On 24 November 1971, a man in a dark business suit and dark sunglasses asked a flight attendant for $200,000 and four parachutes. The case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in the history of commercial air travel.
It’s also one of the most tempting for citizen sleuths, whose pursuit of the criminal known as DB Cooper is partly the focus of a new four-part documentary series from Netflix. Because DB Cooper: Where are you?! is as much about the fugitive thief as it is about the people – FBI bigwigs and armchair gumshoes alike – who’ve spent the last 50 years trying to smoke him out.
