The Search For D. B. Cooper

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during a parachute escape from applying 727 somewhere between wing search was made of the client immediately don't know who he was where he came from or where he went I expect it will keep looking until we find him or find out what happened

in the afternoon of November the 24th 1971 a middle-aged man carrying a briefcase walked into Portland International Airport and purchased a one-way ticket to Seattle Washington the man identified himself as Dan Cooper and along with 36 other passengers and a crew of six he soon boarded Northwest Airlines flight 305 once aboard Cooper made

himself comfortable in the middle of the last row seats on the right side of the cabin he ordered a drink and had a smoke because this was the 70s once the flight was cleared for departure Cooper turned around and handed an envelope to flight attendant Florence Schaffner inside the envelope was a note featuring a

handwritten message stating he had a bomb Schaffner reluctantly sat down beside him and glimpsed what appeared to be eight sticks of dynamite inside his briefcase Cooper's demands were quite simple he wanted two hundred thousand dollars in cash and four parachutes he also demanded a fuel truck to stand ready to refuel the aircraft once they landed in

Seattle should they fail to comply with his demands he threatened to quote do the job once the flight was airborne Schaffner went in formed the cockpit crew while another flight attendant by the name of Tina Mucklow remained by Cooper's side by using a telephone in the rear of the cabin Mucklow acted as