A mysterious hijacker 'DB Cooper' held the Northwest Orient Airlines flight 53 years ago for $200,000 ransom, and parachuted out of the aircraft, never to be seen again. Now, the parachute used by ...

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Scott and his crew were flying a Northwest Orient Airlines jet when they were hijacked on November 24th, 1971. A passenger named Dan Cooper -- later mistakenly identified as D.B. Cooper -- boarded ...

On Nov. 24, 1971, Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 as it was en route to Seattle. He threatened to blow up the plane with a homemade bomb, and he demanded $200,000 and four ...