In 1971, Dan Cooper hijacked a plane, collected $200,000, and jumped out of the aircraft during a thunderstorm over Washington state, becoming the only unsolved hijacking in American history despite a 45-year FBI investigation involving 800 suspects and thousands of leads.
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In 1971, a man in a business suit pulled off the only unsolved hijacking [music] in American history. Dan Cooper was polite, calm. He ordered bourbon and soda, then quietly told the flight attendant he had a bomb. After landing, he released the passengers, collected $200,000, then asked the crew [music] to fly toward Mexico City. Somewhere over southwestern Washington, in a raging [music] thunderstorm, Cooper lowered the aft stairs and jumped into the darkness.
The FBI searched for 45 [music] years, 800 suspects, thousands of leads. They never found him.
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