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D. B. Cooper is a media epithet used to describe an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 on November 24, 1971, extorted a US$200,000 ransom (equivalent to $1.51 million today [1]), and parachuted to an unknown fate. [2]
The 2017 Discovery Channel docu-series Cooper's Treasure followed by Darrell Miklos as he searched through Cooper's files to discover the location of the suspected shipwrecks. [ 95 ] [ 96 ] Cooper appeared as himself in an episode of the television series CHiPs , and during the early 1980s made regular call-in appearances on chat shows hosted ...
Twelve years after graduating from high school, three friends, Jerry, Dan, and Tom, learn that their childhood friend Billy has died in a parasailing accident. After the funeral, they revisit the group's old tree house and find a map leading to D. B. Cooper's lost treasure, which Billy had apparently been working on for his entire life.
Chanté and Rick McCoy III claim their late father, Richard McCoy Jr., is the ever-elusive Boeing hijacker DB Cooper after allegedly finding his parachute hidden in their home, according to a new ...
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Cooper's hijacking — and several imitators during the next year — immediately prompted major upgrades to security measures for airports and commercial aviation. Metal detectors were installed at airports, baggage inspection became mandatory and passengers who paid cash for tickets on the day of departure were selected for additional scrutiny.
NC governor’s race: Stein, Robinson court Lumbee, Robinson’s speech, latest on Cooper’s future. Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan. July 7, 2024 at 5:00 AM.
The Copper Scroll is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Cave 3 near Khirbet Qumran, but differs significantly from the others.Whereas the other scrolls are written on parchment or papyrus, this scroll is written on metal: copper mixed with about 1 percent tin, although no metallic copper remained in the strips; the action of the centuries had been to convert the metal into brittle oxide. [1]