Fifty years ago, on the night before Thanksgiving, a skyjacker claiming to carry a bomb in a briefcase seized a Boeing 727 en route from Portland to Seattle. When the plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma ...

The infamous skyjacker known as D.B. Cooper revealed his real identity through a hidden message in a letter to The Oregonian in March 1972, just a few months after he parachuted from Northwest Orient ...

Infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper was really a rogue ex-Army pilot who tried to fake his own death! That's the claim of author and filmmaker Thomas Colbert — and he's suing the FBI to prove it! Colbert ...

More than 150 planes were skyjacked in the United States between 1961 and 1972. 1969 saw both the world’s longest hijacking, covering 6,900 miles, when a TWA flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco ...

2005-09-04 04:00:00 PDT Vancouver, Wash.-- Some people spend their summer days lounging on beaches or hiking up mountains. Others retreat into movie houses and bookstores. For California lawyer and ...

FBI wanted poster: “The beautiful blandness of Cooper’s face” (AP) Darrell Bob Houston was eating day-old noodles in bed when the news came over the radio. A Northwest Orient flight out of Portland ...

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz jokingly confessed that he is the notorious skyjacker D.B. Cooper. “I did it,” Cruz said, retweeting a post from the FBI on Sunday that read, “#OTD in 1971, a man calling himself ...

It’s been a rich year for students of D.B. Cooper, the mysterious skyjacker who vanished out the back of a Boeing 727 wearing a business suit, a parachute and a pack with $200,000 in ransom money 40 ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – A tangled, torn parachute found buried last month last month is not the one used by plane hijacker D.B. Cooper when he bailed out of a plane over the Pacific Northwest, the FBI said ...

Long before the current true-crime boom, a 1971 unsolved skyjacking captivated America. TV newsman Tom Colbert’s journey to solve the mystery (and sell his story to Hollywood) led him down a rabbit ...

Detectives are investigating a homicide in Washington state home owned by a man linked to the D.B. Cooper skyjacking mystery. A woman called police Friday to report that she had gone to the home in ...