D. B. Cooper is a media epithet for an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 on November 24, 1971, extorted a US$200,000 ransom, and parachuted to an unknown fate. Only $5,880 of the ransom money
A street artist poses as a "living statue" of Cooper at the Portland Saturday Market in Portland, Oregon
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The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper
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The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper is a 1981 American crime thriller film about infamous aircraft hijacker D. B. Cooper, who escaped with $200,000 after leaping from the back of a Boeing 727 airliner on Nove
D. B. Cooper in popular culture
…account of what might have happened to Cooper after he parachuted from the plane. J.D. Reed's 1980 novel Free Fall was used as a basis for the 1981 film The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper. Elwood Reid's 2004 novel D. B.: a novel is a fictionalized account of what supposedly happened to the real Cooper in the years following the hijacking…
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