Today News One night before American Thanksgiving, a 40-year-old man in public attire, who gave his name as Don Cooper, arrived at the airport counter and bought a one-way ticket for a short flight from Portland to Seattle.
Within
hours, he was carrying a bag full of 200,000 (now 13 1.3 million), which he
found in ransom, and then he jumped out of the plane wearing a parachute, after
which he was never found. ۔
The media
nicknamed him DB Cooper. Even 50 years after the man jumped from the plane to
an unknown location, the hijacking is the only mystery in American history that
remains unsolved.
The US Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has described Cooper as a "quiet man"
who appeared in the 1940s. He was wearing a white shirt and a black tie
business suit.
He ordered
bourbon and soda while waiting for the plane to take off. His plan was very
simple. After the plane took off, Cooper handed the slip to the flight
attendant.
The
attendant did not immediately respond to a request for comment, saying:
"Miss, you better look at the slip. I have a bomb. "
After seeing
a bunch of wires in Cooper's briefcase, the terrified flight attendant wrote
down his demands for four parachutes and لاکھ 200,000. The attendant took these
demands to the captain of the plane as directed.
After the
plane landed in Seattle, Cooper allowed 36 passengers to board in exchange for
money and parachutes. The money and parachutes were provided by the FBI.
Cooper
demanded that the aircraft be flown again and at lower altitudes, with the crew
of the aircraft as collateral.
This time
the plane was heading for Mexico. Somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Noida,
Cooper jumped out of the back door of a Boeing 727. That night was very cold.
The FBI
launched an extensive investigation into the incident, but to no avail.
Even after
interviewing 800 suspects over a period of more than five years, no trace of
the hijacker or his parachute was found and questins arose.
Did they
survive after jumping off the plane? Could their clothes and other belongings
accompany them for a long time in the extremely cold forest?
According to researcher and historian Eric Yoles: "He is a man who adopted the style of James Bond."
The History
Channel also made a documentary about the Ulysses Cooper mystery. Yulus has
investigated the incident and has been writing about it for 14 years.
The case was
investigated by FBI Special Agent Marie Jane Freer in the 2000s. He says Cooper
has become a "folklore hero" in the United States after stealing at
high altitudes.
She
described the current public interest in the case as a "belief" based
on the fact that the hijacker was never identified.
Over the
years, various hypotheses have emerged, some of which are far-fetched. Several
people lying on the deathbed also claimed to be DB Cooper.
The FBI
reviewed the profiles of several suspects. For example, amateur pilot and
transgender woman Barbara Dayton, who allegedly confessed in front of her
friends, or Lynn Doyle Cooper, whose niece believed she was involved in the
incident, because the same year when she celebrated Thanksgiving. When he came
to dinner, his body was covered with blood and his condition was bad.
Fryer also
interviewed Sheridan Peterson, a veteran of World War II.
Finally, in
2016, the FBI closed the case file to focus on other cases.
Ullis says
law enforcement did a "very good job" overall, despite "a few
serious mistakes."
He argues
that the FBI took the wrong route and that DB Cooper landed miles away from the
search.
Thus the
mystery surrounding this incident is of interest to American citizens.
Items
attributed to DB Cooper can be easily purchased online. The items include
coffee cups, T-shirts, bumper stickers and socks.
The DB
Cooper Strip Club also opened in Texas, which was later closed.
