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Unsolved November 24, 1971 Missing Person

D.B. Cooper

Status Unsolved
Type Missing Person
Date November 24, 1971
Location Seattle area, Washington
Victim Age Unknown
Gender Male

A man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 in 1971, extorted $200,000 in ransom, and parachuted from the plane somewhere over the Pacific Northwest. He was never identified or found. A small bundle of decomposed bills was found along the Columbia River in 1980. It remains the only unsolved commercial airline hijacking in US history.

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