00:00In November 1971, a quiet man boarded a Boeing 727 flying from Portland to Seattle.
00:07He used the name D.B. Cooper.
00:10He looked calm, black suit, dark sunglasses, and a small briefcase.
00:15During the flight, he quietly handed a note to a flight attendant.
00:19The note said, I have a bomb.
00:22I have a bomb.
00:24He opened the briefcase and showed wires that looked like explosives.
00:28Then he made his demand.
00:30$200,000 in cash and four parachutes.
00:34The plane landed in Seattle.
00:37Authorities had no choice but to follow his instructions.
00:40After getting the money, Cooper released all 36 passengers safely.
00:44But his plan wasn't finished.
00:46He ordered the plane to take off again and fly toward Mexico.
00:50No one on board knew what he was planning next.
00:53But what happened next shocked the entire world.
00:56Because somewhere in the dark sky, Cooper did something no hijacker had ever done before.
01:02Now the real mystery begins.
01:05The plane was flying over the dark forests of the Pacific Northwest.
01:09Rain and strong winds filled the night.
01:13Suddenly, Cooper lowered the plane's rear stairs.
01:16Cold wind rushed into the cabin.
01:18Then, with the ransom money strapped to him, he jumped out of the plane into the darkness.
01:30When the plane landed later, Cooper was gone.
01:33The Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a massive search that lasted decades.
01:38But they never found him.
01:40In 1980, a young boy discovered a small bundle of the ransom money near a riverbank.
01:46Still, Cooper himself was never found.
01:49In 2016, the FBI officially stopped the investigation.
01:54And today, the case of D.B. Cooper remains the only unsolved commercial airplane hijacking in U.S. history.
02:01Did he die in the wilderness?
02:03Or did he escape and live a secret life with the money?
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