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Chinese police patrol a street in Urumqi, the capital of the restive Xinjiang region. Chinese authorities say crew and passengers travelling on a plane that had just taken off from a restive city in China's far-western Xinjiang region have thwarted a hijack attempt by six Muslim Uighurs.

Plane hijacking foiled in China, 6 detained

Last updated Friday, June 29, 2012 - 10:40am

BEIJING — Passengers and crew foiled a hijacking attempt by six people on a plane in China’s far-western Xinjiang region Friday, a regional airline and state media said. An overseas rights group, however, denied a hijacking attempt took place and said a seat dispute triggered an in-air brawl.

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40 years later, many still intrigued by D.B. Cooper mystery

Hal Bernton The Seattle Times

Last updated Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 2:48pm

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The passenger aboard the Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 wore sunglasses, a suit and a polyester black clip-on tie. He politely asked for a bourbon and 7-Up. Then, he handed the flight attendant a note declaring he had a bomb and demanding a $200,000 ransom.

Was this the beginning of a deeply flawed hijacking plan that would end with a suicidal nighttime parachute jump from the Boeing 727 jet by the man who would become known to the world as D.B. Cooper?

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Marla Cooper speaks during an interview in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011. Cooper believes that her late uncle Lynn Doyle Cooper was the man who hijacked a plane in 1971 and parachuted away with $200,000 ransom into a rainy night over the Pacific Northwest. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

FBI has chased hundreds of D.B. Cooper ghosts

Mike Baker The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 2:38pm

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- One suspect made a deathbed confession that he was the never-captured skyjacker D.B. Cooper. Another was a fugitive at the time of the hijacking. Still another was an airline worker and former paratrooper.

Each had a face that closely resembled Cooper's. None were him.

For nearly 40 years, the FBI has chased the ghost of the man responsible for the nation's only unsolved hijacking, with each exhausted lead growing his stature in American folklore.

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(SUE OGROCKI/The Associated Press) Marla Cooper, seen Wednesday in Oklahoma City, believes her late uncle was the man who hijacked a plane in 1971 and parachuted away with $200,000.

D.B. Cooper a present-day mythological figure

Sean Murphy The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 1:21pm

OKLAHOMA CITY -- When an FBI agent pleaded several years ago for help finding notorious skyjacker D.B. Cooper, he wondered, off-handedly, if someone's "odd uncle" might be their guy.

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Woman says her uncle is D.B. Cooper

Mike Carter, Steve Miletich The Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 1:22pm

SEATTLE -- The "credible suspect" the FBI is investigating in the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case is a man named Lynn Doyle Cooper, who reportedly died in 1999.

ABC News first revealed the name Wednesday in an interview with Cooper's niece, Marla Cooper, who said she is cooperating with the FBI.

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US, Russia plan more anti-hijacking exercises

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 4, 2011 - 10:56am

DENVER -- A first-of-its-kind hijacking exercise involving the U.S., Canadian and Russian militaries went so well that a similar drill is planned for 2011, an American officer said.

Jet fighters from Russia and the North American Aerospace Defense Command pursued a small passenger jet playing the role of a hijacked jetliner across the Pacific and back during the August exercise. The aim: To practice handing off responsibility for a hijacked jet between Russia and NORAD, a joint U.S.-Canadian command that for decades devoted its efforts to tracking Soviet forces.

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