During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachuted from Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 that he had hijacked, with US$200,000 in ransom money.

It Happened on
November 24, 1971

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He was never apprehended, and nearly 50 years later, the case would remain the only unsolved skyjacking in history.

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D. B. Cooper

unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971

born on August 30, 1972

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On August 30, 1972, the actress Cameron Diaz was born.


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D. B. Cooper

unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971