The FBI has revealed that it believes it has credible evidence that will lead to America's most elusive and mysterious fugitive after 40 years. Famed hijacker and urban legend DB Cooper disappeared when he jumped out of a plane over Washington in 1971 during a hijacking.Known only as DB Cooper it remains Americas only unsolved hijacking .FBI Investigators claim that they are testing the fingerprints of a new suspect after what they said is the 'most promising' lead to date.
In 1971 a mystery hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper, also known as DB Cooper, boarded a Northwest flight in Portland for a flight to Seattle on the night of November 24 handing a note claiming he had dynamite to a flight attendant he commandeered the plane.
Cooper boarding the plane wearing dark sunglasses, ordered a whiskey and lit a cigarette before he passed a flight attendant a note that read: 'I HAVE A BOMB IN MY BRIEFCASE. I WILL USE IT IF NECESSARY. I WANT YOU TO SIT NEXT TO ME. YOU ARE BEING HIJACKED.'When the plane landed in Seattle, he demanded $200,000 and four parachutes and demanded to be flown to Mexico.In return he released 36 hostages. Somewhere over southwestern Washington, he jumped out the plane's tail exit at 10,000 feet with two of the chutes, and was never seen or heard from or seen again.
