Skyjacker - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 8/30/25
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🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Guest host Ryan Wrecker and writer Eric Ulis discuss America's only unsolved skyjacking and the enigmatic bandit who pulled it off.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.1 | Since you have investigated this and have studied it closely, have you ever had a chance |
| 0:13.6 | to talk to any of the passengers on that plane? |
| 0:18.7 | Yes, the 20-year-old college student, then 20-year-old college student that I |
| 0:22.9 | referenced Bill Mitchell. I know quite well, and I've talked with him on multiple occasions about |
| 0:26.9 | this. And he's an important witness because he actually observed D.B. Cooper very closely. |
| 0:32.7 | He mentioned that he, being a 20-year-old college student, noticed that the flight attendant, who was 23 at the time, was particularly attractive. |
| 0:42.2 | And as Bill puts it, as Bill describes it, he was trying to figure out what this older guy, you know, |
| 0:47.8 | why the flight attendant was paying attention to this older guy, the entire flight, |
| 0:51.2 | because D.B. Cooper was a guy that was described as about 50 years of age. |
| 0:55.6 | So he paid particular close attention to D.B. Cooper and that obviously assisted the authorities |
| 1:01.3 | when it came time to sketching out what D.B. Cooper looked like. Right. So for the sake of investigating, |
| 1:09.4 | you have the pilots, you have the stewardesses, and you have the college student. |
| 1:16.8 | Those are primarily the three best witnesses to all of this. |
| 1:20.8 | The pilots never saw or spoke with D.B. Cooper. |
| 1:23.8 | The flight attendants did. |
| 1:26.0 | But in addition to those people, there was the gate agent, the gentleman who actually collected the ticket from the passengers as the board of the jet. |
| 1:36.3 | He happened to notice D.B. Cooper as well because the flight was slightly delayed, as I mentioned. |
| 1:41.3 | And all the passengers were kind of sitting together |
| 1:46.2 | or standing together, kind of hamming it up, talking, waiting for the flight. |
| 1:50.0 | But he noticed that D.B. Cooper was off to the side by himself and that he was all dressed all in |
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