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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.
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The hijacking of American Flight 119 : how D.B. Cooper inspired a skyjacking craze and the FBI's battle to stop it / John Wigger.
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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.
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True crime.
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