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After 50 years of mystery, siblings claim hijacker DB Cooper was their father

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Chanté and Rick McCoy III say their father, Richard McCoy Jr , was the man who hijacked a plane in 1971 .

Cooper , or perhaps McCoy , ordered a bourbon and soda before handing a note to a flight attendant that said he had a bomb in his briefcase.

He then ordered the flight crew to head for Mexico City , via Reno , Nevada , but 30 minutes after takeoff, Cooper jumped out of the plane with $ 200,000 in cash.

The FBI spent 45 years investigating before officially closing the case in 2016 .

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English

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