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A man attempted to open the rear door of a Seattle-bound Alaska Airlines flight yesterday. Sometime after the flight’s departure from New York, the man became unruly and attempted to leave the flight via the back door. From WFJA: The crew initially tried to calm the man, then decided to …

Who is D. B. Cooper? D. B. Cooper was (and is) an enigma.  In 1971, he hijacked a plane, demanded and received $200,000 in ransom money, and then parachuted away. No one knows what happened to him since. The Day of the Hijacking He took a Northwest Orient Airlines flight …