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Rolling Stone Ricardo Nagaoka for Rolling Stone The Missing Piece of the D.B. Cooper Story Many saw flight attendant Tina Mucklow as the key to the mysterious skyjacking. But does her story hold the answers?
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It was November 24th, 1971, the day before Thanksgiving, and Tina Mucklow and her Twin Cities-based flight crew three flight attendants and three pilots were beginning what should have been four or five days of flying, working through the holiday. Mucklow was the newest hire and lowest-ranked flight attendant. At a stop in Portland, Oregon, she busied herself icing glasses in her role as “galley girl,” as passengers boarded and storm clouds gathered overhead. Northwest Orient had a policy to pamper their customers by serving beverages before takeoff. Her colleague Florence Schaffner started serving from the back of the main cabin; she worked from the front.