The mystery around the unsolved November 1971 hijacking continues to hold the public’s imagination, even 50 years after the event. While the notoriety does result in crackpot phone calls to our museum every so often, we do have to admit it keeps the Northwest name in active memory…
NWA’s magazine of the 1970s, Passages, was published every other month in the early part of the decade. So for sure the November-December issue would have been in Cooper’s seat pocket. Unlikely but one never knows if the September-October issue was also floating around the cabin. We present both issues in full here for your browsing pleasure.
Note the choice of advertising on the back cover of the November-December issue… Hertz Rent-a-Car featuring … Disney characters? And Disney would go on to purchase Marvel? Whose hit show, “Loki,” would portray the D.B. Cooper hijacking in its first episode, streaming on Disney+? What a delicious coincidence!
