121 - The DB Cooper Hijack Mystery

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Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

November 24th, 1971. The day before Thanksgiving. Dan Cooper, also known as DB Cooper, shows up at the Portland, Oregon airport looking like your average business traveler. Over the next few hours, he pulled off the most mysterious airplane hijacking in US aviation history. He took $200,000 in ransom money from the FBI, jumped out of a plane and disappeared into the thick forests of the Pacific Northwest. He was never found, caught, or even positively identified. We explore this mystery and look into the epidemic of air piracy that plagued the US in the late 1960s and early 1970s, today, on Timesuck. Timesuck is brought to you by the The Great Courses Plus! Start your free trial now only at TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/TIMESUCK Want to try out Discord!?! Click HERE! Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/l1LgmqmTaXM Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 3500 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits!

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0:00.0	November 24th, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving, Dan Cooper, also known as DB Cooper,
0:06.9	shows up at the Portland Oregon Airport, looking like your average business traveler,
0:10.3	clean shaven dude in a business suit, hold a small paper bag in a briefcase.
0:14.3	He pays $20 in cash for a short flight to the Seattle Tacoma C-Tack Airport.
0:20.0	Witnesses would claim later he looked like he was about 35 to 40 years old,
0:23.7	hit receding black hair, wore wrap around sunglasses and chain smoke.
0:28.1	The Portland Tick-An-Agent he approached at the counter that day,
0:30.9	how Williams gave him seat 18C in coach. He'd be taking Northwest Orient Airlines
0:37.6	Flight 305, a Boeing 727 with the capacity of 94 passengers, only 37 customers would be on board
0:46.0	for the half-hour John at that day. Shortly after takeoff, DB Cooper got the attention of
0:50.7	Sturdus, Florence Schaffner, and handed her a note. She assumed it was one more and a long line of
0:56.8	comments from men traveling by themselves on business because apparently that happened all the time
1:02.3	in the 1970s. She stuffed the unread note in her pocket and headed down the aisle. When she came
1:06.8	back down the aisle, DB Cooper waved her over, motioned for her to lean in close, looked directly
1:12.0	into her eyes and calmly said, you'd better read that, I have a bomb.
1:16.9	And that is how the mysterious man we know by the name of DB Cooper kicked off one of the very
1:22.6	few successful airplane hijacks in US aviation history. And this mystery is thoroughly explored,
1:28.7	including who investigators both professional and amateur think DB Cooper really was on today's,
1:35.1	can you believe the balls and that guy? I can't believe that he a did that and B seems to have
1:40.8	gotten away with it, addition of Time Suck.
1:53.4	Happy fucking 2019 Time Suggers.
2:00.7	Ready or not, it's here, we're doing it, we all made it, all of us listening made it.
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