Dan Cooper walked up to the Northwest Orient Airlines ticket counter in Portland, Oregon, on Nov. 24, 1971, and paid cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle.
Cooper, dark-haired and sporting a white shirt with a black tie, perhaps in his 40s, boarded the plane. He ordered a bourbon and soda before the flight took off. Then, he got the attention of a flight attendant, and passed her a note to say he had a bomb in his briefcase.
Cooper asked the stewardess to sit with him. He popped open the briefcase, revealed a nest of wires, then snapped it shut again. He told the attendant to write down what he said, then demanded $200,000 in $20 bills, as well as four parachutes. Read more…
