50 years on, mystery man's mid-air escape remains only unsolved plane hijacking in US history
India Today
Fifty years after his leap into the unknown, the case of D.B. Cooper -- an alias spawned by the media -- remains the only unsolved plane hijacking in the history of the United States.
On the eve of Thanksgiving, 1971, a nondescript, 40-something man who called himself Dan Cooper approached the airport counter and bought a one-way ticket for the short flight from Portland to Seattle.
Within hours, he had strapped a bag holding $200,000 in ransom to himself -- today worth about $1.3 million -- and parachuted off the plane, never to be found.
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