Richard McCoy is a name that’s well known to aficionados of the 52-year-old D.B. Cooper case, the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history. The Vietnam War veteran was a suspect for a while – and he certainly proved he had the chops to pull off the audacious crime. On November 24, 1971, a man who came to be known as D.B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient flight out of Portland, parachuted from the plane with $200,000 in ransom and disappeared. Four months later, McCoy closely followed the Cooper skyjacking modus operandi when he took over a United Airlines Boeing 727 shortly after it took off from Newark. Read more at the link in our bio. 📸: Oregonian Files #dbcooper #dbcoopersuspect #dbcooperflight #theoregonian #oregon #portlandoregon