On November 24, 1971, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper jumped from a jet with $200,000 in ransom money. He was never found, the FBI says.
ILLUSTRATION · AIOn November 24, 1971, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper parachuted from a jet with $200,000 in ransom and was never found.
The man bought a one-way ticket on Northwest Orient Flight 305 from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle with cash. Soon after 3:00 p.m. he handed a stewardess a note saying he had a bomb in his briefcase, and demanded four parachutes and $200,000 in twenty-dollar bills, the FBI says.
In Seattle he exchanged the flight's 36 passengers for the money and parachutes. The plane took off again, and somewhere between Seattle and Reno, a little after 8:00 p.m., he jumped from the back with a parachute and the ransom. In 1980 a young boy found a rotting package of twenty-dollar bills, $5,800 in all, that matched the ransom serial numbers. The FBI says the name 'D.B.' was apparently a myth created by the press, and in July 2016 it redirected the case's resources to other priorities.
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