Special 50th anniversary broadcast: Infamous Northwest skyjacking
Nov 24, 2021, 5:57 AM | Updated: Nov 25, 2021, 8:09 am
(AP/FBI Photos/File)
(AP/FBI Photos/File)
KIRO Radio presents a special live one-hour Thanksgiving Eve broadcast called “COOPER 5-0,” marking the 50th anniversary of the hijacking of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle – better known as the DB Cooper skyjacking of Nov. 24 – also Thanksgiving Eve in 1971.
Producer and host Feliks Banel shared special archival reports, as well as new interviews with eyewitnesses and those who haven’t given up trying to solve the half-century old mystery.
I took a field trip to the Washington @HistoryMuseum's archive in Tacoma to get a close look at the parachute #DBCooper left behind, with help from lead curator Gwen Whiting.
Wednesday on @KIRORadio/@Mynorthwest pic.twitter.com/VQxDKlICVn
— Feliks Banel (@FeliksBanel) November 24, 2021
“COOPER 5-0” aired live at 6 p.m. on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM on Wednesday, Nov. 24.
Listen to the full special below or online here:
Check out more of Feliks’ stories on DB Cooper:
Searching for D.B. Cooper ‘historic sites’ in Portland and Seattle
All Over The Map: New search for D.B. Cooper clues along Columbia River’s Tena Bar
