Can't get the answer to this riddle...

Leeby · 26-08-2009 9:13am #1

Hey all,

I was wondering if anyone knows the answer to this riddle, it's on braingle.com but it's blocked to me in work, as is every other site I try, so if anyone knows the answer could you either put it here or PM me if you want to give people the chance to guess it. Thanks in advance!

Riddle...

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?

Mitch Connor · 26-08-2009 9:16am

Leeby wrote: »

Hey all,

I was wondering if anyone knows the answer to this riddle, it's on braingle.com but it's blocked to me in work, as is every other site I try, so if anyone knows the answer could you either put it here or PM me if you want to give people the chance to guess it. Thanks in advance!

Riddle...

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.

Rather weak answer imo. i mean

why would they even have faulty parachutes on board, and even if they did deliberately giving him one one be murder, or manslaughter, surely.