D.B. Cooper
Parachuting ransom thief
D.B.
Cooper is the pseudonym of an unidentified man who hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight in 1971, extorted $200,000 in ransom, then parachuted from the plane somewhere over the Pacific Northwest and was never found.
The case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in American history.
The name has become shorthand for a daring escape or vanishing act: He pulled a D.B. Cooper and disappeared with the money.
- hijackerOne who seizes vehicles
- skyjackerOne who commandeers aircraft
- plane hijackingForcible aircraft seizure
- parachuteDrag-creating descent device
- night jumpParachute descent in darkness
ransom · Boeing · 1971 · Portland · Seattle · mystery · unsolved mystery · cold case · unsolved · FBI · cash · briefcase · jump · disappear · fugitive · alias · stairs · Northwest
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- mysterious figuresenigma, phantom, shadowy figure, mysterious stranger, mystery man
- doomed voyagesDonner Party, Terra Nova, Titanic, Edmund Fitzgerald, Lusitania
capture status
D.B. CooperTed Kaczynski
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