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Part 52, page 265

DB Cooper-21943

Document date 2008

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FBI again asks: Who was D.B. Cooper?

The agency hopes someone will remember 'that odd uncle' or provide other information to identify the skyjacker.

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. — The FBI is making a new stab at identifying mysterious skyjacker Dan Cooper, releasing new details that it hopes will jog someone's memory about the man who bailed out of an airliner in 1971 and vanished. The man calling himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a Northwest flight in Portland for a flight to Seattle on the night of Nov. 24, 1971, and commandeered the plane, claiming he had dynamite. In Seattle, he demanded and got $200,000 and four parachutes and demanded to be flown to Mexico. Somewhere over southwestern Washington, he jumped out the plane's tail exit with two of the [...]