jan 03, 2005
| i really like this one!!!!!  5 million thumbs up!!!! |
trickart262
Jan 05, 2005
| This was tricky. I thought maybe he didn't want anyon else to follow. Good one!!  |
sccr0524
Jan 05, 2005
| I still don't get it, but okay...don't call me stupid, I just didn't get it! |
(user deleted)
Jan 26, 2005
| Funny........that was a smart criminal! |
naviana
Jan 29, 2005
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chelsea_hope
Feb 18, 2005
| That was smart! I never would have thought of that. |
Riddler
Feb 22, 2005
| same here with almondgrief and babygirl35
except with the cargo
and i dont get it...
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knightf3
Mar 02, 2005
| Great teaser dumbell! I missed the answer but enjoyed the journey! |
dbeattie
Mar 06, 2005
| I thought maybe one of the "passengers" was really an accomplice. I read too much into everything! Nice job! |
whaleycm
Mar 28, 2005
| very unlikely....can we get some realistic riddles...this would be something that happens in a cheesey Keauna Reeves movie. |
cmt1214
May 18, 2005
| it was kinda lame!  |
sweetime
Jun 15, 2005
| why did he have to get the parachutes off officials? don't planes come with parachutes on them? |
trickster2005
Jul 11, 2005
| I read that one somewhere b4 but I still love it |
FerretGirl
Sep 22, 2005
| A bit con4sing but nice! |
stephiesd
Nov 10, 2005
| Just because you guys didn't like it, doesn't mean it's lame. I think it's a great teaser. |
pinay
Dec 29, 2005
| good teaser.. short but sweet lol |
trickyone
Jan 02, 2006
| I heard this one before |
Sherlock129
Jan 11, 2006
| I agree with canu about the "Dan Cooper" Incident. But I thought he was refered to as E.B Cooper. Anyways great teaser based on real story. |
shadow-x
Apr 03, 2006
| ive heared this one b4 in a teaser book and it was easy for me |
(user deleted)
Aug 20, 2006
| good but even thou i thought it was going to be something else,, still a good answer |
xdbtcp
Mar 15, 2007
| I thought he wanted the other one so he could take the chute out of the pack and fill it with the goods he was stealing... |
7mi27
Nov 08, 2008
| awesome teaser! I loved it! |
elentir
Aug 25, 2009
| What officials would ever sabotage a parachute merely for theft? I really don't think that would be standard operating procedure. |
katamaster
Aug 25, 2009
| This question was badly worded. I could not understand it. |
crazy10man
Aug 25, 2009
| Sherlock -- his name is D.B Cooper, and it's one of the most puzzling unsolved mysteries out there.
I figured he left the second parachute behind to make others think that he had an accomplice on board who would follow later if need be -- or something like that.
Pretty clever. |
triskelex
Aug 25, 2009
| commercial planes carring passengers don't have parachutes! |
glowtmickey
Aug 25, 2009
| Hijacking is a different crime than theft. |
bradon182001
Aug 25, 2009
| Interesting idea. Thanks for posting. |
donquixote235
Aug 25, 2009
| Interesting sidenote to the D.B. Cooper story, taken straight from Wikipedia:
"It also revealed that he requested four parachutes—two main back chutes and two reserve chest chutes. Authorities inadvertently supplied Cooper with a "dummy" reserve chute—an unusable parachute that is sewn shut for classroom demonstration. The dummy chute was not left behind on the plane, and some theorize Cooper did not realize it was not functional.[53] This piece of information had been revealed in a 1979 episode of TV documentary series In Search of.... The other reserve parachute, which was a functional parachute, was popped open and the shrouds were cut and supposedly used to secure the money bag."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.B._Cooper |
elentir
Aug 25, 2009
| "Hijacking is a different crime than theft."
I still don't think that any authority would intentionally risk the life of a criminal unless other lives were at risk. Unless this can be demonstrated, I think that making this assumption is far-fetched. |
FatHead
Aug 25, 2009
| Nice, very clever!  |
FatHead
Aug 25, 2009
| To sccr: If the officials did think he was jumping alone, they could stop him easily by giving him either a fake parachute or one that doesn't work. Since he requested TWO parachutes, they both had to work, because he might be taking a hostage, and (of course) the officials couldn't risk the hijacker giving the hostage (if there was a hostage) a faulty chute. |
xdbtcp
Aug 25, 2009
| I thought he wanted the other one so he could take the chute out of the pack and fill it with the goods he was stealing... |
UptheHill
Aug 25, 2009
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auntiesis
Aug 25, 2009
| Clever crook. Great teaser. |
dalfamnest 
Aug 25, 2009
| I thought the second was so they thought he had an accomplice as yet unknown, and the officials would therefore not try to capture him. Close. |
ramaprasanna
Aug 26, 2009
| Fantastic riddle. Never could have got to the answer by myself. |
KiraKaty
Nov 15, 2009
| It's simple, really, to get the answer.
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MusiK
Jan 24, 2010
| Smart smart |
Babe
Aug 26, 2012
| Kirakaty and I got the answer. It was not that hard. loved it! |
blargent
Aug 26, 2012
| Stupid and lame |
iggy39
Aug 26, 2012
| I thought it was for the cargo. Hard one, but I'm not the brightest bulb around. |
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