Who was this man?

[10ClarionSt]

I don't know if anyone remembers about 25 yrs ago, a man hijacked a plane in the NW United States and demanded a huge ransom, along with a parachute.
They gave him both and the plane took off. Somewhere over Washington State, the man baled out with the money and has never been seen or heard of since. Who was he?

[monkeyeyes]

D B Cooper

[sir.prize]

On November the 24th, 1971, a Northwest Airlines Boeing 727 airliner headed for Reno, Nevada was hi-jacked by a man claiming to have a bomb on board. At a height of 10,000 feet, the hi-jacker parachuted out into the chilly night air. Tied securely around his waist was a knapsack containing the money he had demanded in return for not blowing up the plane. With $200,000 in $20 bills strapped to him, he vanished. The legend of D.B Cooper was born � the only hijacker in history to get away with the money � or did he?

[Whickerman]

Just btw - He's been immortalised in Prison Break (one of the characters is supposedly him) and the film Without a Paddle.

[Clanad]

Additionally, some $5,800 of the ransom money, identified by serial numbers was found on the banks of the Colombia River which is the boundary between Oregon and Washington, by an 8 year old boy on vacation with his family. This was in 1980, some 9 years after the event.
Ironic to your question is the fact that aobut a week ago, the FBI reopened the case here in the western U.S. Usually, the FBI doesn't open cold cases this old without some compelling reason.
By the way, the man's name, taken form his note demanding the money, was actually "Dan" Cooper. Apparently the moniker "D.B." came from a reporter's error...