D.B. Cooper: The Hijacker Who Got Away
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Golden Age of High Jacking
In the golden age of high jacking, hijackers wanted to go to cuba. The standard advice at the time was for flight crews and passengers to co operate with them. But after nine 11, it could no longer be taken for granted that hyjackers just wanted transportation or money. They could be built on killing people, no matter what they told you.
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Fifty years ago, Dan Cooper boarded a short flight to Seattle and then hijacked the plane. After getting $200,00 in ransom, he parachuted out of the plane, never to be seen again. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask who he really was, how he pulled off the plot, and what happened to him after.
