Skyjack: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper (14 page)

Another FBI sketch. Notice the differences?

What an aged Cooper would look like now, according to the FBI.

Private eye Skipp Porteous and Cooper suspect Kenneth Christiansen. Notice Christiansen’s smirky grin.

Northwest Orient Flight 305, hijacked shortly after leaving Portland en route to Seattle. The model was equipped with aftstairs for loading passengers. The CIA also used the aftstairs of the 727 to drop cargo and parachutists during Vietnam.

Stewardess Tina Mucklow. She spent nearly five hours with Cooper. “He was never cruel or nasty in any way,” she said after the hijacking. She later became a nun. ASSOCIATED PRESS

Row 18. The hijacker sat in the middle seat.

The aftstairs of Northwest 305, which Cooper leaped from at 10,000 feet.

Suspect Bobby Dayton. COURTESY OF RON AND PAT FORMAN

Suspect Barbara Dayton, post-surgery. COURTESY OF RON AND PAT FORMAN

Army soldiers search for Cooper near Lake Merwin in the spring of 1972.

Cooper suspect Duane Weber, photographed by his wife Jo Weber in 1979, after they married. COURTESY OF JO WEBER

After digging into her husband’s past, Jo Weber discovered that Duane was a career criminal who spent much of his life in prison, often under the alias John C. Collins.

A military parachutist tests the air-stairs of the hijacked Northwest Orient Boeing 727 during a test flight to see where Cooper landed on January 6, 1972.