November 24, 1971
Cooper boarded the aircraft, a Boeing 727–100 (FAA registration N467US), and took seat 18C in the rear of the passenger cabin. He lit a cigarette and ordered a bourbon and water.1
Minutes later, the man known as D.B. Cooper claimed to have a bomb, forced the crew to land, demanded $200,000, two parachutes and safe passage to Mexico.
“No funny stuff or I’ll do the job.”
The FBI has a new lead2 in America’s only unsolved hijacking.
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Link to story by Steve Miletich of the Seattle Times. ↩
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