D.B. Cooper

D.B. Cooper — Unsolved Hijacking

On November 24, 1971, a man using the alias "Dan Cooper" (later misidentified as "D.B. Cooper") hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 between Portland and Seattle, extorted $200,000 in ransom, and parachuted from the rear of the Boeing 727 into the Pacific Northwest night. He was never identified or found. It remains the only unsolved commercial airline hijacking in U.S. history.