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D.B. Cooper Survived—and His Tie Could Reveal Everything
On 24 November 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle. He told a flight attendant he had a bomb and demanded $200,000 in twenty-dollar bills and four parachutes.After the aircraft landed in Seattle, Cooper released its 36 passengers, collected the ransom and ordered the remaining crew to fly towards Mexico City. Shortly after 8:00 p.m., somewhere between Seattle and Reno, he lowered the rear stairs of the Boeing 727 and parachuted into the darkness.He was never conclusively identified.The world would come to know him as “D.B…
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