Posted On: February 20th 2026, 04:00 pm
In November 1971, a man using the name “Dan Cooper” boarded a Northwest Orient Airlines flight from Portland to Seattle. During the flight, he calmly informed a flight attendant that he had a bomb and demanded $200,000 in cash along with parachutes. After the plane landed in Seattle, authorities delivered the money, passengers were released, and the aircraft took off again with only crew members onboard.
Somewhere over the Pacific Northwest, Cooper lowered the rear stairs of the Boeing 727 and parachuted into the night — carrying the ransom money. He was never seen again. Despite decades of FBI investigation, countless suspects, and even partial ransom bills discovered years later along a riverbank, D.B. Cooper’s true identity and fate remain unknown.
More than 50 years later, the D.B. Cooper hijacking stands as one of the most daring and mysterious unsolved cases in aviation history.
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