Those charming therapy llamas, Panda and Beni, will be pretending to be reindeers at Portland International Airport (PDX) this holidy season with visits starting Tuesday 24 and repeating every week until Christmas with visits scheduled on December 3rd, 11th, 18th and 23rd. The lovely llamas start their visits in the pre-security area of the main […]
(D.B. Cooper pink parachute courtesy Washington State History Museum) The only unsolved commercial airline hijacking in the U.S. remains the November 24, 1971 hijacking of Northwest Orient flight 305 to Seattle by someone who has come to be known as “D.B.” Cooper. (Sketch courtesy FBI) In 1971, Cooper boarded a Boeing 727 on Thanksgiving eve, […]
D.B. Cooper was one guy who wasn’t going to get stuck at the airport. Or on an airplane. Back in 1971, he hijacked a plane flying from Portland to Seattle and demanded a flight to Mexico, four parachutes – and $200,000. Cooper bailed out somewhere over southwest Washington – and disappeared. Over the weekend, folks […]
Those charming therapy llamas, Panda and Beni, will be pretending to be reindeers at Portland International Airport (PDX) this holidy season with visits starting Tuesday 24 and repeating every week until Christmas with visits scheduled on December 3rd, 11th, 18th and 23rd. The lovely llamas start their visits in the pre-security area of the main […]
(D.B. Cooper pink parachute courtesy Washington State History Museum) The only unsolved commercial airline hijacking in the U.S. remains the November 24, 1971 hijacking of Northwest Orient flight 305 to Seattle by someone who has come to be known as “D.B.” Cooper. (Sketch courtesy FBI) In 1971, Cooper boarded a Boeing 727 on Thanksgiving eve, […]
D.B. Cooper was one guy who wasn’t going to get stuck at the airport. Or on an airplane. Back in 1971, he hijacked a plane flying from Portland to Seattle and demanded a flight to Mexico, four parachutes – and $200,000. Cooper bailed out somewhere over southwest Washington – and disappeared. Over the weekend, folks […]