D. B. Cooper Hijacking Incident

Date: November 24, 1971 • Location: Washington, United States

After collecting a ransom payout of $200,000, D. B. Cooper (depicted) parachuted out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked over the Pacific Northwest and disappeared.

On November 24, 1971, an unidentified man using the alias Dan Cooper, later erroneously known as D. B. Cooper, hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft flying from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington. Cooper told the flight crew he had a bomb, and demanded $200,000 in ransom and four parachutes upon landing in Seattle.