The Man Who Jumped From Flight 305

Name: The Man Who Jumped From Flight 305
Genre: Documentary

A hijacker took the ransom, parachuted into the darkness, and became the only missing piece in an enduring American mystery.

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Transcript

A hijacker stepped from the back of Flight 305—and was never found.
With a parachute, he dropped toward uncertain fate over southwest Washington.
His jump came somewhere along the corridor between Seattle and Reno.
Beyond the falling rain, questions lingered in the dark.
On November 24th, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper bought a one-way ticket.
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 traveled from Portland to Seattle.
The drink Cooper ordered was bourbon and 7-Up.
He sat in seat 18-E, in the last row, carrying a dark briefcase.
The aircraft carried 36 passengers and six crew members.
Cooper demanded $200,000 and four parachutes for the passengers' safe return.
The aircraft circled Puget Sound for two hours as preparations continued below.
Cooper received the money and ordered the plane toward Mexico City.
Cooper opened the aircraft's aft door and deployed the airstair.
Mucklow described Cooper as not nervous and rather nice.
Mucklow also described him as not cruel or nasty.
The U.S. Attorney's office expected the case to be solved quickly.
The FBI investigated for 45 years without finding him.
The trail leads back to takeoff, when Cooper passed Florence Schaffner a note.

But the mystery began with the note a flight attendant unfolded—and what it said changed Flight 305 in seconds.

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