New Zealand Couple React to The Strange Disappearance of DB Cooper. MOST INSANE Unsolved Mystery!

What's up, Nzetters? And welcome back to another

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ion video today. We are going to see something very interesting. This is a story that caught our attention. We've heard very, very vaguely about The Legend, yes, but no. I don't really know any of the details, so I think this is it. The first time I heard about this was when I thought of Loki in a Marvel movie. I think he was pretending to be this DB Cooper character. Oh, really, yeah, so it's like. the first one, I think that's where Denzel and I got our first insight into it, okay, yeah, and then I think we might have mentioned it to you, yeah, I heard I heard the legend, you know a little bit. a bit Yes, but apparently yes, there is a 29 minute documentary that includes all the details and lets us know exactly what happened.

I want to know why it's so important, yeah, okay, shoot, look for DB Cooper, they're still looking for what? Okay, we'll keep looking until we find him or find out what happened. Wow, that sounds like it's pretty old. Yes, yes, with recording and audio. Yes, it happened years ago. I don't know, on the afternoon of November 24, 1971. A middle-aged man. A man carrying a briefcase walked into Portland International Airport and bought a one-way ticket to Seattle, Washington. The man identified himself as Dan Cooper and, along with 36 other passengers and a crew of six, soon boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 305.

Once on board, Cooper came into his own. comfortable in the middle of the last row of seats on the right side of the cabin, he ordered a drink and smoked because it was the 70s, once the flight was cleared for departure, Cooper turned around and handed an envelope to the stewardess Florence Schaffner who was inside. The envelope was a note with a handwritten message saying that she had a shaft of bonds there, reluctantly she sat down next to it and glimpsed what appeared to be eight sticks of dynamite inside oh what a fish. Cooper's demands were quite simple: he wanted two hundred thousand dollars in cash and four parachutes, he also demanded that a fuel truck be ready to refuel the plane once they landed in Seattle in case they did not meet his demands, he threatened to cite to do the work on the flight in Singapore.

Shafter went and formed the cabin crew while another flight attendant by the name of Tina Maklow remained on a Cooper's Side using a telephone in the back of the cabin. Maklow acted as an intermediary between Cooper and the rest of the flight crew during the rest of the hijacking, which is so terrifying. For the next hour and a half, Flight 305 maintained a holding pattern near Seattle as local and federal authorities rushed to get the rescue and the four parachutes were still flying. One thousand twenty-dollar bills were collected from a local bank, while the owner of a nearby skydiving school provided them. the shooting at 5:45 p.m. m., more than two hours after its scheduled arrival, Flight 305 finally landed in Seattle, by which time it was well after sunset and the plane was taken to a remote section of the runway once the flight came to a stop. and the parachutes were given to Maklow, who then brought them back on board in exchange, Cooper allowed two of the flight attendants, as well as all the passengers, to disembark, many of whom had not yet realized that the flight had been hijacked.

Oh wow, Cooper told Montlow to report. To the captain who wanted to fly to Mexico City, they had to fly with the landing gear down with the flaps at 15 degrees and below 10,000 feet, the cabin lights had to be off and the aft staircase that opened from the bottom of the The fuselage was to remain extended. Two of Cooper's demands could not be met. First, the flight configuration he had requested would not allow a nonstop flight to Mexico City, as Arch Cooper proposed a refueling stop in Phoenix, Yuma, or Sacramento before they arrived. everyone agreed in Reno Nevada second that it was not possible to depart with an extended ventral ladder Cooper agreed to retract the ladders on the condition that Makro would stay by their side and show them how to extend them once the plane was parked for al

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two hours due to Due to complications with refueling, Flight 305 returned to the air at 7:36 p.m. m., less than five minutes after takeoff, Cooper told Maklow to go to the cockpit and then, from that moment on, he was not to be disturbed the last time he saw Cooper.

He was standing in the middle of the aisle as if he was preparing to jump, Maklow joined the rest of the crew and closed the cabin door behind her and about three hours later, Flight 305 landed safely in Reno, Once the flight stopped, the crew carefully ventured to the rear of the cabin, but there was no sign of Cooper or the bomb. The aft ladder had extended in mid-flight and was slightly damaged upon landing. He's gone. It seemed like there was only one explanation for the kidnappers' absence at any point among them. Seattle and Reno Cooper had strapped themselves to a parachute, descended the stairs, and slipped into the darkness of the night.

Crazy, that's crazy, that's so crazy, yeah, where is it? As soon as it became clear that Cooper was no longer on board, doses of FBI agents converged on the plane only to discover a disappointing amount of physical evidence a black tie with a clip eight cigarette butts that's the DNA after four parachutes it's not Everything Cooper left behind evidently brought the ransom and the briefcase with him in interviews conducted the night of the kidnapping. Cooper was described by the crew and passengers as a white man with brown eyes and dark hair. He appeared to be in his 40s and was wearing a dark trench coat, a dark suit, a white shirt, a black tie and dark shoes shortly after boarding.

He also made a pair of sunglasses. He looks like a businessman. This description the FBI produced the first of several composite sketches before they could mount a search. However, the FBI had to find out when Cooper jumped ship, but that was easier said than done. Four crew members witnessed Cooper jump from the plane, nor did the pilots of the two fighter jets that escorted the flight between Seattle and Reno, which isn't too surprising given that it was the middle of the night, although the flight crew reported something

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. The last communication with a kidnapper occurred between approximately 8 and 5 p.m.

When they used the intercom to offer assistance which Cooper declined within the next 10 minutes, the crew experienced what they described as a sway or vibration of the aircraft at a time when the crew suspected it. it could have been produced by Cooper's jump and a later reenactment of the kidnapping supported that conclusion, okay, that took care of the trail, but what about wear and tear? While Cooper was very explicit about the flight configuration and destination, he never specified any type of route, in fact. Cooper became so impatient with the slow refueling in Seattle that he dismissed the captain's request to find a flight plan and simply told him to put the show on the road, so the captain decided to fly along a known airway. like Victor 23 without any intervention.

Cooper using Vector 23 as a guide, authorities estimated that the

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likely occasion of the flight at the approximate time of the jump was about 40 kilometers north of Portland and that is why at dawn the FBI mounted an impressive search operation using helicopters, planes and ground rooms, wow, the problem was even whether the estimated rescue point was accurate. Cooper's eventual landing or drop zone was much more difficult to identify. The vaguely defined search area covered a vast expanse of mountainous desert occluded by dense forest, so it was truly like finding a needle in a haystack. Apart from that base terrain, the search was further complicated by low temperatures and inclement weather.

While they persisted for days despite their best efforts, authorities never managed to find a single trace of Cooper or the items he brought with him, but how would they do it? he would have survived if he was that remote and had his bag of cash like all his parachute and everything he has. I have so many questions that we made little to no progress in early December, the FBI focused its attention on the two hundred thousand dollar ransom. The money had been raised from the Seattle First National Bank, which maintained a two-hundred-fifty-thousand-dollar bailout package just for that vocation, so the serial numbers of the ten-thousand-twenty-dollar bills given to Cooper have been documented in advance. , which were quickly made available to financial institutions, government agencies and the general public.

The intention was to make it as difficult as possible for Cooper to spend his Northwest Airlines money, and several newspapers even began offering rewards to anyone who could find a note with a matching series number oh, despite these efforts, no one did until almost a decade later, are you kidding me? In the early 1980s, a young man named Brian Ingram was building a campfire on a small beach in southern Washington while he dug in the sand. Ingram discovered three wads of cash totaling 5,880 after hearing about the infamous plane hijacking. Ingram's parents took the degraded bundles from Seville to the FBI.

To raise many more questions than he answered in ten years, the important thing was how the money ended up so far from the Drop Zone. Much water. So on this map, it might be tempting to think that Cooper simply dropped some of the money. which then fell into the Lewis River, the bundles could have been swept downstream by the Columbia River before finally being washed ashore at Tina Baller, which is the name of the beach. Tina maklow Tina bar. Anyway, the problem with this idea is that the Columbia River flows in the opposite direction, this is as if some, including members of the FBI, evaluated the initial assessment of the drop zone, for example, if the drop zone was much further southeast, near a river called the Washougal River, it is conceivable, although unlikely, that the money floated all the way to Tinabar; alternatively, it is possible that the packages would simply have landed on the beach if the flight path was further To the west, even so, natural explanations struggled to explain how three potentially free-falling or free-floating independent packages of cash would be much more scattered in the same place in the same yes, to complicate matters, the sediments of the river bed They were excavated and dumped in Tinabor as part of a dredging operation in 1974 and according to an analysis, the money was discovered on top of this layer of sediment, that's right, that would mean the money.

The tinabor stopped sometime after 1974, but a re-examination of that analysis found that what was believed to be a layer of deposited sediment could have actually been a layer of perfectly natural clay and not only that, but the sediment was clearly thrown some distance. where the money was discovered from, furthermore, when Ingram discovered the packages, the elastic bands holding them together were still intact, this is significant because experiments conducted in 2009 revealed that this brand of elastic bands could not withstand outdoor exposure or in the water for over a year, so wow, the packages were somehow protected from the elements in which they should have been buried in a bar within a year of the altitude, yes, that would have been buried right away.

The likely explanation, therefore, appears to be that Cooper or someone else deliberately buried the money. Cooper survived and buried the money himself. Did anyone else bury the money when they stumbled upon Cooper's remains? If there is an explanation that does not require human intervention, it has managed to elude researchers for decades. Suffice it to say that this is a

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, yes, since then. Ingram's discovery in 1980, both Tina Barr and the land around the Washougal River have been the subject of numerous searches, but to date there has been no sign of Cooper and the rest of the money.

I just don't want to like solve it, solve it somehow. It was frustrating because of the unresolved issues at the beginning, it was sued by many because Cooper didn't survive like the daring Escape, it wouldn't be a very exciting conclusion to this story, but that's the thing about stories, they're usually much more exciting than the reality, while there is no compelling evidence or not against Cooper's survival. The assumption that he fell to his death is not without merit when Cooper leaped into the darkness. Flight 305 was passing through a frigid storm at approximately 170 knots, 10,000 feet above southern Washington.

The wind was so violent that it tore a sign off the AFT staircase which was later recovered in 1978 almost directly below the estimated flight path. Oh wow, he wasn't dressed for the occasion, that would be an understatement, meanwhile, the ground beneath them was darkened bymultiple cloud layers, which likely means Cooper jumped without knowing his precise location, even if he could see the ground and had a specific drop zone in mind, the parachute he selected was not airshipable, meaning he couldn't direct his descent into a specific language, including any potential coordination with an accomplice stationed on the ground While Cooper expressed some familiarity with parachutes, his actual level of proficiency is up for debate, it is widely believed that Cooper demanded two pairs of parachutes, two primary and two reserve, to make the authorities believe that they intended to take a hostage which is precisely what happened when the FBI contemplated, but ultimately decided not to sabotage the shoot, as they did not want the very smart ones to get them.

They inadvertently provided Cooper with a non-functional dummy intended for training purposes. This mishap appears to have gone unnoticed by Cooper because that dummy shot was one of two missing from the plane, but Cooper chose the older and technically inferior parachute of the two main shots provided, so in both cases it appears that Cooper took the worst possible choice, oh, butThere are other ways to interpret this information, for example, Cooper may have used the dummy session not as a reserve but as a means of securing the money bag. In fact, that's precisely what Cooper tried to do with a functional research session first. placing the money in the canopy of the shoots before removing some of the suspension lines and wrapping them around the bag, perhaps they used the dummy shot for a similar purpose and Cooper's decision to use the older primary shot is not necessarily an indication of inexperience, it could also be a sign of familiarity because the shot he left behind was a fancy civilian shot while the one he used was a military shot the argument is that Cooper could have been trained like say a paratrooper another military shot because that's the one he was most familiar with wow, another reason to suspect Cooper had a military background while the flight was on hold near Seattle.

Cooper mentioned that McCord Air Force Base was only 20 minutes from Seattle Tacoma Airport, how would he know that at the time? That was an accurate assessment and could suggest military background, aside from possible military connections. Cooper may even have had ties to the Central Intelligence Agency. You see, the type of plane Cooper chose to hijack a Boeing 727 was also used by the CIA covertly. dropping agents and supplies during the Vietnam War tasks for which the Boeing 727 was uniquely qualified due to its distinctive ladder, so it is fairly safe to assume that Cooper chose to hijack a Boeing 727 specifically because it provided him with a relatively safe escape piece. if he found out about it. this from the CIA or the inclusion of the Kingdom independently is another question that did not have to open a door, yes, Cooper chose to hijack a flight operated by Northwest Airlines, apparently it was a coincidence when Tina Maklow asked Cooper about his motives, He responded that it's not because they have a grudge against their airline, it's just because I have a grudge.

He further clarified that that flight 305 was in the right place at the right time. That's so open-ended, yet it's clear that Cooper came prepared. He seemed to know a lot about airplanes in aviation he seemed to be familiar with the local terrain he kept a low profile to avoid panic he covered his eyes with a pair of goggles to hide his identity he left very little evidence and demanded four parachutes to break into the assumption that he was taking the hostage, he was even clever enough to recover the note he had initially given to Florence Schaffner, other than the name he wrote on her plane ticket, there are no other samples of Cooper's handwriting, but to Despite all his planning and cunning, it seems that Cooper didn't put enough thought into his eventual escape - not only did he not specify a route, but he was forced to make a last-minute destination change from Mexico City - yes, that It does not require foreign equipment such as a pair of boots. helmet or overalls, he could even have specified that The Ransom be delivered in larger denominations to make him lighter and less cumbersome for transporters, assuming he survived the fall and reached the ground safely, then he could be about to break through through a partially dense. snow covered forest in nothing but moccasins and a trench coat in late November.

I get the distinct impression that Cooper's Escape was much more of a leap of faith than a not carefully executed leap; On the other hand, authorities never received a missing person report that matched the description. of Cooper after the kidnapper, this could suggest that Cooper survived and quickly and quietly resumed his normal routine; Furthermore, other honey kidnappers have performed similar stunts and many of them survived even if they were quickly apprehended. Ultimately the simplest explanation for how three wads of money ended up in Tina's bar is human intervention at the end of the day, most of This is based on, oh, I mean, several oppositions without any concrete evidence of Cooper's death, this leaves the door open to the much more exciting proposition that he actually survived, yes, yes, he would have had his suitcase with his bomb inside, he would have had his bag with his money and other shots, so he jumped with a bunch of stuff in the wind behind the FBI if everything had been a man in Portland with initials DB and last name Cooper, this Cooper was quickly eliminated as a suspect, but due to a mix-up on the part of the press, the name Dan Cooper was confused with DB Cooper and the rest is history.

Oh, Dan Cooper is most likely a pseudonym. Comic series of the same name, the comic is written in French and focuses on a Canadian pilot named Dan Cooper, while the comic was not translated into English or sold in the United States before 1971. It was available in Canada for the French-speaking population Since American and Canadian accents can be difficult to distinguish, it is possible that Cooper, who was described as having no discernible accent, was a bilingual Canadian. This could even be backed up by something Cooper might have said, as you see when the captain relayed Cooper's demands to the air traffic control he used. the phrase negotiable American currency it seems doubtful that an American citizen would buy American currency, so maybe Cooper was North America, the problem is that we don't know if this is a direct quote from Cooper or a paraphrase of the captain, yes, for example Notes taken by the crew during the kidnapping simply contain the phrase negotiable currency, while testimonies provided by the crew after the kidnapping include phrases such as two hundred thousand dollars in cash and one US currency in circulation, so Cooper could have been Canadian. and could have taken his name from The Dan.

Cooper Comics, just as he might have been American and taken his name from something or someone else since the kidnapping took place and in that time thousands of suspects have been questioned and investigated, obviously it would be impossible to cover them all here, but take a look look at some of the people who at one time or another have been suspected of being DB Cooper, here we go, take your pick from the lineup. This is crazy. I know. He drank straw first became a suspect in 1978 and on the surface it seems. as a strong candidate, he was a decorated army paratrooper and helicopter pilot, he had experience with explosives, he had an extensive criminal record, he had an uncle named John Cooper who was an avid paratrooper, he was kicked out of the army just a few months before the kidnapping , which might suggest a move to the garage after all, the kidnapper said he had growled when confronted by journalists and private investigators.

The idiot didn't outright confirm or deny that he was D.B Cooper, instead he would say things like I could have been it or not rule it out. Myself, well, on the other hand, Rank Straw had light-colored eyes, which Cooper didn't notice, more significantly. Rackstraw was only 28 years old at the time of the kidnapping. This is well outside the range of ages reported by the crew and passengers, most of whom believed. Cooper was at their meeting maybe it was his uncle thanks John Cooper Kenneth Christensen first became a suspect in 2003 when his brother noticed certain parallels between him and Cooper Christensen had served briefly as a paratrooper in World War II and since 1953 had served for Northwest Airlines, as a mechanic and flight attendant, he was 45 years old at the time of the hijacking.

He was left-handed, which Cooper could have been, for example. Cooper used his left hand to interact with his briefcase and his tie clip. What was left on board had a Thai brooch applied from the left shortly before he died in 1994. Christensen had supposedly told his brother that there is something you need to know, but I can't tell you. After his death, his family discovered more than two hundred thousand dollars in his bank. Stories that stopped everything Florence Shaffner stated that Christensen's photographs bore a strong resemblance to Cooper, on the other hand, Christensen did not match Cooper's physical description, he was shorter and lighter, while Shafner did see a strong resemblance, she commented that Cooper had more hair and that is supported by the composite sketches, that's how there was nothing to mention about the large sums of money he had made simply by selling land, well, it turned out to be 200 000.

Those became suspects in the year 90 when he kidnapped twice as many. ladder very similar to the DB copycat due to significant overlap between the two hijackings some believe they must have been committed by the same person McCoy used a fake name used a fake hand grenade to threaten the crew used handwritten notes to issue Their demands both McCoy and Cooper use the phrase not funny as a warning to the crew McCoy demanded five hundred thousand dollars in cash and four parachutes McCoy also saved the back of the plane once they passed over his hometown in the state of Utah apart from the manner Similarly McCoy had also served in the Vietnam War as a demolitions expert and helicopter pilot.

McCoy survived the fall and managed to evade authorities for two full days before being arrested and sentenced to 45 years in prison before his death in 1974. McCoy refused. to confirm or deny that it was DB Cooper, on the other hand, McCoy was an avid recreational skydiver and even came prepared with a helmet and skydiving jumpsuit, gave very specific instructions on the flight path, in addition to the fake hand grenade, McCoy also used a discharge. gun to threaten the crew was unable to recover one of the notes he had given to a flight attendant. He was only 29 years old at the time of the kidnapping and the three flight attendants were fairly certain that McCoy was not Cooper, while there are significant parallels between these two cases McCoy could have simply been an impersonator who had read about DB Cooper in the news.

Wayne Weber first became a suspect in 1995, when shortly before his death he told his wife I have a secret to tell you. I'm Dan Cooper, after her deathbed confession, the way Weber recalled a series of fascinating details, according to her, that they found a bench similar to the one used in the kidnapping, according to her, who had suffered an injury to the knee after jumping from a plane, who allegedly had a nightmare about leaving his fingerprints on the steps of the AFT and a year before the money was discovered, the Athena bar, who had supposedly made a quick visit to the same place, Additionally, Weber was a World War II veteran, had an extensive criminal history, matched the physical description, and was 47 years old in 1971.

But, on the other hand, Weber's fingerprints did not match any of the prints collected from the flight 305 although, to be fair, there is no way to know if any of those prints actually belong to Cooper, plus Weber's DNA did not match a DNA sample collected from the Thai brooch, but again there is no way to know whether the DNA and the Thai brooch really came from the kidnapper and not someone else. What's so frustrating is that the FBI probably had a much better source of DNA at one point if you remember that eight-six cigarettes were collected from the scene and there's a good chance they were all laced with Cooper's DNA?

The problem is that the evidence was lost at some point and hasn't turned up since. Oh, are you kidding me? What's next, people, William Smith first? became a suspect in 2018 Smith served in the Navy during World War II and likely had some experience with skydiving He was 43 years old at the time of the kidnapping He had dark brown eyes Matched a physical description Shared some resemblance to a composite sketches , okay, you're right here, a speculative sketch of an older DB Cooper, a studentcalled IRA Daniel Cooper, who died in World War II, attended the same high school as Smith Smith worked as a groundskeeper for a railroad company for most of his life, but in 1970, the company declared bankruptcy as as a result of Smith losing his pension, which could suggest a reason why he might, for example, have developed a grudge against the airline industry for its role in bringing about the downfall of the rail transportation industry.

It is also speculated that Smith could have used his knowledge of railroad networks to get on a train and escape undetected, on the other hand Smith spent his entire life in the northeastern United States since the kidnapping occurred on the other side of the country and was committed by someone who at least seemed to be familiar with some local terrain Smith is not the most ideal candidate, he is quite far away the fact that Smith worked as a yard keeper is interesting, you see the tide in Cooper Left Behind was examined recently using an electron microscope that discovered several metallic particles, some of These particles, especially pure titanium, are quite rare in 1971.

This could suggest that Cooper worked as a manager in some type of chemical or metallurgical facility or possibly in a Rayyard. Wow, okay, that's another layer every time they make one. I think, oh, it's definitely this one. boy, yeah, I hope there is a limited selection of suspects that illustrates how difficult it is to be sure when you have so little evidence to work with for these five individuals who look nothing alike, but any of them could be DB Cooper. Wow, Cooper was really in the middle of it! He was 40 years old or just looked old for his age.

Yes, did Cooper really serve in the military? Which of these Skechers looked most like Cooper in 2016? The FBI had to admit defeat and officially closed the case unless someone stumbled upon Cooper's remains or managed to track down the rest of the money, there seems to be little hope for resolution. Dave Cooper survived. I have no idea, but as long as that possibility cannot be ruled out, the legend of DB Cooper will certainly persist. Wow, that was crazy. What channel is that? Be man, what a great channel. I like his production, yes I like his animation and he's very good at explaining all the information, but wow, I'm thinking about becoming a private investigator and figuring it out.

There are probably hundreds of people out there already. who are still trying to figure it out to this day it's just fascinating wow right that was unreal that's just fascinating I totally lean on the side of him surviving and getting away with it I think he survived yeah I like it because it's okay if he does would have done, you know, taken the good shot and the bad shot, if you try to use that to have the bag as if they had found at least one of the things, her body or the suitcase or the money wrapped in the fake shoes, but the another thing that needs to be explained is that if he threw the money attached to the dummy shot and he just threw it and landed, he would have had to go get that money himself, yes, in the dark, so what if in reality will never jump and be?

I think if he looked like he had jumped but in reality he was hiding in the plane that they landed on and everyone's like, "Oh my God, he would jump like they would." I think they would have searched the plane like every nook and cranny and I also don't think you have access to the luggage compartment from inside the cabin or anything, so I don't think there's any way you could do something like that. I mean, he would have been in the bathroom or you know. something that's the best you can do like those old airplanes that might have random compartments or something like that you never know no I think it definitely jumped yeah but look I like to think outside the box I'm fine so what?

What if he never actually jumped and was on the plane when it landed and then ran away? I guess when you don't know the end of the story anything is possible, oh man that was unreal, that was crazy, have you seen it? This, do you have such crazy theories? You do not like? Do you know DB Cooper? I can also say: are you DB Cooper? Yes, no, but I can say that. Why hasn't a movie of this type been made? Yes I like it. the other The Greenbrier because there is no ending without which you can't have a movie like oh you can't have what you can have like a that will continue never yes because it would just annoy people yeah, they would say oh no they I have to create the index, of course , yeah, every story needs something good and then they'll say, No, yeah, you need to know, yeah, we need to know, we need to know anyway, guys, if you liked it, make sure you hit the like button. always and tell us your theories, yes, tell us what you think, tell us what you believe, he survived, he jumped, he escaped, what happened, he didn't survive, my theory is that he jumped and hid on the plane they landed and that's when he escaped well , my theory is that he jumped, ran away and lived happily ever after and that Berry, I think must have tricked him to where he landed in Portland and buried the cash on the road along the river bank as a Insurance, to what do you mean Tina bar, yes, I think she was.

Do you think he buried it there and then came back to get it, but did I miss something? No, no, I don't think he buried the entire amount of cash. I think he hid some cash. here as an insurance spirit, like you know, insurance reserve, yeah, so if you ever lose the cash or whatever, he knew he could come back and get like five thousand dollars, yeah, because remember, 200 thousand dollars back then, in those days, it was quite a lot, it was like 2? million probably something like that yeah so I think it was a safe job anyway guys yeah again let us know in the comments what you thought and we love you and we'll see in the next one bye thank you. you