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Since I had no idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

  D. B. Cooper is a media epithet popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971, extorted $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,170,000 in 2015), and parachuted to an uncertain fate.
  Despite an extensive manhunt and an ongoing FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified.
  The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in American aviation history.



For those who have never read it, the Wikipedia article reads almost like an action novel. Highly recommended (fun) reading.


Also Numb3rs s6e10 has a plot related to D. B Cooper.


Prison Break tied a storyline into the D. B. Cooper story as well. A pretty popular story it seems :)


Another pop culture reference: The comedy 'Without a Paddle' is about a group of friends searching for D.B. Cooper's treasure


The "... in Popular Culture" section is large enough to have been spun off into it's own article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper_in_popular_cultur...


And another: 30 Rock implies that Kenneth's father was D.B. Cooper. In one episode he's wearing a suit passed down from his late father. The inside pocket of the suit coat is inscribed "D.B. Cooper."

Weirdly, this happened in season 6 episode 10, like the Numb3rs episode.




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