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Wigger, John H., 1959-
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Cooper, D. B.
Hijacking of aircraft -- United States.
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Wigger, John H., 1959-
Cooper, D. B.
Hijacking of aircraft -- United States.
MARC Display
The
hijacking
of
American
Flight
119
:
how
D
.B.
Cooper
inspired
a
skyjacking
craze
and the
FBI
's
battle
to
stop
it / John Wigger.
by
Wigger, John H., 1959-
Oxford University Press, 2024.
Call #:
364.1552 W639h
Subjects
Cooper
,
D
.
B
.
Hijacking
of aircraft -- United States.
ISBN:
9780197695753 (hc)
Description:
ix, 284 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. (some color) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"In 1971, '
D
.
B
.
Cooper
' pulled off what some call the crime of the century,
skyjacking
a Boeing 727 and parachuting into history and legend. Here'
s
a book that offers a gripping account of that still-unsolved case, based on never-before-published interviews, showing
how
it launched one of the most extraordinary eras in
American
aviation history. In November 1971, an unidentified man later anointed by the media as '
D
.B.
Cooper
' pulled off one of the most audacious crimes in aviation history,
hijacking
a Northwest Airlines
flight
over the Pacific Northwest and parachuting from the Boeing 727 with $200,000 in ransom. '
D
.
B
.
Cooper
' was never to be seen again and the
FBI
, which kept his case open for forty years, finally determined it would never be solved. Unsolved, perhaps, but much admired. Over the next seven months, a number of air pirates imitated
Cooper
's crime. None were more daring than the hijacker of
American
Airlines
Flight
119
. After commandeering the
flight
from St. Louis with a machine gun and collecting $502,500 in ransom, the
Flight
119
hijacker parachuted into the night over Indiana. Unlike
Cooper
, he was found. These two crimes were part of a wave of hijackings that occurred between 1961 and 1972, '
D
.
B
.
Cooper
' may have been the most famous, but he was far from alone. One hijacker ran across the tarmac in Reno, Nevada with a pillowcase over his head, gun in hand, to seize a United Airlines
flight
. Another collected a large ransom in Washington,
D
.C. before jumping over Honduras. Motivations in many cases remain murky, an admixture of politics, greed, derring-do, and boredom. What they had in common was
how
they transfixed the nation'
s
attention, bringing about a transformation in the ways that commercial airlines were run and
how
the laws of the skies were enforced. With its focus on the parachute hijackers, beginning with '
D
.
B
.
Cooper
,' John Wigger'
s
book gathers together the stories of this period of daring criminality and recounts them in gripping fashion, showing their effect on the public, the media, and law enforcement. Using never-before published interviews and first-hand accounts, he brings one of the most chaotic periods in U.
S
. commercial aviation to life."--Publisher.
Genre:
True crime.
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