The Skyjacker That Got Away

The Skyjacker That Got Away

44 mins | Documentary | July 26, 2009

On the eve of Thanksgiving, 1971 a man, dressed in a business suit, leaps out of the back of a commercial jet with a parachute and two hundred thousand dollars in ransom money. Now for the first time in FBI history a team of citizen sleuths, using modern forensic science, is helping unravel the mystery of D.B. Cooper.

The Skyjacker That Got Away

44 mins | Documentary | July 26, 2009

The Skyjacker That Got Away
On the eve of Thanksgiving, 1971 a man, dressed in a business suit, leaps out of the back of a commercial jet with a parachute and two hundred thousand dollars in ransom money. Now for the first time in FBI history a team of citizen sleuths, using modern forensic science, is helping unravel the mystery of D.B. Cooper.
Producers National Geographic, Edge West Productions
Original title The Skyjacker That Got Away
Directors
Writers

Cast

Jamie Preston

as FBI Agent

Marc Bossley

as D.B. Cooper

Grant Buckerfield

as FBI Agent

Pete Freeland

as Co-Pilot

Christopher Haskell

as Captain William Scott