November 24 in American History
A man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest, collected $200,000 in ransom, and parachuted out the back of the plane into the night. He was never found. It remains the only unsolved air piracy in American history — an enduring folk mystery.
In 1971: the D.B. Cooper skyjacking. A man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest, collected $200,000 in ransom, and parachuted out the back of the plane into the night.
A man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest, collected $200,000 in ransom, and parachuted out the back of the plane into the night. He was never found. It remains the only unsolved air piracy in American history — an enduring folk mystery.
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