Is D.B. Cooper still alive?
On Nov. 24, 1971 — Thanksgiving eve — a passenger listed as “Dan Cooper” on his ticket boarded Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, bound from Portland, Ore., to Seattle, Wash. The FBI believes he was the only person on the plane that afternoon who knew that it was about to be hijacked [source: New York Magazine]. Cooper, who wore a black suit and sported a sensible hairstyle, single-handedly took over the Boeing 727 airplane and held its passengers and crew hostage. Threatening to detonate an ex
