ransom, two sets of parachutes and ordered the pilots to fly to Mexico. On the way there, he jumped out of a plane with a parachute over the forest and mountains. Since then, no one has seen him again. The police and the FBI have been looking for him for more than 40 years, and they had more than a thousand suspects, but Cooperʼs identity was never established.
The investigation assumed that he did not survive the jump, but neither the body, nor the parachute, nor any other evidence was ever found. The kidnapper had many fans and imitators, books were written about him, documentaries and feature films were shot.
One of the last references was in the Loki series. After that, security measures were enhanced at the airports. 45 years later, the FBI decided to suspend the investigation — “until new evidence and details appear.” Babel tells about the only unsolved hijacking of a plane in the history of civil aviation.
An inconspicuous thief with unusual demands
On the afternoon of November 24, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving
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A popular North American family holiday, in the USA it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. The main dish of Thanksgiving is a baked turkey., a middle-aged man named Dan Cooper bought a cash ticket to Seattle on a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 at the Portland airport.
He was unremarkable in appearance. Age — about 40 years, height — about 180 centimeters, weight — about 80 kilograms, brown eyes, dark skin, wearing a light black coat, dark suit, white shirt, black tie with a clasp and mother-of-pearl pin, on feet moccasins, in hands a small suitcase-portfolio — this is how witnesses will describe it.
