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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.
FBI artist rendering of so-called D.B. Cooper, who hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 out of Portland (Oregon), demanded and received ransom money upon landing in Seattle, then parachuted...
D.B. Cooper (Dan Cooper), criminal who in 1971 hijacked a plane traveling from Portland to Seattle and later parachuted out of the aircraft with the ransom money. An extensive manhunt ensued, but he was never identified or caught, resulting in one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in U.S history.
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Jan 30, 2021 · A prominent suspect in the infamous D.B. Cooper skyjacking case died earlier this month in Northern California, according to reports. He was 94. The 1971 skyjacking by a man using the name Dan...
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Oct 26, 2023 · A dazzling piece of evidence may end the mystery of D. B. Cooper. While the FBI closed the notorious cold case, one man says he knows exactly how to solve it.
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Jan 10, 2024 · The unknown skyjacker—he called himself Dan Cooper, but the media misreported the name as D.B. Cooper, which stuck— paid $18.52 cash for a one-way ticket to Portland and boarded Northwest...
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Nov 25, 2021 · Fifty years ago Wednesday, a man who gave the name Dan Cooper jumped out of an airplane with $200,000 in cash. He was never seen again, at least according to investigators.
