How 3 Particles Found on a Tie Could Finally Identify Skyjacker D.B. Cooper

When it comes to cold cases, few continue to simmer quite like the D.B. Cooper skyjacking of Thanksgiving Eve 1971—the only unsolved commercial airline hijacking. And thanks to continued interest from amateur sleuths (and law enforcement welcoming that assistance by opening up all related case data to the public), we may have new clues in the investigation, rooted in science, that could finally help nail down the skyjacker.

The unknown skyjacker of a Northwest Orient Airlines plane, headed from Portland to Seattle, has baffled the world for over 50 years. After landing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the skyjacker had the pilots take off again, this time with $200,000 worth of ransom cash and parachutes in hand, only to jump from the plane over southwest Washington... never to be seen again.

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Along with a strong knowledge of airplanes and parachutes, law enforcement officials believe D.B. Cooper had a solid connection to the Pacific Northwest based on comments he made during the flight about the terrain below. On November 24, 1971, he paid cash for a one-way ticket to Portland and boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305 as Dan Cooper, without being required to offer up identification due to a lack of regulations at the time.

Carrying with him a briefcase and paper sack, Cooper passed a note to a flight attendant seated behind him halfway through the flight, and whispered that she better look at the note since he had a bomb. He opened his briefcase to reveal what appeared to be a bomb and then relayed his demands of $200,000, multiple parachutes, and a refueling truck on the ready in Seattle so he could take off again, bound for Mexico City.

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Somewhere still over Washington, D.B. Cooper opened the rear staircase and parachuted from the plane, but the exact location and timing is unknown. Immediate searches yielded no evidence, and over the years, experts have been unable to determine an exact search area due to the multiple variables involved in the night jump.

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Is this him?

Good stuff!