Who do you think was most likely the real D.B. Cooper? And were you alive when Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 was hijacked over Washington state in 1971? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section down below.
▬Contents of this video▬ 00:00 - Intro 01:20 - Ted Braden 03:50 - Kenneth Peter Christiansen 05:00 - Jack Coffelt 06:02 - Lynn Doyle Cooper 07:04 - Barbara Dayton 07:52 - Outro
D.B. Cooper is the name given to a notorious thief and hijacker who somehow managed to escape justice by jumping out of a Boeing 727. Nobody knows who the real D.B. Cooper is. The hijacker had identified himself as Dan Cooper when committing his crimes, but due to a miscommunication, he popularly became known as D.B. Cooper. It's assumed that the name they gave was just an alias, so merely tracking down everyone named Dan Cooper wouldn't help solve the mystery.
On November 24, 1971, Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305. The aircraft was flying en route from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington. Cooper then extorted $200,000 in ransom money – equivalent to $1.4 million today. After releasing the plane's passengers in Seattle, Cooper asked to be flown to Reno, Nevada. Mid-flight, he parachuted out of the aircraft over southwestern Washington.
Everything about the D.B. Cooper case is baffling. In fact, the crime he committed remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in the history of commercial aviation. D.B. Cooper has gone down in history as a folk hero of sorts despite the fact that he was and still is considered to be a wanted criminal. The brazenness of his plan, how he seemed to execute it flawlessly, and the way he seemed to vanish into thin air after making his daring escape, made for a tale that sounds like it could be the plot of a Hollywood action film.
What became of the man known as D.B. Cooper remains a mystery as he was never heard from again. The FBI maintained an active investigation into the D.B. Cooper case for 45 years after the hijacking. Even though the bureau compiled an extensive case file over this period, they never were able to arrive at any definitive conclusions regarding Cooper's identity or his ultimate fate. In this video, we'll be taking a closer look at a few suspects that looked just like the FBI composite sketches of D.B. Cooper.
DB Cooper Suspects Who Look Just Like the FBI Sketches
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