Dropping the Mask
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This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta. In November nineteen seventy one, A man showed up at a flight counter for Northwest Orient Airlines in Portland. He asked to buy a one way tick to Seattle. The man provided his name when he bought the ticket.
Dan Cooper. He was carrying a black briefcase. Once on board the aircraft and en route to Seattle, The man showed a flight attendant. the contents of his briefcase.
It looked like a bomb. In return for releasing passengers unharmed, He demanded two hundred thousand dollars when the plane landed. He also added an odd request. He wanted four parachutes.
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