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The hijacker surge

On Wednesday, November 24, 1971 knows the most daring hostage of an aircraft of all time. Not only thirty passengers of Boeing 727 does not notice anything but the hijacker parachuted from the plane with the ransom of 200,000 dollars, before disappearing forever. "It is not still not my hostage UMP," grumbles Jean-Francois Cope ... 
In short, in the terminal of the airport in Portland, Oregon, the passengers of flight 305 to Seattle head to the boarding gate. Nobody pays attention to the one who said to call Dan Cooper. He wears an elegant quarantine measures approximately 1.80 m. His eyes are hidden by tinted glasses. He is wearing a black raincoat, loafers and a dark suit. He holds in his hand a large briefcase. At the time, the airlines do not dig their passengers. 
The man sits in the back of the cab on the seat 18 C. At his back, the young stewardess Florence Schaffner moved in the jump seat for staff during takeoff. As soon as the plane in the air, Cooper leans hostess to slip him a piece of paper. "Again Nicolas Bedos who refile me his phone number," she thinks by sliding it into a pocket without even taking a look. The passenger then leans towards her whispering: "Miss, you'd better take a look at this word I have a bomb with me.". The hostess looked at his interlocutor to check not kidding. She doubts seconds because it has the head Ayrault announcing a reform of French taxation. 
But on the piece of paper, she reads with amazement: "I have a bomb in my briefcase I will use it if necessary I want you to come sit by me It's a diversion...." She looks up at the man, who always seems so serious. Following his reading tells him he claims 200,000 dollars in unmarked bills and two sets of parachutes. Everyone must be composed of a main parachute and another emergency. All this will be returned to him at the airport in Seattle. A bomb on board hostess rushes soft legs in the cockpit to inform the commander William Scott. Which notifies the control tower of the presence of Tontons gunslingers on board. 
The alert is sent to the police and the FBI. The latter prevents the president of the airline, Northwest Airlines, Donald Nyrop, who orders to cooperate with the attacker after checking that it actually has a bomb. The stewardess returns to see Cooper, who is happy open his baggage that shows two red cylinders, drums and electric son. That bomb was the real air. Before she leaves, he asks Florence to tell the driver to wait to land the parachutes and ransom are available at the airport. Conversations between Cooper and hostess were so discreet that no passenger has no idea what is going on. These diversions of old had some class ... 

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