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    The Disappearance of D. B. Cooper

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    D.B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight in 1971, extorting $200,000 and parachuting from the plane over Washington state. The FBI investigated the case for 45 years but was never able to determine Cooper's identity or fate. The hijacking inspired 31 similar incidents the following year and led the FAA to implement new security measures on commercial flights.

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    The Disappearance of D. B. Cooper

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    D.B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight in 1971, extorting $200,000 and parachuting from the plane over Washington state. The FBI investigated the case for 45 years but was never able to determine Cooper's identity or fate. The hijacking inspired 31 similar incidents the following year and led the FAA to implement new security measures on commercial flights.

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    D.B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight in 1971, extorting $200,000 and parachuting from the plane over Washington state. The FBI investigated the case for 45 years but was never able to determine Cooper's identity or fate. The hijacking inspired 31 similar incidents the following year and led the FAA to implement new security measures on commercial flights.

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    The Disappearance of D. B. Cooper

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    D.B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight in 1971, extorting $200,000 and parachuting from the plane over Washington state. The FBI investigated the case for 45 years but was never able to determine Cooper's identity or fate. The hijacking inspired 31 similar incidents the following year and led the FAA to implement new security measures on commercial flights.

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    The Disappearance of D. B.

    Cooper
    D. B. Cooper is an epithet for an unidentified person
    who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 during
    November 24th, 1971.

    N467US, the aircraft which was hijacked during the incident.

    The hijacker extorted $200,000, asked to be taken to Mexico


    City before parachuting over southwestern Washington during
    the second flight. The hijacker purchased his plane ticket using
    the alias “Dan Cooper” but became known as D. B. Cooper due
    to a news miscommunication.

    A drawing of D. B. Cooper made by the FBI during 1972.

    The FBI investigated this incident for around 45 years after the
    hijacking, but suspended the investigation in July 2016.
    Over 45 years, the FBI made public some of its
    working hypotheses and tentative conclusions, which was
    drawn from witness testimony and the scarce amount of
    physical evidence available. The flight attendants whom spent
    the most time with Cooper gave identical descriptions, which
    were that he was 1.78 metres tall, around 82 kg, in his mid-40s
    with brown eyes and swarthy skin. It was theorized that the
    hijacker took his alias from a popular Belgian comic series
    featuring the fictional Royal Canadian Air Force test pilot, Dan
    Cooper.
    The FBI speculated from the beginning that Cooper
    never survived his jump due to the terrible weather conditions
    and without proper equipment. The conditions mentioned
    being that he jumped into the pitch-black night, in the rain,
    with -9 °C wind going 77 meters a second at 3,000 meters in the
    air, without a helmet nor a functioning parachute. Even if he
    somehow were to survive his fall, survival in the mountainous
    terrain during winter would have been impossible without an
    accomplice at a landing point. This would have required a
    precisely timed which would need cooperation from the flight
    crew. It was speculated Cooper never had any clear idea where
    he was during his jump into the stormy night.
    A year after the hijacking, 31 more hijackers
    committed similar incidents in American airspace. Nineteen of
    them were done for the purpose of extorting money and 15 of
    the hijackers asked for parachutes. This caused the Federal
    Aviation Administration to begin requiring airlines to search all
    passengers and the items they were taking in early 1973. Only
    two hijackings were attempted during this year. The FAA also
    required that the exterior of all Boeing 727 aircraft be modified
    with a spring-loaded device that prevents the lowering of the
    aft airstair during flight. This was called the “Cooper vane”.

    The Cooper Vane.

    The planes were also modified with a peephole in the cockpit


    door; this allowed the cockpit crew to observe passengers
    without opening the cockpit door.
    View through a peephole.

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