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UNSOLVED: The Case of D.B. Cooper
On the eve of Thanksgiving 1971, when most families were prepping turkeys and baking pumpkin pies, a middle-aged man, about 6ft in height, wearing a dark raincoat, thin black tie, neatly pressed white shirt and carrying a black attaché case, approached the counter of Northwest Orient Airlines.
He bought a one-way ticket to Seattle on Flight 305 and gave his name as Dan Cooper. Cooper then walked out to the plane and took his seat 18C, on the last row of the Boeing 727 placed the attaché case on his lap, ordered a bourbon and water and waited for take-off.
At approximately 2:50pm, Flight 305, with it 35 passengers onboard, took off and began its half-hour journey to Seattle. The crew on board were Captain William Scott, co-pilot Bob Rataczak. Flight attendants were Alice Hancock, Florence Schaffner and Tina Mucklow and finally engineer, Harold Anderson.
A short time after take-off, around 3pm, Cooper handed Florence Schaffner a note. She took the note, politely smiled and put the note in her pocket. with the note out of mind and out of sight, stowed in her pocket, Schaffner continued her duties in the cabin, serving drinks and seeing to the needs of passengers. Cooper eventually called her over, once more. He leaned in close and whispered “Miss, I think you’d better look at the note… I have a bomb.”
And so begins the story of D.B. Cooper and in this episode Shaun tells us about what happened, the FBI investigation that followed and an examination of some of the suspects that have claimed to be D.B. Cooper.
You can find us on: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/textmepod/ and Twitter - https://twitter.com/TextMePod and Discord - https://discord.gg/qNhWuHYW
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By Sophie Hardbattle, Craig Gilchrist, Shaun RussellOn the eve of Thanksgiving 1971, when most families were prepping turkeys and baking pumpkin pies, a middle-aged man, about 6ft in height, wearing a dark raincoat, thin black tie, neatly pressed white shirt and carrying a black attaché case, approached the counter of Northwest Orient Airlines.
He bought a one-way ticket to Seattle on Flight 305 and gave his name as Dan Cooper. Cooper then walked out to the plane and took his seat 18C, on the last row of the Boeing 727 placed the attaché case on his lap, ordered a bourbon and water and waited for take-off.
At approximately 2:50pm, Flight 305, with it 35 passengers onboard, took off and began its half-hour journey to Seattle. The crew on board were Captain William Scott, co-pilot Bob Rataczak. Flight attendants were Alice Hancock, Florence Schaffner and Tina Mucklow and finally engineer, Harold Anderson.
A short time after take-off, around 3pm, Cooper handed Florence Schaffner a note. She took the note, politely smiled and put the note in her pocket. with the note out of mind and out of sight, stowed in her pocket, Schaffner continued her duties in the cabin, serving drinks and seeing to the needs of passengers. Cooper eventually called her over, once more. He leaned in close and whispered “Miss, I think you’d better look at the note… I have a bomb.”
And so begins the story of D.B. Cooper and in this episode Shaun tells us about what happened, the FBI investigation that followed and an examination of some of the suspects that have claimed to be D.B. Cooper.
You can find us on: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/textmepod/ and Twitter - https://twitter.com/TextMePod and Discord - https://discord.gg/qNhWuHYW