Dan Cooper, the person of an unknown suspect responsible for the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the history of the F.B.I; most popularly know as D. B. Cooper. On November 24th, 1971, “D. B. Cooper” held an entire plane ransom for 200,000 U.S. dollars and four parachutes, one of which he used to escape the plane to jump off without knowing where he would really end up. Cooper's case is still unsolved, it's crazy and inspiring, a media fascination and several books, movies, and songs. An interesting fact, in Ariel, Washington, there is even a holiday dubbed “Cooper Day”. On the morning of November 24th, an “average looking” (as described by eyewitnesses) man dressed in a suit, complete with a briefcase, bought a ticket from Portland, Oregon …show more content…
Helen), if he did in fact land and not crash. If he had somehow managed to live through the landing, he would have been in the middle of nowhere with no survival tools as far as investigators can tell. They also took into account that he was definitely not dressed for wilderness survival, wearing just a suit, some loafers, and an overcoat. The F.B.I. led several teams to search for him on foot, as well as by helicopter, but found nothing. The F.B.I. had a long list of suspects, stating that five years after the hijack happened they had interviewed over 800 men. As they had little to nothing to go on, a lot of their suspects were tips that were called in. These tips included family members called in by suspicious relatives, deathbed confessions, and even names from psychics. One of the first to be questioned was a man named D. B. Cooper, which led to the media misreporting Cooper's fake name to be what he is known as today. Another person of interest was Richard Floyd McCoy, who was a known hijacker. Most of the suspects were ruled out by 2001, however, as advancements in technology made it possible to extract DNA from the only two things Cooper left behind: a clip-on tie and a …show more content…
This lead people to believe that he might have been a chemist or something of that sort, due to the fact that titanium was much more scarce in the 1970's than it is today. They also discovered minute particles of cerium and strontium sulfide. During the time of Dan Cooper's heist there had not been many uses for those metals, leaving investigators to narrow down his place of work. It is theorized that he may of worked at Boeing because Boeing had begun a supersonic transport development project which used those rare earth