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The Man Who Vanished Into the Sky: D.B. Cooper's Last Jump | The Missing Archive
In this episode of The Missing Archive, host Jasmine Riley dissects the enduring mystery of D.B. Cooper, the only unsolved hijacking in commercial aviation history. On Thanksgiving Eve in 1971, a man using the alias Dan Cooper boarded Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle, handed a flight attendant a note claiming to have a bomb, and demanded $200,000 and four parachutes. After receiving the ransom and fueling up in Seattle, he ordered the rear airstair door opened at cruising altitude and jumped into the dark, wooded landscape of Southwest Washington, never to be seen…
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