S3 Ep134: D.B. Cooper: A Man With a Grudge (Part 1)
Crime Weekly
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🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 123 minutes
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It was November 24th, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving and historically the busiest day for travel in the United States. A tall man dressed in a business suit and a thin black tie approached the flight counter of Northwest Orient Airlines at the Portland International Airport and requested a one way ticket to Seattle. This man gave his name as Dan Cooper and he paid twenty dollars in cash for his ticket on Flight 305, which he boarded with 35 other passengers. Cooper took his seat all the way at the back of the plane, he ordered a bourbon and 7-UP, and then he settled in for the short 30 minute flight which was scheduled to take off from Portland, Oregon on time at 2:50 PM, Pacific Standard Time. None of the other passengers, or the six members of the flight crew, noticed anything suspicious about this nondescript business man, traveling with a briefcase and paper bag, sitting quietly by himself in seat 18-E, but that would change shortly after takeoff, when this quiet and polite man notified flight attendant Florence Schaffner that he had a bomb, and he was hijacking the plane. Cooper wanted 200 thousand dollars and four parachutes, and somewhere between Seattle Washington and Reno Nevada, this man dressed in a suit and loafers leaped from a Boeing 727 into a dark and stormy night and was never seen again.
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| 0:00.0 | It was November 24, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving and historically the busiest |
| 0:19.5 | day for travel in the United States. |
| 0:22.2 | A tall man dressed in a business suit and a thin black tie approached the flight counter |
| 0:27.9 | of Northwest Orient Airlines at the Portland International Airport and requested a one-way |
| 0:34.0 | ticket to Seattle. |
| 0:36.0 | This man gave his name as Dan Cooper and he paid $20 in cash for his ticket on flight |
| 0:41.3 | 305, which he boarded with 35 other passengers. |
| 0:45.9 | Cooper took his seat all the way at the back of the plane. |
| 0:48.8 | He ordered a bourbon and seven up and then he settled in for the short 36-minute flight, |
| 0:53.6 | which was scheduled to take off from Portland, Oregon on time at 2.50pm Pacific Standard |
| 0:59.0 | Time. |
| 1:00.0 | None of the other passengers or the six members of the flight crew noticed anything suspicious |
| 1:05.2 | about this non-descript businessman traveling with a briefcase and a paper bag, sitting |
| 1:10.4 | quietly by himself in seat 18e, but that would change shortly after take off. |
| 1:16.6 | When this quiet and polite man notified flight attendant Florence Schaffner that he had |
| 1:21.8 | a bomb and he was hijacking the plane, Cooper wanted $200,000 in four parachutes and |
| 1:29.4 | somewhere between Seattle, Washington and Reno, Nevada, this man dressed in a suit and |
| 1:35.0 | loafers leaped from a Boeing 727 into a dark and stormy night and he was never seen |
| 1:41.3 | again. |
| 1:51.8 | Hello everybody, welcome back to Crime Weekly, I'm Stephanie Harlow, and I'm Derek Lvassar. |
| 2:00.2 | So today obviously we are doing something a little bit different for crime weekly, but |
| 2:03.9 | I feel like after the Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell case, we needed something a little bit |
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