The Vanishing Hijacker: D.B. Cooper

November 24, 1971. A man calling himself D.B. Cooper boards a

plane from Portland to Seattle — calm, polite, mysterious. Mid-flight,

he hands the stewardess a note: “I have a bomb.” He demands $200,000 in cash, four parachutes,

and a refueled jet. The FBI agrees. The money is delivered. Cooper releases the passengers…

then orders the pilots south. Somewhere over the dark, rainy forests of

Washington, he opens the rear stairs — and jumps. No body. No parachute.

Just a stormy night… and silence. Decades of investigation, countless suspects, endless theories

— but no answers. To this day, D.B. Cooper remains the only hijacker who