45 year old D.B. Cooper enters Portland International Airport. Cooper uses the name Dan Cooper to buy a one-way ticket to Sea-Tac International Airport on November 24, 1971, a Wednesday before Thanksgiving. He boards Northwest Flight 305, a Boeing 727-100. He boards the airplane and attracts no attention. He is wearing suit with a pearl tie and wearing a homburg hat. The airplane starts to taxi and take off from the runway. Flight attendant Flo Schaffner walks by and he hands her a note. Men traveling alone handed nots to flight attendants as a way to pass hotel and phone numbers. When she walked a second time, Cooper says to Schaffner, "You'd better read that. I have a bomb." From there, the hijacking starts. Schaffer then goes to the cockpit and notifies Captain William Scott. They are required to cooperate. He orders Schaffner to sit next to her. Cooper shows her briefcase. He also tells the pilot not to land, until the money and parachute are there for him to get. This is exchange for all the passengers on board, which amounts to $200,000. As the hijacking happens, very few passengers knew what was going on. The airplane lands at Sea-Tac and demands it goes to Mexico City and flies slowly and at lower altitude. As the airplane is flying, two F-106 are dispatched to follow it, but it flies at Mach 2. The weather conditions were not great. He goes through the rear door of the Boeing 727 and parachutes out at around 8:05 PM. With him is the $200,000 money. From there, he is never seen again. Hijackings were very common in the 1960s and 70s. In fact two-thirds of them were recorded during that time period. They were mostly committed by political factions to skyjackings in which the hijacker wanted money. Hijackings back then did not result in airplane intentionally being crashed into a building, which happened on September 11, 2001, which claimed 3,000 lives. Then in 1980, a 8 year old boy found money which had matching serial numbers that Cooper had. Presumably, he either died in the Pacific Northwest forest or somehow survived and someone waited to pick him up. Years later, some people claimed to be D.B. Cooper, but none were every confirmed. A close one was in 2000 with Duane Cooper, but it came inconclusive. Nobody knows what really happened to him. D.B. Cooper remains the only unsolved hijacking.
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Cool you have a lot of Korena friends. Mmm yeh! Whenever I think of Korea I think of the food. Hence the 'mmmmmm"! I like teji gogi, geembap, bip n' bap, that red bean/chili paste, kim chee pancakes (they also make them with zucchini), pinsu (dessert), bean paste and rice dessserts, dok buk. I could go on. I wish there were good korean restaurants here like they have in NYC. You can bbq your own food right at your table. Can't get better than that!
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JQ Public wrote:Mmm yeh! Whenever I think of Korea I think of the food. Hence the 'mmmmmm"! I like teji gogi, geembap, bip n' bap, that red bean/chili paste, kim chee pancakes (they also make them with zucchini), pinsu (dessert), bean paste and rice dessserts, dok buk. I could go on. I wish there were good korean restaurants here like they have in NYC. You can bbq your own food right at your table. Can't get better than that!
You can cook the gahl-bee on a kuk as they call it. Good stuff dude.
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I have a Korean Aunt, and three half Korean cousins. My aunt introduced me to the food of Korea when I was a child. The only thing I couldn't eat was the seaweed she fixed, I took one bite of it and had to run to the bathroom to vomit. It tasted like iodine. Since then I have eaten a lot of different ethnic meals.
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DaylilyDawn wrote:I have a Korean Aunt, and three half Korean cousins. My aunt introduced me to the food of Korea when I was a child. The only thing I couldn't eat was the seaweed she fixed, I took one bite of it and had to run to the bathroom to vomit. It tasted like iodine. Since then I have eaten a lot of different ethnic meals.
Cool.
I like seaweed. Good stuff.
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