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The Federal Bureau of Investigation finally closed the case of the sensational hijacking a passenger plane in the early seventies. Staff the American Internal Intelligence Agency failed to forty-five years old find a mysterious terrorist who alone captured dozens of hostages and, without causing them any harm, received a large ransom, then mystically evaporated.
On the twenty-fourth of November 1971, an individual, traveling under the obviously fictitious name Dan Cooper, sat down aboard a Boeing 727 passenger airliner bound from Portland to Seattle. The man ordered himself a bourbon, then calmly told one of the stewardesses that he had a bomb by opening a diplomat and showing the stewardess cylindrical objects with wires. The hijacker said he needed two hundred thousand dollars (over a million by today’s standards) and a parachute.
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When the Boeing landed in Seattle, the terrorist got everything asked and let the passengers go. Cooper ordered the pilots to fly to Mexico, however, managed to quietly jump with a parachute along the way there. The plane was forced to make emergency refueling in Reno, and there he was cordoned off by special services. The assault group entered the liner and searched him from nose to tail, but the man had long been somewhere on earth.
The terrorist disappeared without a trace
The military joined the search for the terrorist. They combed territories near the Washington river in Washington state, where the criminal, supposedly landed, but all in vain. In 1980 on the banks of the Columbia River, a tributary of which Vashugal is, a child found in the sand a few packs with dollars – only about six thousand Banknotes soaked in water turned out to be part of the ransom, paid to the terrorist government. No one else discovered of this money, including in circulation (special services recorded serial number of each banknote, and sooner or later banknotes should have started to pop up). According to one version, Cooper didn’t even planned to spend the ransom.
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Boeing crew and passengers had a good look hijacker, thanks to which the FBI easily compiled a photo portrait men. The criminal also left on board his tie with traces DNA However, all of this turned out to be useless, since the terrorist was never caught. The suspects in this case were numbered hundred. They became experienced paratroopers, former military, employees of the military transport industry. None of them turned out to be wanted. Interpol Detection Efforts Cooper also failed.
History gives true mysticism. Who was the mysterious terrorist? Where did he disappear? What did you do with the money? Why not was caught? For the FBI, this case was a big headache – on accusations of incompetence rained from everywhere around the bureau. Now they’ve finished this investigation once and for all, believing that after so many years it makes no sense to him spend resources. Dan Cooper, if he is still alive, can also sigh now calmly.
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