STONY POINT ‒ Fifty years ago, on Dec. 1, 1974, Northwest Orient Airline Flight 6231 disappeared from JFK Airport’s radar somewhere over Harriman State Park. A report from JFK was sent to police. A ...

A former federal agent believes D.B. Cooper was actually Richard McCoy Jr., and he died in a shootout with the FBI. When skyjacker D.B. Cooper leaped from a 727-airplane clutching $200,000 in ransom ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 24, 1971, a hijacker calling himself “Dan Cooper” — but who soon became popularly known as “D.B. Cooper” — ...

It has become a familiar story in the Pacific Northwest, if not beyond. As with so many infamous unsolved mysteries, just the name — D.B. Cooper — can raise the hair on a neck and inspire wonder.

It's a Northwest mystery that has never been solved. A man who called himself "Dan Cooper" paid cash for a one-way ticket to Seattle at the Northwest Orient Airlines counter at the Portland airport on ...

Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial airline history — the D.B Cooper hijacking. Five decades have passed and very few answers are known about the ...

I flew to New York on the day spring arrived, and all along 90th Street a lovely blue flower called Pushkinia blossomed. It is named for the poet who, according to Russians, cannot be translated into ...