PHOTOS: D.B. Cooper hijacking, 43 years later

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PHOTOS: D.B. Cooper hijacking, 43 years later

An FBI sketch of the man known as D.B. Cooper. His case from Nov. 24, 1971 is the nation's only unsolved commercial airplane hijacking.

The Northwest Airlines 727 that D.B. Cooper hijacked on a runway at Reno International Airport . Cooper had parachuted before the plane landed.

This is KIRO 7 Eyewitness News footage of passengers that were on the hijacked airplane leaving the terminal at Sea-Tac International Airport.

This is Walter Cronkite's Nov. 25, 1971 broadcast about the D.B. Cooper hijacking the previous night. The hijacking, which included a landing at Sea-Tac International Airport, is the only unsolved hijacking of a commercial jet. Cooper was never found, and neither was most the money.

The crew of the Northwest Airlines jet hijacked by D.B. Cooper on November 24, 1971, appearing at a news conference in Reno, Nev. after the plane landed. Left to right are: Capt. William Scott, First Officer Robert Rataczak, flight attendant Tina Mucklow and Second Officer Harold Anderson.

Co-pilot Bill Rataczak and flight attendant Tina Mucklow on Nov, 25, 1971 after their flight was hijacked by D.B. Cooper.

A helicopter takes off from search headquarters as Clark County Deputy Sheriff Bob Rayburn hecks a map of the area where D.B. Cooper parachuted from a hijacked Northwest Airlines flight. This photo was taken Nov. 26, 1971.

FBI special agents check a map Nov. 26, 1971, at D.B Cooper search headquarters in Clark County, Wash.

This is what Sea-Tac International Airport looked like on Nov. 24, 1971, the night D.B. Cooper landed there. This KIRO 7 news footage was broadcast the following day on CBS News.

Brian Ingram, 8, center, found some of D.B. Cooper's money on a Columbia River beach while clearing a sand pit for a fire. This photo was taken February 13, 1980.

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An FBI sketch of the man known as D.B. Cooper. His case from Nov. 24, 1971 is the nation's only unsolved commercial airplane hijacking.

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