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The Man Who Vanished: The D.B. Cooper Skyjacking Mystery | The Evidence Room
In this gripping episode of The Evidence Room, host Cynthia Bandeville dissects the enduring mystery of D.B. Cooper, the only unsolved air piracy case in commercial aviation history. On November 24, 1971, a man using the alias Dan Cooper boarded Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle, hijacked the plane with a purported bomb, and demanded $200,000 in ransom and four parachutes. After the money and chutes were delivered in Seattle, he ordered the rear airstair deployed mid-flight and jumped into the dark, wooded terrain of Washington state, vanishing without a trace…
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