Cooper, the terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks, or those scrappy prisoners from Con Air. These days, our idea of plane hijackers is either D.B. This might be the point in the story where you think, “Well, they couldn't have expected that somebody would hijack the plane.” But while apparently they didn't, they absolutely should have. “Dan Cooper” was permitted to board his flight unencumbered. He paid $18.52, and gave the name “Dan Cooper.” There was no ID checked, no security protocols of any kind. He purchased, in cash, a one-way ticket aboard Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle. He was, as the FBI described him, a 'white male, 6'1' tall, 170-175 pounds, age-mid-forties, olive complexion, brown eyes, black hair, conventional cut, parted on left.' Bettmann // Getty Imagesīut the mystery man of the hour on that November afternoon looked nothing like the gritty-but-glamorous stars of the day's premier crime dramas. The FBI released this artist’s drawing of D.B.
