Over the weekend in rural Washington State, there were celebrations in Ariel to recall the country's most famous unsolved hijacking.
Thirty-seven years ago, a man known as D.B. Cooper seized a jetliner, received a ransom and parachuted out somewhere over southwest Washington.
He disappeared along with most of the $200,000 in cash.
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