On the night before Thanksgiving in 1971, a man using the name Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing

727 and extorted $200,000 before dawning a parachute and jumping off the plane into

the night, never to be seen again.

Today, we will be discussing the only unsolved piracy case in commercial aviation history,

DB Cooper. Welcome to the Red Web.

Welcome back another episode of the Red Web. Today, Alfredo, we are diving into something a little

bit more traditional outside of the realm of the net. We got real-life people. I'm Trevor Collins,

your mystery enthusiast, and I got Alfredo Diaz with me. Hello, hello.

So this one is a very popular one. Have you heard of this one before?

No, not at all, but I will say that this one automatically seals my thought every time I watch

like a, I don't know, like certain heist videos. I'm just like, well, why don't they just

jump out of the plane with all the goods? I did it. He did it. He disappeared, never to be seen

again. But there's a lot of intrigue here as we dig into who this man is, what happened with

the money and himself and everything else because there's a lot of unknown variables here.

And like I said, it's the only unsolved piracy case in commercial aviation history. Who pirates,

like I'm a plane pirate, baby. That's nuts. That's pretty great. With 200K. 200K.

Damn, you know what? Like it's crazy. That is not that much money.

In 1971? I think it's a day of dollars. Oh, wait, no, 1971, yes. Yeah, yeah.

And today's dollars, that's like 1.26 million. Yeah. Oh, I mean, yeah, you could buy yourself a house.

You can, you could get a little bit of this in that. Then if it's like, if it's in bills,

can't they just trace it? I don't, all right, I'm getting ahead of myself. We're getting ahead.

We'll get in the head. We'll get there. I appreciate where your head's at. You're in the right

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