July 15, 2010

The Extraordinary Case of D.B. Cooper

A man enters an airplane in 1971 with a bomb, demands $200,000 and then disappears into the night.

Following Cooper’s demands, the jet was put into a holding pattern over Puget Sound, while Cooper’s demands for $200,000 and four parachutes were met. [...] Meanwhile, Cooper sat in the airplane, drinking a cocktail of bourbon whiskey and lemon-lime soda, which he would offer to pay for. Tina Mucklow, a flight attendant who spent the most time with the hijacker, remarked Cooper “seemed rather nice,” and thoughtful enough to request the crew be brought meals after the jet landed in Seattle.

You should read the whole Wikipedia article. Fascinating.

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  1. Joseph Logan on July 15th, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    Are you new to the story? I recall being fascinated by a movie about D.B. Cooper when I was just a boy. Thank you for the fond memory.

  2. Sheila Ryan on July 15th, 2010 at 2:15 pm

    This is really weird, as I was thinking about D.B. Cooper last night. I have no idea why.

  3. Amanda Mae Meyncke on July 15th, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    Yeah I’d never heard it before.

  4. Joseph Logan on July 15th, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    Makes me happy that you’ve come across it, and nostalgic for how I felt as a kid imagining what that life would be like.

  5. Nate Tharp on July 15th, 2010 at 3:31 pm

    I’d always confused D.B. Cooper and Howard Hughes (for no good reason) until I saw a great show on Cooper.

  6. Luke on July 15th, 2010 at 8:37 pm

    Have you seen Prison Break? Not that I’m recommending it, but he’s a character in the show.

  7. Matt on July 16th, 2010 at 5:40 am

    Mention of his name still gets the odd stare here in Seattle.

  8. Josh Weichhand on July 16th, 2010 at 8:35 am

    Man, I’ve never heard of this before either. Chock it up to the generational divide.

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