Originally Posted by rockinbbar
D.B. Cooper jumped out at 10,000 feet.

It's doable. But he jumped out into a severe storm too.

The case that has me scratching my head was the teenager that crawled up in the landing gear of the jetliner and made the trip to Hawaii...at altitudes and temperatures he survived in... How the hell does that happen?


The teenager ...

It wasn't as cold in the wheel wells as has been reported and the lack of oxygen did not get to point where it was lethal. Just a guess but the side of wheel well he was snuggled up to was a pressurized heated compartment. His metabolism, breathing, and heartbeat slowed down but not to the point where it killed him. He wasn't exposed to the outside atmosphere and that's where people get it wrong.

It's kind of like surviving a drowning in cold water, except you don't die, and you don't need resuscitation.

A person can survive cold and oxygen depleted conditions for awhile. He did it. That's the proof.