# Plane hijacking in 71

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**Created:** [January 2, 2008, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/plane-hijacking-in-71/41088 "2008-01-02T08:01:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/plane-hijacking-in-71/41088/8 "2008-01-02T08:52:40Z")

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> **[D. B. Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper)**
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> D. B. Cooper is a media epithet popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971. He extorted $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,210,000 in 2017) and parachuted to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and protracted FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or identified. The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in commercial aviation history.\[...

Never heard of this before. Pretty amazing story.

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