A Primer on the D. B. Cooper Mystery

Darian West
9 min readNov 26, 2019
A Primer on the D. B. Cooper Mystery

In 1971, a mysterious man wearing a suit boarded a flight from Portland to Seattle, ordered some drinks, hijacked the plane, negotiated a ransom, refueled the plane, took off again and parachuted out into the void of infinite forests of the Pacific Northwest with a suitcase full of money. Who was he?

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Darian West

I ferret out things that interest me and then I write about them with fervor. Love me.