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Since I had no idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper D. B. Cooper is a media epithet popularly used to
by cskau 11y ago
Since I had no idea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
D. B. Cooper is a media epithet popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971, extorted $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,170,000 in 2015), and parachuted to an uncertain fate.
Despite an extensive manhunt and an ongoing FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified.
The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in American aviation history.
- freditup 11y agoFor those who have never read it, the Wikipedia article reads almost like an action novel. Highly recommended (fun) reading.
- sampo 11y agoAlso Numb3rs s6e10 has a plot related to D. B Cooper.
- freditup 11y agoPrison Break tied a storyline into the D. B. Cooper story as well. A pretty popular story it seems :)
- J-dawg 11y agoAnother pop culture reference: The comedy 'Without a Paddle' is about a group of friends searching for D.B. Cooper's treasure
- sohcahtoa 11y agoThe "... in Popular Culture" section is large enough to have been spun off into it's own article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper_in_popular_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper_in_popular_cultur...
- _neil 11y agoAnd another: 30 Rock implies that Kenneth's father was D.B. Cooper. In one episode he's wearing a suit passed down from his late father. The inside pocket of the suit coat is inscribed "D.B. Cooper." Weirdly, this happened in season 6 episode 10, like the Numb3rs episode.