727 Aircraft facts
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A Boeing 727 aircraft was stolen out of an airport in 2003. Neither the plane, nor the two men aboard were ever found.
A Boeing 727 aircraft was stolen out of an airport in 2003. Neither the plane, nor the two men aboard (Ben Charles Padilla and John Mikel Mutantu) were ever found. This, on a plane that normally requires three people to safely fly it.
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D. B. Cooper, an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft and extorted $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,160,000 in 2015), parachuted from the hijacked plane and was never to be found again.
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D. B. Cooper is an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft on November 24, 1971. He extorted $200,000 in ransom and parachuted to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and protracted FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or identified.
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In an unidentified man known as "D.B. Cooper" hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the northwest United States extorted the equivalent of $1,240,000 parachuted out of the plane and disappeared
