On the afternoon of November 24, 1971, a man wearing a business suit boarded a flight from Portland to Seattle. He identified himself as Dan Cooper. Shortly after takeoff, he quietly handed a slip of paper to a flight attendant, claiming he had a bomb in his briefcase.
His demands were clear and straightforward:
$200,000 in cash, equivalent to over $1.6 million today, and four parachutes, ready for landing.
When the plane arrived in Seattle, officials agreed to all his demands. After receiving the money and parachutes, he released the 36 passengers on board.
Only the flight crew remained on board.
Cooper then issued another strange instruction: he ordered the plane to be flown at a low altitude and slow speed toward Mexico City. Officials on the ground were shocked, but the claim of a bomb on board compelled them to comply.
About 30 minutes after the second leg of the flight, high above the dense and stormy forests of southwestern Washington state, Cooper executed the most daring part of his plan. He sent the crew into the cockpit, lowered the rear ladder of the Boeing 727, and, taking the ransom money with him, parachuted into the freezing cold and dark night.
He then disappeared forever.
Despite one of the FBI's largest investigations ever, neither Cooper nor most of the ransom money was ever found. Only a small bundle of money was found on a riverbank in 1980.
This "perfect crime," carried out by a seemingly decent hijacker, remains America's only unsolved plane hijacking case.
The story is now considered one of the most mysterious and famous puzzles of American folklore.
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