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 terminal at 10 am and mosey along to greet passengers in the concourses.
54th Anniversary of the D.B. Cooper Hijacking. Still unsolved.
Today, November 24th, marks the 54th anniversary of the day in 1971 when a man using the name Dan Cooper purchased a ticket on Northwest Orient Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle.
“Cooper” paid $20 for his ticket and shortly after the plane took off from Portland he handed a flight attendant a note saying he had a bomb in his breifcase. He then demanded $200,000 in $20 bills and four parachutes.
The flight landed in Seattle, the other passengers were released and Cooper then demanded that the crew fly him, the money and the parachutes to Mexico City.
But somewhere over southwest Washington, possibly near Ariel, Washington, Cooper lowered the rear steps of the airplane and jumped out..
In 1980, a youg boy came upon $5800 worth of rotting bundles of $20 bills from the original ransonm money along a river bank. But no trace of D.B. Cooper (as news reports mistakenly ID’d him) have ever been found. This remains the world’s only unsolved airplane hijacking case.
