THE SKYJACKER: November 24, 1971.

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STATUS: Unsolved Cold Case

 

On Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, a man identifying himself as "Dan Cooper" boarded a Boeing 727 in Portland, ordered a bourbon and soda, and calmly handed the flight attendant a note stating he had a bomb in his briefcase. His demands were precise: four parachutes and $200,000 in negotiable twenty-dollar bills. After a tense landing in Seattle to collect the cash and release the passengers, the plane took off again into a blinding Pacific Northwest storm, flying low and slow toward Reno. ​

Somewhere between Seattle and Reno, over the rugged, pitch-black wilderness of southwest Washington, Cooper did the unthinkable. He lowered the aft stairs of the aircraft, stepped out into the freezing, 200-mile-per-hour slipstream, and plunged into a howling abyss of rain and pine trees.

He was never seen again.

Only a small, rotting bundle of his ransom money washed up on a riverbank years later, leaving the FBI with thousands of dead-end leads, a clip-on tie, and the only unsolved skyjacking in commercial aviation history. ​

Did he survive the terrifying jump into the wilderness, or did the forest floor become his unmarked grave?

The sky left no tracks, but the evidence file is far from empty. ​

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The FBI closed the case, but we aren't finished. Somewhere between the flight path and the Columbia River, the truth is waiting.

 

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               It’s time to find the man the world couldn’t catch.

                                     He didn't just disappear

       He walked right out of the sky and into history and the future.

                    He’s not a ghost; he’s out there somewhere. ​

​​                         One man. One parachute. Zero traces.

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