27/11/2025
On February 10, 1980, 8-year-old Brian Ingram is smoothing sand for a campfire on the Washington side of the Columbia River when he comes across three deteriorating packs of $20 bills still bound by rubber bands. The bills were last seen on November 24, 1971, the night they were given to the hijacker known as D. B. Cooper, After getting the cash in Seattle, Cooper demanded the plane fly to Mexico, and shortly after 8 p.m. he jumped from the plane's back stairs somewhere over Southwestern Washington. Cooper’s case is the world’s only unsolved airplane hijacking, and the FBI says Ingram’s find is their first clue since Cooper jumped. More than a half century later, it’s arguably still their best.
This item has been made for a short documentary film about the hijacking and find.
