D B Cooper, Where Are You? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Northwest Orient

The Northwest Orient flight was a Boeing 727 originating in Portland, OR with Seattle as its destination.

Answer: Dan Cooper

The hijacker bought his ticket at the Portland airport on the day of the flight for $20. The name "D. B. Cooper" was disseminated by the news media in error, and that is the name that stuck.

Answer: $200,000

In 1971, the average salary in the US was about $6,500 per year, so $200,000 was a small fortune then.
He requested only $20 bills, and the serial number of each bill was recorded by the authorities before the money was delivered to the plane.

Answer: A bomb

Cooper told a stewardess that he had a bomb. When she asked to see it, he opened his briefcase to show her what appeared to be an explosive device. He then made his demands.

Answer: Four parachutes

Because he asked for multiple parachutes, the authorities feared that he would force an innocent party to jump with him. This improved his likelihood of getting properly packed chutes.

Prior to making his jump, Cooper opened two of the chutes to see if they were operable, and he used parts from one to tie the ransom money to his body. He then wore the other two parachutes. One of the chutes that Cooper actually used was marked for training purposes only and was not fully functional.

Answer: He released all the passengers.

Once the money and parachutes were delivered to the plane, he let all the passengers go, along with some of the flight crew members. No one was injured during the hijacking.

Answer: He jumped from the back exit of the plane while in flight.

Less than an hour after take-off from SeaTac, Cooper opened the back hatch of the plane and lowered the stairs down from the tail. No one witnessed his jump because the flight crew were all in the cockpit, as directed by the hijacker.

Seven years after the hijacking, a placard of instructions on how to lower the back stairs was found on the ground in Washington state and was confirmed as having come from the hijacked 727.

Answer: Mexico City, Mexico

Cooper gave the airline instructions to load enough fuel for the plane to make it nonstop to Mexico City. After Cooper jumped from the plane, the pilot actually landed it in Reno, NV.

Answer: He tipped her for his drinks.

Cooper paid his $2 drink tab and insisted that the stewardess keep an $18 tip even after he made his hijacking intentions known.

Answer: $5800 in weathered $20 bills

Nine years after the hijacking, the money was found still bundled together near the Columbia River in the state of Washington. The bills were positively identified via serial numbers.

The serial numbers of all the bills were published and rewards were offered to anyone who turned in one of the notes. However, none of the other bills paid to Cooper have ever shown up in circulation.