# @theoregonian on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C3lgxP5hymU
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11228012-theoregonian-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-02-20T23:00:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Oregonian (@theoregonian) — https://gondola.cc/theoregonian

## Caption

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

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