It is November 24, 1971 and the day before Thanksgiving. Flight 305 from the Portland to Seattle airport was set to take off at 2:50pm and arrive just about a half hour later, however a man who checked in under the name Dan Cooper causes this flight to drastically change and becomes the first person to ever hijack a plane for ransom in the United States. Who is Dan Cooper? What happened on that day? Listen for the details of this wild case and let us know your theories and thoughts!

Resources:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d-b-cooper-intothin-air-the-1971-skyjacking-america/id1505092677?i=1000737358376

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper#Theories,_hypotheses_and_conjecture

https://www.history.com/articles/who-was-d-b-cooper

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/db-cooper-hijacking

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/mystery-db-cooper-hijacker-who-disappeared

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/november-24/hijacker-parachutes-into-thunderstorm

https://people.com/fbi-files-db-cooper-case-reveal-strange-new-clues-11766872

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooper-vortex/id1439712498

EP 57: D.B. Cooper: The First Ever American Hijacking for Ransom