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I'm your host, Danny, and today we are talking about D.B. Cooper.

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On November 24, 1971, a nondescript man in his mid-40s hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305.

This man went by the alias, Dan Cooper. Cooper was a quiet man wearing a

business suit with a black tie and a white shirt and brown shoes. He used cash to buy a one-way

ticket on the flight from Portland, Oregon, bound for Seattle, Washington. While the flight

was waiting to take off, he ordered a bourbon and soda,

and he seemed calm, cool, collected. He handed the stewardess a note, which she initially

just put into her pocket thinking, this is some businessman trying to give me his number, which I bet in

the 1970s was like super common. So she was like, cool, whatever.

She put it in her pocket.

Seeing that, he was like, miss, you might want to read that note.

The note stated that he had a bomb and that she should sit next to him.

When she sat next to him, she asked to see the bomb and he opened his briefcase and showed her what looked like eight sticks of dynamite,

although I've seen some sources say six, six, and some sources say four sticks.

We're going to go with eight tied to a battery with wires kind of going all over the place.

He then ordered her to write down and deliver to the pilot that he demanded four parachutes,

two front and two back parachutes, and $20,000 and $20 bills delivered to him on the plane when they landed in Seattle. That's equivalent to about

$1.5 million today. And by requesting two sets of parachutes, it implied that he was going to take a

hostage with him, which ensured that he wouldn't get

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