D.B.Cooper

D. B. Cooper is a media epithet (actual pseudonym: Dan Cooper) used to describe an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in United States airspace between Portland and Seattle on the afternoon of November 24, 1971. After a stop at Seattle-Tacoma airport to collect $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1.28 million today)   The hijack that took place nearly 50 years ago by an unidentified criminal still leaves in astonishment. On November 24th 1971,D.B. Cooper as he is called ,took a ticket from the Northwest Orient Airlines flight As he was dressed in suit and tie people found nothing suspicious .He casually got in the plane waited for the plane to take off and after the plane took off he passed a note to one of the flight attendants saying that he had a bomb in his brief case and demanded for  $200,000 and 4 parachute.He was given the money and the parachute after 36 other passengers got off the plane at the airport in Seattle. Cooper kept back some of the crew members and told them to fly to Mexico.On the way to Mexico he jumped off the plane with the money .After this incidents he was not seen or heard again by anyone .The FBI doesn’t believe that Cooper survived but the theory has not been confirmed yet. Investigations say that he jumped off the plane without being an expert skydiver from a height of 5000 feet in risky conditions. Also he was dressed in a suit and tie .According to FBI records Cooper leaped into a woods at night where it was raining at a speed of 200 kmph wearing loafers and a trench coat.

Available evidence and a preponderance of expert opinion suggested that Cooper probably did not survive his high-risk jump, but the FBI nevertheless maintained an active investigation for 45 years after the hijacking. Despite a case file that grew to over 60 volumes over that period, no definitive conclusions were reached regarding Cooper’s true identity or fate.

This infamous criminal has still not been found and leaves us with a unsolved mystery. In 2016 ,the FBI announced that they would no longer investigate this cold case and are backing off from the longest and  the most exhaustive U.S. investigation ever.