On the afternoon of November 24, 1971, a quiet man walked into an airline counter in Portland, Oregon, bought a one-way ticket to Seattle and boarded Flight #305. Within hours, he would exchange the passengers for parachutes and $200,000 in cash. Then, somewhere between Seattle and Reno, he disappeared into the darkness, as per a report by the FBI.
More than a half-century later, the mystery surrounding the man who called himself Dan Cooper remains unresolved. The FBI investigated the case for years, examined evidence, followed hundreds of leads and considered hundreds of suspects, yet never established who he really was or what happened after his jump.
