Tuesday, January 01, 2008

D. B. Cooper

A legend and a mystery here in the NW.
clipped from news.yahoo.com



AP

FBI makes new bid to find 1971 skyjacker


PORTLAND, Ore. - The FBI is making a new stab at identifying mysterious skyjacker Dan Cooper, who bailed out of an airliner in 1971 and vanished, releasing new details that it hopes will jog someone's memory. The man calling himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a Northwest flight in Portland for a flight to Seattle on the night of Nov, 24, 1971, and commandeered the plane, claiming he had dynamite.

In Seattle, he demanded and got $200,000 and four parachutes and demanded to be flown to Mexico. Somewhere over southwestern Washington, he jumped out the plane's tail exit with two of the chutes.
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1 comment:

Julie said...

unrelated but interesting: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/01/01/digital.tv.ap/index.html