In 1971, Dan Cooper boarded a flight in Portland bound for Seattle. He hijacked the plane to Seattle where he demanded $200,000 in cash and four parachutes. The plane took off from Seattle with the marked bills. Cooper donned the parachute, tied the bank bag full of twenty dollar bills to himself, and lowered the rear stairs somewhere north of Portland and jumped into the night. Approximately 1,000 troops searched the suspected jump zone in vain. In 1980, three bundles of cash with rubberband intact were discovered by a young boy. The Cooper serial numbers matched. D.B. Cooper became famous in the book, the movie and the song.
D.B. Cooper
