November 24, 1972: The Mysterious 'DB Cooper' Hijacking of Northwest Flight 305 Ben Judge - MoneyWeek
go to original November 24, 2014

One of the earliest, and still the greatest, examination of the Cooper case is a 1979 installment of Leonard Nimoy’s cheesy/sublime 1979 investigational series In Search Of. (History Channel)

On the day before America’s Thanksgiving holiday in 1972, a man dressed in a suit and tie, and calling himself Dan Cooper, boarded Northwest Airlines’ flight 305 from Portland to Seattle. Soon after take-off, he handed a note to one of the flight attendants, asked her to sit down next to him, and showed her the bomb in his suitcase.

Cooper was hijacking the plane. He demanded $200,000 in cash, four parachutes and a full tank of fuel for the plane when it landed in Seattle.

Once on the ground and the cash had been handed over, Cooper allowed the passengers off. Then, with the pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer and one cabin attendant aboard, ordered the plane to head for Mexico. He insisted the plane fly low, slow, and unpressurised.

Once the plane was airborne, he locked the flight attendant in the cockpit, donned one of the parachutes, and lowered the rear stairs. Then, at 10,000 feet he jumped into the night, somewhere over the Cascade mountains. He was never seen again. The FBI’s case is still open.

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