Which unidentified hijacker parachuted away after receiving a ransom of 200,000 dollars?

• A. DB Cooper
• B. Al Capone
• C. Hannibal Lecter
• D. John Dillinger

Answer: (A)

This question tests knowledge of a famous hijacking in which the hijacker parachuted away after receiving a ransom. The person who did this is D. B. Cooper. In 1971, he hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle, demanded $200,000 in ransom and four parachutes, and after the passengers and crew were secured, released the passengers and leaped from the rear of the Boeing 727 with a parachute, vanished into the night, and was never located. The case remains unsolved, with the ransom money eventually traced in part but Cooper’s fate unknown. The other names don’t fit because Al Capone was a Prohibition-era gangster who never hijacked a plane, Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character, and John Dillinger was a 1930s bank robber who did not parachute from an airplane.