December 7, 2025 ·
The 12-minute audio has been pieced together from tapes dating back to the day of the incident itself.
One of the most notorious unsolved crimes in American history, the hijacking – which occurred on November 24th, 1971 – began when a man, who identified himself as Dan Cooper, boarded Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 to travel from Portland to Seattle.
During the trip, Cooper called over one of the flight attendants and asked them to write out a note declaring that he had a bomb in his briefcase and that the plane was being hijacked…