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He Hijacked a Plane, Grabbed $200K, and Jumped Into a Storm | The Unlit Room
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On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man in a business suit and clip-on tie hijacked a commercial airliner, collected $200,000 in ransom, then opened the rear door of a Boeing 727 at 10,000 feet in a thunderstorm and jumped into the darkness. He was wearing loafers. He has never been found.
The only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history — and the detail about the four parachutes that reveals just how smart he really was.
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Narration: AI-generated voice (ElevenLabs). Research: Multi-source verified. See episode sources below.
Sources: FBI Famous Cases archive; Wikipedia: D.B. Cooper; Geoffrey Gray, "Skyjack" (2011); Himmelsbach & Worcester, "NORJAK" (1986)