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Who is D.B. Cooper? The last person you’d expect to show up in a Marvel show, unless you’re
creator Michael Waldron.
In 1971, a dapper man in shades and a suit going by the alias hijacked one of Northwest Orient Airlines’ Boeing 727 jets while it was still on the ground waiting to take off. The demand: $200,000 and four parachutes, and no one would get hurt. Cooper, who claimed to have a bomb in his briefcase, forced the plane to take off while authorities scrambled to fulfill his request. He would eventually ground the plane again, let the passengers go, ascend a second time with just the pilot crew on board, then jump out of the plane with the skills of a professional skydiver. He was never caught or heard of again. His identity remains a mystery.