The hijacking remains the only unsolved air piracy criminal case in American aviation history, Heritage Auctions said.

William Rataczak, who served as co-pilot on the infamous 1971 flight hijacked by the mysterious DB Cooper, has died. Rataczak, a former Air Force pilot and Northwest Orient Airlines employee, passed ...

In the early 1970s, a man using the alias D.B. Cooper managed to hijack a plane, receive a $200,000 ransom, and parachute into the night sky over Washington. Maite joined the AS USA in 2021, bringing ...

November 24, 1971.In the United States, a man hijacked a passenger plane.The man demanded $200,000 and four parachutes, and ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. You wouldn’t jump out of an airplane wearing a tie. So, naturally, the most famous skyjacker to never be found, the dapper D.B. Cooper, took his tie ...

William Rataczak, a retired Northwest Airlines pilot who was on the flight deck during the infamous 1971 D.B. Cooper hijacking, has died at the age of 86. The D.B. Cooper hijacking involved demands ...

It's been more than half a century since DB Cooper entered crime lore by parachuting out of a plane he hijacked in the Northwest, and an amateur sleuth thinks he has cracked the case thanks to the ...

The parachute used by the hijacker known as D.B. Cooper to leap out of a Boeing plane with $200,000 in cash after taking the passengers and crew hostage more than 50 years ago may have been found.

Nov. 26 (UPI) --The mysterious identity of 1970s airline hijacker D.B. Cooper may have finally been solved by the children of the prime suspect, a podcaster, and a newly discovered parachute. Chante ...

For over 50 years, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have worked tirelessly to solve the DB Cooper mystery. Sunday marked 53 years since the man using that very name parachuted out of a ...