D.B.Cooper
At 8:14 p.m. on a rainy Thanksgiving eve in 1971, a passenger aboard a Boeing 727 flying from Seattle to Reno, parachuted from 10,000 feet into total blackness above a remote wilderness area, and disappeared. The man the news later identified as D.B.Cooper had begun this adventure by using a fake bomb to empty the plane of passengers and one flight attendant at the Seattle airport. He then demanded and received $200,000 and 4 parachutes, and instructed the flight crew and the remaining flight attendant to fly to Reno and refuel before proceeding to Mexico City. He wore a business suit, tie with a tie clip, dark Northwest Airlines flight #305 on Seattle tarmac awaiting money and parachutes prior to taking off for Reno. glasses, and was described by both flight attendants as a quiet, calm and polite gentleman in his mid-to-late forties. While on the ground in a darkened cabin waiting to take off for Reno, he ordered a 2nd bourbon and...