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The Thanksgiving holiday weekend is notorious for long lines at the airport and bumper to bumper traffic down the interstate. We've all done the holiday travel and when you’re packed in on a 17 inch wide seat, touching elbows with a complete stranger 35 thousand feet in the sky, you better hope that TSA did their job right. Luckily, TSA has largely gotten their program together, all from a lesson they learned in 1971, when a man named D. Cooper bought a one way flight for $20 and turned the crew's shift inside out. Once acquiring $20,000 from the airline, Cooper parachuted off of the plane mid-flight to Mexico City. His body, nor the ransom money ever to be seen again. Tune in to see how this could be possible and where law enforcement is today in the hunt for the unidentified man.
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The Thanksgiving holiday weekend is notorious for long lines at the airport and bumper to bumper traffic down the interstate. We've all done the holiday travel and when you’re packed in on a 17 inch wide seat, touching elbows with a complete stranger 35 thousand feet in the sky, you better hope that TSA did their job right. Luckily, TSA has largely gotten their program together, all from a lesson they learned in 1971, when a man named D. Cooper bought a one way flight for $20 and turned the crew's shift inside out. Once acquiring $20,000 from the airline, Cooper parachuted off of the plane mid-flight to Mexico City. His body, nor the ransom money ever to be seen again. Tune in to see how this could be possible and where law enforcement is today in the hunt for the unidentified man.
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