Newly released FBI files reveal fresh details about D.B. Cooper’s infamous 1971 hijacking, including his flight expertise and the hunt for suspects.

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. The case of the elusive D.B. Cooper stands as aviation’s most captivating unsolved mystery since Amelia Earhart vanished without a trace. For over ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) newly released file on the infamous 1971 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 hijacking reveals intriguing details about the perpetrator whom authorities ...

Back in 1971, a man known as D.B. Cooper parachuted out of a plane flying over the Pacific Northwest with $200,000 ransom strapped to his body. Ever since, the FBI has been investigating to determine ...

Out of all America's skyjackings, only one remains unsolved. The case has confounded FBI investigators for decades -- its astonishing details, clues and alleged participants have become the stuff of ...

On Nov. 24, 1971, a man identified himself as "Dan Cooper" to an agent at the Northwest Orient Airlines counter in Portland International Airport. He boarded a flight to Seattle. Once on board, he ...

A group of family, friends and investigators in Michigan is claiming that a former military paratrooper is notorious Northwest skyjacker D.B. Cooper. Some of their evidence, however, diverges from ...

Let me be clear on one thing. I’ve always have had a fascination with the DB Cooper case ever since I first read about him in high school that since then, I’ve been trying to write a screenplay about ...

Marla Cooper was 8 years old when, she tells ABC News, she saw her uncle Lynn Doyle Cooper at her grandma’s house in the Pacific Northwest around Thanksgiving. He was “wearing a white t-shirt and was ...

It's a bombshell development in a 45-year-old cold case mystery. A commercial airplane hijacker escaped with a daring parachute jump in 1971 and was never seen again. Other WRAL Top Stories A team of ...