# @theoregonian on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C1F2cokPEUd
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/10418243-theoregonian-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-12-20T22:22:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Oregonian (@theoregonian) — https://gondola.cc/theoregonian

## Caption

The night before Thanksgiving in 1971, a man who claimed to have a bomb hijacked a Northwest Orient airlines flight leaving Portland International Airport for Seattle – a story that would go on to become a Pacific Northwest legend.

Reporter James Long, working the night shift at The Oregon Journal, caught the story.

He called a former colleague who worked at Western Airlines, and who managed to get him on the phone with someone from Northwest.

“He didn’t tell them I was on the line,” Long said. “I remember that the sound wasn’t very good.”

That bad connection is likely responsible for one of the most famous names – and most famous mistakes – in American crime history.

“Somehow I came up with D.B.”

Follow the link in our bio to read more. 

#dbcooper #oregonian

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