Terrifying & True | D.B. Cooper: Flight 305, the $200,000 Ransom & the Vanishing Hijacker

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In the United States of America,
it's often common to turn criminals into folk

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eurings. People like Jesse James,
or Bonnie and Clyde come to mind immediately,

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people who do things others would never
dream of doing, and it becomes

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the stuff of legend. But what
about one man who did something so unthinkable

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for that cash money that it makes
the entire world wondering what you were about

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to turn Based on witness accounts,
testimonies, and public record, this is

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terrifying and true true. It is
one of the most known unsolved cases in

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American history. Since the crime was
committed, hundreds of thousands of people have

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looked into what exactly happened during the
event and just what in the world happened

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after. Law enforcement have been stumped
for decades, and civilians have submitted theory

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after theory. The details of that
fateful day are well known, but the

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aftermath is where many would say the
story truly begins. It's inspired multiple episodes

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of television, podcasts, nonfiction and
fiction books, and just about every form

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of popular media. Tonight, we
take a look at one of the most

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widely known, researched, famous,
and baffling cases in American crime history,

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the hijacking of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight
three oh five and the mystery of D.

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B. Cooper. Right after this, on November twenty fourth, nineteen

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seventy one, flight three oh five
of Northwest Orient Airlines departed from Portland International

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Airport at two point fifty pm.
Its destination was Seattle Tacoma International Airport.

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Among the thirty seven passengers was a
man later described as being in his mid

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forties with dark hair and brown eyes, wearing a dark business suit with a

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white shirt, a thin black tie, black raincoat, and brown shoes.

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All he brought on board with him
was a black suitcase and a paper bag.

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Shortly into the flight, this seemingly
average man passed a note to flight

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attendant Florence Shaffner. At first,
Shafner passed it off as just some guy

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who was away on business trying to
pick up a girl, But after she

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didn't answer and dropped the note into
her bag, the passenger turned to her

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and said, miss you'd better look
at that note. I have a bomb.

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It was then that Shafter retrieved the
note from her purse and read it,

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stating that the man had a bomb
and wanted her to sit next to

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him. She obliged. Once seated
next to the man, Shaffner asked to

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see the bomb. The man opened
up his briefcase and revealed two rows of

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four red cylinders. Attached to the
cylinders were a wire and a large cylindrical

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battery. Afterwards, he closed the
briefcase and told the attendant his demands,

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which she promptly copied onto paper and
delivered to the captain in the cockpit.

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The captain, William A. Scott, directed Shafner to stay in the cockpit

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and write down everything that happened from
that point on. From there, Scott

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radioed Northwest Flight operations and informed them
of the hijacker's demands. Quote two hundred

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thousand dollars in a knapsack by five
p m. He wants two front parachutes,

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two back parachutes. He wants the
money a negotiable American currency. In

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addition, the passengers would later request
that upon landing in Seattle, the fuel

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trucks must meet the plane and all
passengers must remain seated while the money was

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brought aboard. Then he would release
the passengers after he had the money.

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The last items brought aboard would be
the four parachutes. Scott then proceeded to

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inform the Seattle Tacoma Airport's air traffic
control, who then contacted local police and

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the FBI. While Scott handled everything
communication wise and continued to fly the aircraft,

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flight attendant Tina Mucklow stayed by the
hijacker's side. She would later state

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that during the flight he appeared to
be familiar with the area he could see

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from his window, and that he
came off as nice as opposed to cruel

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or aggressive, and also didn't appear
nervous at all. When Mucklough asked him

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why he had selected Northwest Airlines,
he replied with a laugh and said it's

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not because I have a grudge against
your airlines. It's just because I have

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a grudge and that Northwest suited his
needs best. At around five twenty four

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pm, Captain Scott was informed that
the authorities had gathered everything the hijacker requested

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and were ready for the plane to
land. The captain informed the mysterious passenger,

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and the plane landed at five forty
six pm. From there, the

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hijacker directed Mucklow to be the one
to go retrieve the money from law enforcement

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and bring it back to him.
Once he had his money, the hijacker

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began to let the passengers go.
Afterward, he instructed Mucklow to retrieve the

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three parachutes and bring them to him
at the rear of the plane. When

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he had all of his money and
other requested materials and the plane finished refueling,

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the hijacker gave the cockpit crew his
flight plan and directives, a southeast

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course toward Mexico City at the minimum
air speed possible without stalling the aircraft,

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approximately one hundred knots at a maximum
of ten thousand feet altitude. The hijacker

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also specified the landing gear must remain
deployed, the wing flaps must be lowered

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fifteen degrees, and the cabin must
remain unpressurized. The first officer, William

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J. Radazac, informed the man
that this configuration limited the aircraft's range to

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about one thousand miles, so a
second refueling would be necessary before entering Mexico.

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The hijacker and the crew discussed options
and agreed on Reno Tahoe International Airport

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as the refueling stop. The hijacker
further directed the aircraft to take off with

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the rear exit door open and its
air stare extended. Northwest's Home office objected

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that this was unsafe. The hijacker
counted, saying it can be done,

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do it, but did not argue
the point, and said he would lower

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the staircase once they were airborne.
He demanded Mucklough remain aboard to assist the

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operation. At about seven forty pm, flight three H five took off with

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only the hijacker, Mucklow, Captain
Scott, First Officer Ratazac, and the

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flight engineer Harold E. Anderson aboard. Shortly after takeoff, the man instructed

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Mucklow to lower the aft staircase,
an act she was hesitant to perform out

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of fear of being sucked out of
the aircraft. Eventually, he instructed her

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to go to the cockpit, closed
the curtain partition between the coach and first

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class sections and not return, and
that he would lower them himself. Before

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leaving, Mucklow asked him to take
the bomb with him, to which he

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said he would either take it or
disarm it. As he walked to the

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cockpit and turned to close the curtain
partition, she saw the hijacker standing in

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the aisle, tying what appeared to
be the money bag around his waist.

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Around eight PM, a cockpit warning
light flashed, indicating the aft staircase had

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been deployed. The pilot used the
cabin intercom to ask the hijacker if he

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needed assistance, but Cooper's last message
was a one word reply no. The

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crew's ears popped from the drop in
cabin pressure from the stairs being opened.

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At approximately eight thirteen pm, the
aircraft's tail section suddenly pitched upward, forcing

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the pilots to trim and return the
aircraft to level flight. In his interview

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with the FBI, copilot Bill Redazak
said the sudden upward pitch occurred while the

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flight was near the suburbs north of
Portland. With the aft cabin door open

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and the staircase deployed. The flight
crew remained in the cockpit unsure if the

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hijacker was still aboard. Mucklow used
the cabin intercom to inform the hijacker they

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were approaching Reno and he needed to
raise the stairs so the plane could land

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safely. She repeated her requests as
the pilot's mane They made the final approach

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to land, but neither Mucklow nor
the flight crew received a reply from the

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hijacker. At eleven o two pm. With the aft staircase still deployed,

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Flight three H five landed at Reno
Tahoe International Airport. FBI agents, state

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troopers, sheriff's deputies, and Reno
police established a perimeter around the aircraft,

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but, fearing the hijacker and the
bomb were still aboard, did not approach

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the plane. Captain Scott searched the
cabin, confirmed the hijacker was no longer

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a board, and after a thirty
minute search, an FBI bomb squad declared

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the cabin safe. After the events
of the hijacking, the FBI began its

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investigation into who was behind the crime
and where he was, this, of

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course, assuming that he had survived
his jump at all. During their search

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for evidence, they were able to
find several items they deemed relevant to the

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case. Black clip on tie tie
clip and two of the four parachutes,

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one of which had been opened and
had three shroud lines cut from the canopy,

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a hair from Cooper's headrest, and
eight filter tipped Raleigh cigarette butts from

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the armrest ashtray. FBI agents interviewed
eyewitnesses in Portland's Seattle and Reno and developed

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a series of composite sketches. Local
police and FBI agents immediately began questioning possible

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suspects. Acting on the possibility the
hijacker may have used his real name or

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the same alias in a previous crime, Portland police discovered and interviewed a Portland

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citizen named d. B. Cooper. The Portland Cooper had a minor police

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record, but was quickly eliminated as
a suspect. In his rush to meet

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a deadline reporter, James Long confused
the man with the name used by the

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hijacker. The United States International Wire
Service reported Clyde Jabin republics Long's error,

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and as other media sources repeated the
error, the hijacker's pseudonym went from Dan

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Cooper to dB Cooper. Due to
the number of variables and parameters, precisely

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defining the area to search was difficult. The jets' air speed estimates varied,

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and the environmental conditions along the flight
path varied as well with the aircraft's location

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and altitude, and only Cooper knew
how long he stayed in free fall before

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pulling his ripcord. The Air Force
F one ZO six pilots neither saw anyone

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jumping from the airliner, nor did
their radar detect a deployed parachute. Moreover,

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a black clad individual jumping into the
moonless night would have been difficult to

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see, to say the least,
especially given the limited visibility, cloud cover

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and lack of ground lighting. The
T thirty three pilots did not make visual

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contact with the seven twenty seven.
On December sixth, nineteen seventy one,

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FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover approved
the use of an Air Force SR seventy

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one Blackbird to retrace and photograph Flight
three oh five's flight plan and attempt to

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locate the items Cooper carried during his
jump. The SR seventy one made five

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flights to retrace Flight three oh five's
route, but due to poor visibility,

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the photography attempts were unsuccessful. In
an experimental recreation flying the same aircraft used

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in the hijacking in the same flight
configuration, FBI agents pushed a two hundred

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pounds sled out of the open air
stair and were able to reproduce the upward

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motion of the tail section and brief
change in cabin pressure described by the flight

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crew at eight thirteen PM. Initial
extrapolations placed Cooper's landing zone within an area

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on the southernmost outreach of Mount Saint
Helens, a few miles southeast of Ariel,

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Washington, near Lake Merwin, an
artificial lake formed by a dam on

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the Lewis River. Search fa orts
focused on Clark and Kulitz Counties, encompassing

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the terrain immediately south and north of
the Lewis River in southwest Washington. FBI

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agents and sheriff's deputies searched large areas
of the heavily wooded terrain on foot and

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by helicopter. Door to door searches
of local farmhouses were also carried out.

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Other search parties ran patrol boats along
Lake Merwin and Yale Lake, the reservoir

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immediately to its east. Neither Cooper
nor any of the equipment he presumably carried

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was found. Using fixed winged aircraft
and helicopters from the Oregon Army National Guard,

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the FBI coordinated an aerial search along
the entire flight path from Seattle to

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Reno. Although numerous broken tree tops
and several pieces of plastic and other objects

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resembling parachute canopies were sighted and investigated. Nothing relevant to the hijacking was found.

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Shortly after the bring thaw in early
nineteen seventy two, teams of FBI

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agents, aided by some two hundred
soldiers from Fort Lewis, along with the

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United States Air Force personnel, National
guardsmen, and civilian volunteers, conducted another

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thorough ground search of Clark and Colwitz
Counties for eighteen days in March, and

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then another eighteen days in April.
Electronic Explorations Company, a marine salvage firm,

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used a submarine to search the two
hundred foot depths of Lake Merwin.

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Two local women stumbled upon a skeleton
in an abandoned structure in Clark County.

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It was later identified as the remains
of Barbara and Dairy, a teenaged girl

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who had been abducted and murdered several
weeks before. Ultimately, the extensive search

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and recovery operation uncovered no significant material
evidence related to the hijacking. Based on

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early computer projections produced for the FBI, Cooper's drop zone was first estimated to

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be between Aerial Dam to the north
and the t town of Battleground, Washington

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to the south. In March nineteen
seventy two, the FBI concluded their original

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calculations were incorrect after a joint investigation
with Northwest Orient Airlines and the Air Force

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determined Cooper probably jumped over the town
of Le Center, Washington. Later analysis

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indicated that the original landing zone estimates
were indeed inaccurate. Captain Scott, who

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was flying the aircraft manually because of
Cooper's speed and altitude demands, later determined

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his flight path was farther east than
initially thought. Additional data from a variety

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of sources, in particular Continental Airlines
pilot Tom Bohan, who was flying four

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minutes behind flight three OZH five,
indicated the wind direction factored into drop zone

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calculations had been wrong, possibly by
as much as eighty degrees. This and

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other supplemental data suggested the actual drop
zone was south southeast of the original estimate,

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in the drainage area of the Washugle
River. On July eight, twenty

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sixteen, the FBI announced active investigation
of the Cooper case was suspended, citing

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the need to focus investigative resources and
manpower on issues of higher and more urgent

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priority. Local field offices would continue
to accept any legitimate physical evidence related specifically

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to the parachutes or to the ransom
money that may emerge in the future.

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The sixty six volume case file,
compiled over the forty five year course of

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the investigation would be preserved for historical
purposes at FBI headquarters in Washington, d

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C. And on the FBI's website. All of the evidence is open to

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the public. In twenty nineteen,
the FBI released a report indicating that about

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three hours after Cooper jumped, a
burglary was reported at a small grocery store

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near Heise in Washington, an unincorporated
community located within the calculated drop zone that

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Northwest Airlines presented to the FBI.
The burglar was noted by the FBI to

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have taken only survival items such as
beef, jerky and gloves. This crime

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remains the only unsolved case of air
piracy in commercial aviation history, with the

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case that has as many unanswered questions
as this. Theories are plentiful as to

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who dB Cooper is and where he
resides. Some speculators claim he is actually

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a she. There are those who
think Cooper is alive and well, died

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almost immediately, or lived and died
a non spectacular death. But when it's

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all said and done. It's that
mystery and intrigue in this case that makes

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it so appealing to those interested in
unsolved mysteries from fiction, non fiction,

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literature, films, television episodes,
and many other art forms. Cooper's legacy

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will never be forgotten, extending to
the impact his crime had on aviation security

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as a whole. There's even an
annual dB Cooper Convention. No matter how

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you look at it, the hijacking
of Northwest orient Airlines Flight three oh five

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and the mystery surrounding the person only
known as dB Cooper will arguably remain the

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most known and popular unsolved crime of
all time. This one is a story

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that's captured my imagination since I was
a little boy in the nineties. I

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remember learning about dB Cooper on Unsolved
Mysteries. Unsolved Mysteries, of course,

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for any nineties kid is the ultimate
in spooky and kooky stories. I always

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wondered how did he get away with
it? I mean, did he just

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die horribly and his body was impossible
to find? Did he end up taking

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a piggyback ride on Bigfoot? Bigfoot
is pretty hard to find himself. Or

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did he simply hike into the woods
and hike out like so many other people

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have, and go on with his
life. There are a lot of popular

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suspects, people that a lot of
others think definitely are dB Cooper, but

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none of them have ever faced scrutiny, none of them have ever been proven

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to be the man, the myth
himself. But what do you think?

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Do you think dB Cooper is alive
and well? Do you think he lived

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a long life and died of natural
causes or do you think he just plane

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got shish kebobed on one of the
many, many great redwoods of the Pacific

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Northwest. I really don't know,
but I would love to find out,

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even though it has no effect on
my day to day life. Terrifying and

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True is narrated by Enrique Kuto.
This episode is written by Morgan Moore.

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produced by Daniel Wilder, with original theme

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music by Ray Maddis. If you
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