After 45 Years, FBI Closes Investigation Into Unsolved 'DB Cooper' Hijacking KOMO News
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A man boards a plane in 1971, exchanges its passengers for a ransom of cash, and disappears. Discover the mystery of one of America's most fascinating missing persons in this collection of scenes from "D.C. Cooper: Case Closed?" (History)

Forty-five years after an unidentified man parachuted from the rear of a hijacked jetliner and into folklore with $200,000 in cash, the FBI is officially closing its investigation into the famous "DB Cooper" case that has transfixed people around the world ever since.

FBI spokesman Ayn Dietrich-Williams said Tuesday the still-unsolved case was closed "in order to focus on other investigative priorities." She called the DB Cooper hijacking case over Western Washington "one of the longest and most exhaustive investigations in our history."

During the course of the "NORJACK investigation," as it is known by the FBI, agents reviewed all credible leads, coordinated between multiple field offices to conduct searches, collected all available evidence, and interviewed all identified witnesses, Dietrich-Williams said.

"Over the years, the FBI has applied numerous new and innovative investigative techniques, as well as examined countless items at the FBI Laboratory," she said. "Evidence obtained during the course of the investigation will now be preserved for historical purposes at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C."

The mystery surrounding the hijacking of a Northwest Orient Airlines flight in November 1971 by a still-unknown individual resulted in significant international attention and a decades-long manhunt.

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