Who was #DBCooper?
#DBCooper is a media epithet popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a #Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between #Portland, #OR, and #Seattle, #WA, on November 24, 1971, extorted $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,170,000 in 2015), and parachuted to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and protracted #FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified. The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in #US aviation history.
The suspect purchased his airline ticket using the alias Dan Cooper, but because of a news media miscommunication he became known in popular lore as "D. B. Cooper". Hundreds of leads have been pursued in the ensuing years, but no conclusive evidence has ever surfaced regarding Cooper's true identity or whereabouts. Numerous theories of widely varying plausibility have been proposed by experts, reporters, and amateur enthusiasts. The discovery of a small cache of ransom bills in 1980 triggered renewed interest but ultimately only deepened the mystery, and the great majority of the ransom remains unrecovered.
While FBI investigators stated from the beginning that Cooper probably did not survive his risky jump, they nevertheless pursued all credible leads, evidence, and witnesses over a 45-year period following the crime. Active investigation was terminated in July 2016; but the bureau continued to solicit physical evidence until today.
#EducationalDefinition by @JewishNews
#DBCooper is a media epithet popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a #Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between #Portland, #OR, and #Seattle, #WA, on November 24, 1971, extorted $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,170,000 in 2015), and parachuted to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and protracted #FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified. The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in #US aviation history.
The suspect purchased his airline ticket using the alias Dan Cooper, but because of a news media miscommunication he became known in popular lore as "D. B. Cooper". Hundreds of leads have been pursued in the ensuing years, but no conclusive evidence has ever surfaced regarding Cooper's true identity or whereabouts. Numerous theories of widely varying plausibility have been proposed by experts, reporters, and amateur enthusiasts. The discovery of a small cache of ransom bills in 1980 triggered renewed interest but ultimately only deepened the mystery, and the great majority of the ransom remains unrecovered.
While FBI investigators stated from the beginning that Cooper probably did not survive his risky jump, they nevertheless pursued all credible leads, evidence, and witnesses over a 45-year period following the crime. Active investigation was terminated in July 2016; but the bureau continued to solicit physical evidence until today.
#EducationalDefinition by @JewishNews