An unidentified man hijacks Northwest Orient Airlines, Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, flying from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington in the U.S. The hijacker was nicknamed D. B. Cooper by the media.
He tells a flight attendant that he is armed with a bomb, demanded $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to about $1,500,000 in 2023). He later parachuted out of the aircraft with the ransom money. Despite an extensive manhunt, he was never identified or caught. More
