
Vanished at Ten Thousand Feet: The D.B. Cooper Mystery
Vanished at Ten Thousand Feet: The D.B. Cooper Hijacking That America Never Solved
On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a polite man in a business suit boarded a thirty-minute flight from Portland to Seattle, handed a flight attendant a note claiming he had a bomb, and calmly extorted $200,000 from Northwest Orient Airlines. Hours later he stepped off the rear stairs of a Boeing 727 into a freezing storm, and was never seen again. How does a man jump into the night with nineteen pounds of marked twenty-dollar bills and leave no body, no parachute, and no trace? Why did $5,800 of that ransom surface nine…
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