The Mysterious Case of DB Cooper

In November of 1971, passengers on a routine flight from Portland to Seattle settled in for an easy trip through Northwest skies, but one man on board had other plans. Mid-flight, he calmly revealed he carried a bomb and demanded $200,000 in cash and four parachutes. Hours later, somewhere over the stormy forests of Washington, he opened the rear staircase of the plane and leapt into the darkness… never to be seen again. Who was the mysterious man we now call D.B. Cooper and did he survive the jump?

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