D.B. Cooper: The Man Who Stole $200,000 and Disappeared Into Thin Air

On November 24, 1971, the passenger of Flight 305 handed a flight attendant a note about a bomb, collected $200,000 and four parachutes — and that night stepped out of the rear stairs of a Boeing 727 into the rain over the forests of Washington. More than 50 years have passed: the FBI ran an active investigation for 45 years, the case is formally still open — and nobody has ever learned who he was. Even the name "D.B. Cooper" is a mistake. An investigation built on open archives: the FBI case file (FBI Vault) — interviews with the flight attendants, teletypes and the 1971 crew log, the money found at Tena Bar in 1980, evidence under the electron microscope and the four main suspects. We separate the document from the myth. Chapters 0:00 Intro: the note "Miss, I have a bomb" 1:40 Part 1. Passenger 18E 5:40 Part 2. Seattle 9:57 Part 3. Twenty Minutes of Darkness 13:45 Part 4. The Name That Never Was 16:15 Part 5. The Forest 19:18 Part 6. Money in the Sand 23:33 Part 7. Evidence Under the Microscope 25:20 Part 8. Four Files 27:52 Finale Sources: FBI Records: The Vault; U.S. National Archives (NARA): EPA DOCUMERICA, U.S. Air Force, White House; Library of Congress; USGS; NASA; NYPL Digital Collections; SDASM Archives; Rijksmuseum (CC0); Wikimedia Commons. Stock: Pexels, Pixabay. Maps and the Boeing 727 diagram — LastFactum; rivers — USGS National Hydrography Dataset and Natural Earth (public domain). CC BY: Northwest Boeing 727 airstair (1975) — Robert Rynerson, CC BY 2.5 — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northwest_Boeing_727_airstair_(1975).jpg Boeing 727-251 N256US NWAL MIA 07.02.71 — RuthAS (Wikimedia Commons), CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_727-251_N256US_NWAL_MIA_07.02.71_edited-2.jpg October 1968 - Flying on a PSA 727 — Robert Couse-Baker, CC BY 2.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:October_1968_-_Flying_on_a_PSA_727.jpg Seattle International airport 2 — Piergiuliano Chesi, CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_International_airport_2.jpg Seattle International airport 1 — Piergiuliano Chesi, CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seattle_International_airport_1.jpg Western Airlines B-727 N2806W — Piergiuliano Chesi, CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Western_Airlines_B-727_N2806W.jpg Boeing 727-51 N838N Piedmont ORD 30.09.79 — RuthAS (Wikimedia Commons), CC BY 3.0 — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_727-51_N838N_Piedmont_ORD_30.09.79_edited-2.jpg Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — "Hard Boiled", "Covert Affair", "Dark Fog", "Ossuary 6 - Air", "Spy Glass", "Lost Frontier", "Unwritten Return", "Groove Grove", "Deadly Roulette", "Immersed". Licensed under CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... The narrator's voice and the "Everything is OK" line are synthesized (ElevenLabs). Composite sketches and evidence photos — FBI. #DBCooper #TrueCrime #FBI