D.B. Cooper — the hijacker who parachuted out of a 727 into the night with 200,000 dollars | Vanishe

[00:00:00]A man in a dark suit and sunglasses walked onto a plane. Then he vanished.

[00:00:05]On November 24th, 1971, a passenger calling himself Dan Cooper boarded a flight from Portland to Seattle.

[00:00:13]He ordered a bourbon. He lit a cigarette.

[00:00:16]Then he passed a note to the flight attendant.

[00:00:20]The note said he had a bomb. Cooper demanded $200,000 and four parachutes.

[00:00:26]The airline paid. The passengers walked free.

[00:00:29]Somewhere over the Cascade Mountains, he lowered the rear stairs and stepped into the rain.

[00:00:35]$200,000 in 20s weighed about as much as a bowling ball.

[00:00:40]The FBI launched the longest manhunt in American history. They questioned over a thousand suspects. They matched no one.

[00:00:48]In 1980, a boy found $6,000 buried on the Columbia River bank.

[00:00:54]>> [music] >> The serial numbers matched. It was Cooper's money.

[00:00:58]If you had jumped that night, you would have fallen through freezing rain at 200 mph into forest no one has ever fully searched. No body, no parachute, no confession.

[00:01:10]Did he survive the fall, or did the wilderness take him that same night?

[00:01:15]The story remains.