50 Years Ago Today

[Duke]

On 24 November 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper bought a plane ticket from Portland (OR) to Seattle. He hijacked the airplane, claiming he had a bomb in his briefcase, and demanded $200000 cash and four parachutes. He parachuted from the plane in that area, taking the money and bomb with him. He has never been seen again, making his the only unsolved skyjacking in US history.

 

[Debi]

D.B. Cooper Skyjacking Case Turns 50 | Coast to Coast AM

Fifty years ago this evening, a mysterious individual who later came to be known as D.B. Cooper became a part of American folklore by way of a brazen skyjacking that remains unsolved to this day.

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And I'm betting this will become one of the over 50 shows Coast has done on this! I can see the producers calling the same guests to be on again...sigh.

 

[Duke]

So this character reenacted Cooper's jump yesterday. It was an exact recreation, except he jumped from a different plane, at lower airspeed and altitude, over a different locale, with a different chute and harness, in daylight vice night, in better weather, and wearing sneakers as opposed to dress shoes.