MONEYBAG VECTOR REGISTRATION
Cooper boarded the aircraft, a Boeing 727-100 ( FAA registration N467US), carrying with him a briefcase and a brown paper bag. He purchased his airline ticket as "Dan Cooper" and used cash to purchase a one-way ticket on Flight 305, a thirty-minute trip north to Seattle–Tacoma International Airport (Sea–Tac). On Thanksgiving eve, November 24, 1971, a man carrying a black attaché case approached the flight counter of Northwest Orient Airlines at Portland International Airport. By 1973, the pace of hijackings greatly slowed as the new security measures successfully dissuaded would-be hijackers whose motive was only money. Aircraft design was modified with Cooper vanes that would prevent the aft staircase from being lowered while in flight. Metal detectors and compulsory searching of baggage became standard, and paying for flights the same day of their departure with cash became a cause for scrutiny. Cooper's brazen hijacking, and a slew of Cooper imitators in the following year, caused security procedure to become stricter. The hijacking had major implications for commercial aviation and airport security. The FBI officially suspended active investigation of the case in July 2016. The FBI's best guess is that Cooper did not survive the jump, for several reasons: the rainy and dangerous conditions for skydiving on the night of the hijacking Cooper's lack of proper equipment the landing area being a wilderness the apparent lack of detailed knowledge Cooper had of his landing area and the rest of the ransom money never turning up even after decades, suggesting it was never spent. Numerous theories of widely varying plausibility have been proposed over the years by investigators, reporters, and amateur enthusiasts. The crime remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history. Despite compiling an extensive case file over that period, the FBI reached no definitive conclusions regarding Cooper's true identity or fate. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) maintained an active investigation for 45 years after the hijacking. The man purchased his airline ticket using the alias Dan Cooper but, because of a news miscommunication, became known in popular culture as D. A small portion of the ransom was found along the banks of the Columbia River in 1980, which triggered renewed interest but ultimately only deepened the mystery the great majority of the ransom remains unrecovered. The hijacker extorted $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,338,000 in 2021), asked to be flown to Mexico City, then parachuted to an uncertain fate over southwestern Washington part-way through the second flight. The aircraft was flying from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington. Cooper is a media epithet used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft operated by Northwest Orient Airlines, in United States airspace on the afternoon of November 24, 1971. N467US, the aircraft involved in the hijackingīetween Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washingtonĭ.
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