FBI
closes the
case on one of
America's greatest mysteries
Dan Cooper walked up to the **rthwest Orient Airlines ticket counter in Portland, Oregon, on **v. 24, 1971, and paid cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle.
Cooper, dark-haired and sporting a white shirt with a black tie, perhaps in his 40s, boarded the plane. He ordered a bourbon and soda before the flight took off. Then, he got the attention of a flight attendant, and passed her a **te to say he had a bomb in his briefcase.*
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Cooper asked the stewardess to
sit with him. He popped open the briefcase, revealed a nest of wires, then snapped it shut again. He told the attendant to write down what he said, then demanded $200,000 in $20 bills, as well as four parachutes.*
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