D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane and VANISHED at 10,000 feet ✈️ #shorts #history #truecrime #dbcooper

A man jumped out of a commercial airplane with $200,000 in cash. They never found him. And the case is still open.

November 24th, 1971. A man calling himself Dan Cooper boards Northwest Orient Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle. He's calm. Well-dressed. Orders a bourbon and soda. Then passes a note to the flight attendant.

The note says he has a bomb. He shows her a tangle of wires and red cylinders. His demands: $200,000 in unmarked bills, four parachutes, and a fuel truck waiting in Seattle. The FBI scrambles. The airline pays. Every single passenger is released safely.

But here's the part that breaks your brain. He straps on a parachute, ties the money bag to his body, and orders the crew to fly toward Mexico at low altitude. Somewhere over the Cascade Mountains — in 200-mile-per-hour winds, in freezing rain, at night — he opens the rear staircase and jumps. Into nothing. And vanishes completely.

In 1980, a young boy found a small bundle of the ransom bills on a Columbia River bank. Partially decayed. Still banded. The rest of the money — and the man — were never found. D.B. Cooper is the only unsolved case of air piracy in American aviation history.

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