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D. B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, was an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971. During the flight from Portland, Oregon , to Seattle , Washington, Cooper told a flight attendant he had a bomb, and demanded $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to ...
The Last Master Outlaw: How He Outfoxed the FBI Six Times—but Not a Cold Case Team is a 2016 non-fiction book written by Thomas J. Colbert and Tom Szollosi. It details the results of a five-year investigation of a suspect in the 1971 D. B. Cooper hijacking case.
Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. (December 7, 1942 – November 9, 1974) was an American aircraft hijacker.McCoy hijacked a United Airlines passenger jet for ransom in April 1972. . Due to a similar modus operandi, McCoy has been proposed as the person responsible for the November 1971 hijacking of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, attributed to the still-unidentified "D. B. Coop
Chanté and Rick McCoy III claim their late father, Richard McCoy Jr., is the ever-elusive Boeing hijacker DB Cooper after allegedly finding his parachute hidden in their home, according to a new ...
In 1971 a mysterious man claimed he had a bomb in a briefcase, hijacked a Boeing plane and parachuted from that plane after extorting $200,000 from the FBI.
The 50-year-old cold case of D.B. Cooper may have seen a new development after an amateur sleuth claims to have found the parachute used by the infamous, yet still unidentified plane hijacker.
D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! is a four-part documentary mini-series released by Netflix in 2022. [1] The series discusses the history and investigation of the Northwest Orient Airlines hijacking by the man known as D. B. Cooper in 1971 [2] and includes interviews with investigators and journalists involved with investigating the case.
A parachute that was on the plane but not used by the hijacker — who became known as D.B. Cooper — is going on display Sept. 22 at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma.