Who was DB Cooper?

In 1971, on a seemingly pleasant afternoon in Portland, Oregon, a man named DB Cooper bought a one-way ticket to Seattle, Washington at the Northwest Orient Airlines. Cooper was described as a man in his mid-forties wearing a business suit, white shirt, and a black tie, which he removed just moments before jumping out of a Boeing 727 aircraft.

Before then, Cooper quietly sat on his seat. And as portrayed in the first episode of Loki, DB Cooper asked for a drink while waiting for take-off. While the plane was in the air, Cooper handed a stewardess a note saying, "Miss, I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me".

The hijacker demanded USD200,000 (estimated PHP9,629,300) in twenty-dollar bills. Once the plane landed in Seattle, Cooper received the money and parachutes in exchange for the flight’s 36 passengers. But Cooper kept some of the flight crew members before the plane took off and headed for Mexico City.

However, around Seattle and Reno, Cooper jumped out of the back of the plane with a parachute and the ransom money, leaving only his black tie behind.

Was the case ever solved?

The FBI has worked on the case for years, with more than 800 suspects, yet to no avail.

Richard Floyd McCoy, one of the suspects on the list, was once arrested for hijacking and jumping out of a plane in 1972. Although his methods were seemingly comparable to Cooper's, he was ruled out as his physical features were not a match.

In 1980, a young boy camping with his family unearthed USD6,000 cash while digging a firepit along the Columbia River. The dollar bills were bound with elastic bands. Some believed that the money must have been washed away from the waters, while others theorise that Cooper must have buried the bills himself.

Either way, Cooper's disappearance was never solved and remains one of the most mysterious cases in the world.

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