by Bruce A. Smith
Editor’s Note: With all the interest in the DB Cooper case generated by the 41st anniversary a couple of weeks ago, I thought it worthwhile to reframe the opening chapter of my forthcoming book, “The Hunt for DB Cooper – The Resurgent Investigation into America’s only Unsolved Skyjacking.”
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On the day before Thanksgiving in 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper approached the Northwest Orient Airlines counter at the Portland, Oregon airport, and for $20 he bought a one-way ticket to Seattle aboard Flight 305. The man was soon to become known as DB Cooper, and he skyjacked the 727 jet aircraft as it became airborne. Later, he parachuted from the jetliner with $200,000 tethered to his body, and not only has he never been seen since, his identity is still unknown. Continue reading
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