US woman claims famed hijacker is her uncle

August 04, 2011 15:32

The mystery of a notorious airplane hijacker has stumped US law enforcement for nearly four decades, but the distant childhood memories of one woman
seem to be prompting the FBI to take a closer look at America's only unsolved skyjacking.

Marla Cooper believes her late uncle, Lynn Doyle Cooper, was D B Cooper, the man who hijacked a plane in November 1971 and parachuted with USD 200,000 in ransom cash into a rainy night over the Pacific Northwest. He has never been found.

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