The History of the Hijacking
On the Thanksgiving Eve of 1971, Dan Cooper walked past the ticket booth to
wait to board a plane from Portland, Oregon to Seattle-Tacoma Airport (Sea-
Tac), Washington. He had bought a one-way ticket to Seattle with a 20-
dollar bill. He was a normal looking man of some 30 years old, he looked
so benign and business looking that no one would have ever suspected that
he would soon become a famous skyjacker. At little past 4' o clock in the
evening, he boarded Flight 305 to Seattle. Just before the plane took off
from Portland, Dan Cooper passed a note to a stew…
