Just before Thanksgiving 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper bought a $20 one-way ticket on Northwest Airlines flight 305 from Portland to Seattle. He was said to be nondescript—just a ...
The mystery started when a man using the name "Dan Cooper" boarded Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 on November 24, 1971. With a bomb threat, he demanded $200,000 in cash (roughly $1.54 ...