D.B. Cooper: The Only Unsolved Skyjacking in American History
On November 24, 1971 — the day before Thanksgiving — a man calling himself “Dan Cooper” bought a one-way ticket from Portland to Seattle. He paid cash. He boarded a Boeing 727. He ordered a bourbon and soda. And somewhere over the dense forests of southwest Washington State, in the middle of a rainstorm, wearing a business suit and a parachute, he stepped out of the back of the airplane at roughly 10,000 feet — and vanished completely. ...