On the busiest travel day in 1971, a hijacker commandeered Northwest Airlines' Flight 305, as it was en route from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington. Upon landing in Seattle, he got what he'd asked for - four parachutes and $200,000 cash - and when the passengers had disembarked, he ordered the plane on to Mexico. But they'd only been in the air for a few minutes when the hijacker tied the cash to his body, strapped on the parachute, and jumped off the plane, disappearing forever into the dense forest of southeast Washington State. 

On this episode, we're talking plane travel, air piracy, flight attending, and of course, the mystery of DB Cooper.

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Sources for this episode include:

The official FBI report, which is online at FBI.gov

"The Hunt for D.B. Cooper Continues", by D. Tolentino for MuckRock, 2018

"Diatoms constrain forensic burial timelines: case study with DB Cooper money", by T. G. Kaye & M. Meltzer, Scientific Reports, 2020