On the eve of Thanksgiving, 1971, a nondescript, 40-something man who called himself Dan Cooper approached the airport counter and bought a one-way ticket for the short flight from Portland to Seattle
Within hours, he had strapped a bag holding $200,000 in ransom to himself -- today worth about $1.3 million -- and parachuted off the plane, never to be found.
After getting a glimpse of the mass of wires in his briefcase, the badly shaken flight attendant wrote down his demands -- four parachutes and $200,000 -- and brought them to the captain as instructed. But somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Nevada, Cooper jumped out of the rear door of the Boeing 727 and into the bitterly cold winter night.The FBI launched a far-reaching investigation, but after several weeks of searching in the thick, rugged forests of the American Northwest, investigators found nothing.
She describes the current flurry of interest around the case as like a "cult," fueled by the fact that the hijacker has never been found.
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