San Diego Man Believed To Be Hijacker​ D.B. Cooper Dies

SAN DIEGO – A San Diego man some believed to be legendary hijacker D.B. Cooper has died. Robert Rackstraw, 75, died Tuesday from a longstanding heart condition in his Bankers Hill condominium, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Rackstraw, a U.S. Army veteran and paratrooper, was featured in the 2016 History Channel miniseries that examined the unsolved case.

On Nov. 24, 1971, Cooper hijacked a flight headed to Seattle from Portland. He reportedly jumped from the plane over Washington state with $200,000 in cash. The hijacker was never found and it was not clear whether he survived.

The case was one of the longest and most exhaustive investigations in FBI history. Although the agency stopped actively investigating the case in 2016, the four-part miniseries "D.B. Cooper: Case Closed?" pointed to Rackstraw as the hijacker.

"I told everybody I was (the hijacker)," Rackstraw said, according to The Union-Tribune, before explaining that his admission was a stunt.

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