{"id":1537,"date":"2016-07-15T02:51:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T07:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2016-07-15T02:53:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T07:53:45","slug":"d-b-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"D. B. Cooper has escaped from the FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"

D. B. Cooper<\/strong> has escaped from the FBI. The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced\u00a0that\u00a0it is no longer actively investigating the case related to suspect\u00a0D.B. Cooper. That case revolved around the unsolved mystery of an airplane hijacking and ransom that occurred on November 24, 1971.\u00a0The incident took place on a Northwest Orient Airlines flight originating in\u00a0Portland, Oregon on Thanksgiving evening. The suspect purchased a single ticket under the name Dan Cooper for the 30 minute flight to Seattle, Washington. The aircraft operated for the flight was a\u00a0Boeing 727-100.<\/p>\n

D. B. Cooper timeline<\/h2>\n

After\u00a0boarding the aircraft, Mr. Cooper took a seat\u00a0in\u00a0the rear of the aircraft\u00a0cabin.\u00a0Flight\u00a0305\u00a0departed\u00a0on time\u00a0at 2:50\u00a0pm. Once airborne, the suspect\u00a0passed a note to the flight attendant seated closest to him.\u00a0The attendant did not read the note, at which time\u00a0Cooper allegedly told\u00a0her “I have a bomb”. A\u00a0list of\u00a0demands was then given to the attendant. It included $200,000,\u00a0four parachutes, and a fuel truck in Seattle to refuel the aircraft. The list was\u00a0then passed to the\u00a0cockpit crew.<\/p>\n

The pilot contacted the control tower at the Seattle Tacoma International Airport about the situation. Air traffic\u00a0control then\u00a0contacted local and federal authorities. The flight circled the Seattle area for 2 hours before landing after Cooper’s demands had been met. Once on the ground, Cooper instructed the pilot to taxi to a well lit area of the tarmac.\u00a0Once\u00a0the\u00a0cash and parachutes were delivered, Cooper allowed the passengers and two flight attendants to leave the\u00a0aircraft.\u00a0With the aircraft refueled, Cooper informed the\u00a0cockpit crew\u00a0to head\u00a0southeast towards Mexico City.\u00a0The flight plan also included instructions for an airspeed of\u00a0100 knots\u00a0and a ceiling of\u00a010,000 feet.<\/p>\n

The legend of D. B.\u00a0Cooper<\/h3>\n

The Boeing 727\u00a0took off again at 7:40 p.m. Two\u00a0military\u00a0fighter aircraft were dispatched to tail the\u00a0airplane.\u00a0About 20 minutes into the flight,\u00a0the cockpit\u00a0received an\u00a0aft\u00a0stairwell\u00a0activation\u00a0warning light. The airplane then continued on to a planned refueling stop in Reno, Nevada.\u00a0Once on the ground,\u00a0FBI and police agents\u00a0searched the aircraft,\u00a0but Mr.\u00a0Cooper was long gone.\u00a0The\u00a0FBI rounded up\u00a0possible suspects, including an Oregon man named D. B. Cooper. Even though he\u00a0was eliminated\u00a0as a suspect, a reporter mistakenly reported his name instead of Dan Cooper. The mistake was then repeated by many\u00a0other reporters, and the\u00a0legend of\u00a0D. B. Cooper was born.<\/p>\n

The FBI has searched for 45 years to try and find D. B. Cooper, or his remains. It is widely suspected that he did not survive his jump from the aircraft. The weather conditions and rough terrain over which he bailed out in the dark would have been tough to overcome.<\/p>\n

\"D.<\/p>\n

Image from\u00a0www.seattlemet.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D. B. Cooper has escaped from the FBI. The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced\u00a0that\u00a0it is no longer actively investigating the case related to suspect\u00a0D.B. Cooper. That case revolved around the unsolved mystery of an airplane hijacking and ransom that occurred on November 24, 1971.\u00a0The incident took place on a Northwest Orient Airlines flight originating in\u00a0Portland, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}