24 November 1971
First Quarter, 44% lit
D.B. Cooper jumps
A man in a business suit hijacked a plane, collected $200,000, and parachuted into the night over Washington State. He was never found.
He jumped into rain and darkness at about 10,000 feet with a half moon behind cloud. It remains the only unsolved commercial hijacking in American history, and the FBI formally gave up in 2016.
- Date
- 24 November 1971
- Moon computed for
- 20:00 local time, UTC−8
- Phase
- First Quarter
- Illuminated
- 44%
Source: FBI case file, NORJAK