The Legend of DB CopperOn November 24, 1971, a man named Dan Cooper purchased a plane ticket from the Northwest Orient Airlines ticket office in Portland, Oregon. Dan Cooper paid cash for a one-way ticket from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington. Dan Cooper boarded a Boeing 727 carrying 37 passengers and 5 crew members. What followed was a series of events that stunned law enforcement and amateur sleuths for over 40 years. Who is DB Cooper? Dan Cooper, now famously known as DB Cooper due to a media blunder in the early days of the investigation, was the embodiment of anonymous being about 45 years old, about 6 feet tall and weighing about 175 pounds. DB Cooper wore a typical Homburg style suit and hat, typical of men in the early 1970s. He had brown eyes, short brown hair, and wore no facial hair. DB Cooper was a white man and spoke without a discernible accent. No passenger or crew member paid special attention to DB Cooper before boarding the airliner. Shortly after takeoff DB Cooper handed a note to Flo Schaffner, a flight attendant with less than 2 years of flying experience. Schaffner immediately stuffed the note into his uniform pocket, mistakenly assuming it was an invitation from Cooper to his Seattle hotel room number or his phone number. Noticing this, Cooper later told her, “You better read it. I have a bomb” Cooper then pointed to the briefcase in his lap. Schaffner will soon share the note with fellow flight attendant Tina Mucklow. The pair showed the ticket to Captain William Scott, First Officer Bob Rataczak, and Flight Engineer H. E. Anderson. The Captain... at the center of the document... was arrested for hijacking a commercial airliner on April 9, 1972 using techniques very similar to the Cooper hijacking. It is also alleged that McCoy once owned a mother-of-pearl tie clip similar to the one found on board by investigators on board the plane. The FBI does not consider McCoy a suspect in the Cooper hijacking due to the significant age difference between what the witness estimated as Cooper's age and McCoy's actual age at the time of the crime. Although DB Cooper left few clues as to his true identity, this has not stopped law enforcement and amateur sleuths from descending upon them in an attempt to uncover the infamous DB Cooper. Cooper's identity will likely never be conclusively determined, although several men have proclaimed and some have proposed that he is Cooper, none of these men have been linked by physical evidence.