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SNIPPETZ ASKS: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS D.B. COOPER? by Deborah Stumpf
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f the nearly dozen in-flight hijackings that have taken place in the United States since the late 1950s, there has been only one that the FBI has yet to solve – Northwest Airlines Flight 305 – perpetrator: D.B Cooper. Hijackings have not typically been the source of adventure tales or lighthearted jokes, but D.B. Cooper’s story has spawned such, as well as what might be considered a cult following, for over 30 years.
THE HIJACKING On Nov. 24, 1971, in Portland, Ore., a middle age man by the name of Dan Cooper boarded a Northwest Airlines Boeing 727 commercial jet. Flight 305, with a total of 36 passengers, was scheduled to leave for Seattle, Wash., at 4:35 p.m. but took off a bit late at 4:45 p.m.
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When the plane reached cruising altitude, Dan Cooper handed the stewardess a note. The note was never found, so there is no real account of its contents. But the gist of the note indicated that Cooper was hijacking the plane for ransom money and had a bomb in his briefcase, which he would use if they didn’t oblige his demands. After the captain of the plane was told of the note, he came out to talk to Cooper with the hope that the note was a hoax. When Cooper opened his briefcase to reveal the makings of a bomb, the captain went back to the cockpit and radioed Seattle.
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A SPECIAL BRAND OF ACCOUNTS til the money and the parachutes were available for delivery to him. The president of Northwest Airlines decided to give in to Cooper’s demands. Airline officials and FBI agents scurried to attain the parachutes and the $200,000. The types and number of parachutes that Cooper had requested led authorities to speculate that Cooper had experience in freefall parachuting – and that he might have had an accomplice. The FBI gathered $200,000 – all in $20 bills, which were photographed with a high-speed machine that created a microfilm for identifying serial numbers.
THE RANSOM
At 5:24 p.m., the ransom had been collected. The flight crew was told to head in and the plane landed at 5:45 p.m.
Cooper demanded four parachutes and $200,000. He ordered the pilots to circle the Seattle airport un-
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