Dan Cooper: 50 years later, mysterious hijacker’s aerial leak still haunts US | FBI | EC stories | The world

Previous Thanksgiving Day 1971 and United States, In the forties a desperate man who calls himself Dan Cooper walked to the airport counter and bought a one-way ticket for a short flight from Portland (east) to Seattle.

Hours later A bag with a ransom of $ 200,000 was built into his body – today it would be about $ 1.3 million – and parachuted from the plane. They never found it.

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Fifty years later his jump is known as the case DP Cooper – A nickname created by the media – The only unresolved hijacking in American history.

It was classified by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Intelligence (FBI) “A quiet man who appeared in his 40s in a business suit with a black tie and white shirt.”

He ordered bourbon and soda inside the plane while he waited for departure.

His plan is very simple. After the flight departed, Cooper He handed the maid a note. She did not respond immediately, so she walked over and said: “Miss, you take a good look at that note. I have a bomb.

After seeing the weights of cables that were in her briefcase, the flight attendant, very upset, wrote her requests.Four parachutes and $ 200,000– and took them to the captain as instructed.

When the plane landed in Seattle, Cooper allowed 36 passengers to board the FBI ship in exchange for cash and parachutes.

Holding the crew hostage for safety, he demanded that the plane take off again and fly low, this time heading to Mexico City.

But somewhere between Seattle and Renault, Nevada, Cooper jumped out the back door of a Boeing 727 and got lost on a cold winter night.

Human hunting

The FBI launched an extensive investigation, but after weeks of searching in the dense and rugged jungles of northwestern America, investigators found nothing.

More than five years later, after 800 interviews with suspects, there is still no sign of the kidnapper or his parachute.

Did he jump and survive? Will their clothes and accessories last longer in the freezer?

These and other questions remain unanswered.

“James Bond”

“He introduced himself in the style of James Bond.” Cooper’s own quest to solve the mystery is the subject of a History Channel documentary, said investigator Eric Ulis.

Ulis, a historian who has been researching and writing about this case for almost 14 years, also organized a conference called CooperCon for other activists on the mystery of the hijackings.

Mary Jean Fryer, the FBI’s special agent in the 2000s, served on the investigation.

Cooper, Said, He became “a folk hero” in the United States after his tall robbery.

He describes the current wave of interest surrounding the case as a “cult”, triggered by the fact that the kidnapper has not been found.

Some unbelievable theories, developed over the years, and dozens of people, sometimes on their deathbed, said DP Cooper.

Researchers of FBI They examined many intriguing profiles, such as Barbara Dayton, an amateur pilot and transgender, who is said to have confessed to her friends; Lynn Doyle Cooper, at a Thanksgiving party that year, announced that his niece had confirmed her participation after she was shown bleeding and injured; And Sheridan Patterson, interviewed by WWII player Fryar.

The FBI finally closed the case in 2016 “to focus on other investigative priorities.”

Despite some “significant errors,” Ulysses said the federal police generally did a “very good job.”

In his view, the FBI was wrong on the runway, so DB Cooper would have landed miles away from the vast search area.

But the light of mystery surrounding this matter continues to fascinate Americans.

DP Cooper devices are available for sale online: Fans can choose from coffee mugs, T-shirts, car stickers and socks, until it closed, there was even a DP Cooper Strip Club in the state from Texas.

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