Netflix fans were truly baffled when D.B Cooper: Where are you? landed on the streaming service.
The true crime documentary series focuses on an unidentified man, under the alias of D.B Cooper, who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 in 1971 and parachuted off the plane with $200,000 cash.
Viewers were distracted by the documentary however as they believed D.B Cooper was a fictional character – and that his identity has already been revealed
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The unknown criminal was mentioned heavily in the first season of the hit Fox series, Prison Break, with many believing it was just a fictional part of the show’s narrative.
After realising the story of the famous hijacker was very much real, fans took to social media to share their surprise.
Accompanied by a photo of actor Muse Watson as D.B Cooper in Prison Break, a user wrote: “Just saw there’s a d.b. cooper docuseries on netflix and why did no one tell me this was a real person? I thought d.b. cooper was just a character on prison break.”
“Just found out D.B Cooper from prison break is a real person wtf,” another baffled person said.
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Someone else penned: “I honestly thought D B Cooper was just a made up character in prison break.”
While a fourth stated: “So D.B. Cooper was a real person?. I thought he was a fictitious character from Prison Break.”
In the Fox drama, escape mastermind Michael Scofield works out Cooper’s identity and tracks him down to Fox River prison, intent on reclaiming his stolen money and using it for their escape.
The four-part limited series goes into detail about the infamous crime and explains D.B Cooper was never seen again after extorting $200,000 in ransom.
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A small portion of the ransom was found along the banks of the Columbia river in 1980, however this only deepened the mystery as the majority of the money was never discovered.
The documentary calls on several key figures involved in the investigation, including a former member of the FBI who revealed they reached no definitive conclusions regarding D.B Cooper’s true identity.
The infamous crime remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history.
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