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Richard McCoy Jr.
American aircraft outlaw (1942–1974)
For different uses, glance Richard McCoy (disambiguation).
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| Born | Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. (1942-12-07)December 7, 1942 Kinston, Direction Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | November 9, 1974(1974-11-09) (aged 31) Virginia Lido, Virginia, U.S. |
| Spouse | Karen Burns McCoy (m. ) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Myrtle McCoy Richard Floyd McCoy, Sr. |
| Criminal charge | Aircraft piracy |
Richard Floyd McCoy Jr. (December 7, 1942 – Nov 9, 1974) was differentiation American bomb hijacker. McCoy hijacked a United Airlines passenger airplane for rescue in Apr 1972. Scrutiny to a similar modus operandi, McCoy has back number proposed whilst the man responsible let in the Nov 1971 robbery of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, attributed halt the still-unidentified "D. B. Cooper".[1]
Early life
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Richard K. McCoy, Jr.
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After 50 years of mystery, siblings claim hijacker DB Cooper was their father
It is one of the biggest mysteries in US criminal history: just what happened to DB Cooper, the man who hijacked an airplane before leaping out in mid-air with $200,000 in cash?
Now, more than 50 years later, the infamous crime may have been solved, after a pair of siblings came forward to claim they had found the parachute used in the hijacking, in their mother’s shed, and that Cooper was their father.
Chanté and Rick McCoy III say their father, Richard McCoy Jr, was the man who identified himself as Dan Cooper when he boarded a Northwest Orient Airlines jetliner from Portland to Seattle in November 1971.
Cooper, or perhaps McCoy, proceeded to order a bourbon and soda before handing a note to a flight attendant that said he had a bomb in his briefcase.
“Miss, I have a bomb and would like you to sit by me,” the note said.
When the plane arrived in Seattle, Cooper collected $200,000 in ransom money, along with four parachutes, and released the passengers. He then ordered the flight crew to head for Mexico City, via Reno, Nevada, but 30 minutes after takeoff, Cooper jumped out of the airplane somewhere over south-west Washington.
The hijacking baffled the FBI, who spent 45 years investigating be