The Unsolved Mystery Of D.B. Cooper
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6 pages in length. Thanksgiving Day, 1971, found people across the country - and likely around the world - discussing the daring hijacking pulled off the day before by Dan Cooper, a passenger on flight 305 of Northwest Airlines who - while in the process of paying the flight attendant for his drinks also handed her an extortion note - jumped ship, so to speak, with $200,000 ransom money and - as far as anyone can say with certainty - was never seen or heard from again. Indeed, there are more than a few theories about what ultimately happened after Cooper leapt from the Boeing 747 with little more than a standard parachute, however, any concrete evidence has long eluded the authorities. The interminable dead ends pursued by the FBI served to fuel the fire of speculation and intrigue into a case that had authorities from all ranks and departments combing "dense hemlock forests north of Portland" (Pasternack, 2000) only to come up defeated and empty-handed five months later. Cooper has since metamorphosed into a folk icon of sorts after more than three and a half decades of a case that will, in all likelihood, never be solved. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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