He Hijacked A Plane Then Jumped with $200K & Vanished: The Unsolved D.B. Cooper Case

Episode 323,   Nov 21, 10:00 AM

November 24th, 1971, was a routine, busy day at Portland International Airport. As it was Thanksgiving day, hundreds of passengers made their way through the airport, many purchasing their tickets at the counter, hoping to make it home for the holiday. Little did they know, that they were going to be sharing that plane with the most famous (or infamous) hijacker of all time. The one and only unsolved hijacking in American aviation history; Dan, or DB, Cooper.

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Timestamps:
Intro 0:00
The calm beginnings of DB Cooper's Story 5:32
A Man in Black(?) With a Bomb 12:19
Aviation in the 70s was wild... 13:34
The Golden Age of Hijackings 15:48
Giving in to Cooper's demands 18:51
A Gentleman or a Good Actor? 25:03
Getting the Money and Taking Off 28:39
The Dummy Parachute Issue 33:12
Bailing Out over Washington 41:42
The Ensuing FBI Investigation 46:57
Did DB Cooper Survive? 55:04
The Real McCoy? 1:03:04
Finding Money under the Bar 1:09:12
The End of the Line? 1:17:19
The Death on Impact and Tina Mucklow Theory 1:23:39
Simple Answers for Complicated Situations 1:30:48
Final Thoughts & Outro 1:38:26

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