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Two flight attendants face their fears as they protect passengers from a mysterious passenger known today as DB Cooper.
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"Panic Room" in a commercial aircraft.
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Based on actual events, this is the true story of Florence Schaffner and Tina Mucklow, two flight attendants with only two years of experience each. On one cold fall evening, they are assigned to work together as part of the flight crew of Northwest Airlines Flight 305. During flight, Flo is handed a notecard by a male passenger but disregards it. Written on the notecard is, "I have a bomb in my briefcase. I will use it if necessary. I want you to sit next to me because you are being hijacked."
Flo shows the notecard to Tina who like Flo keeps quiet about it. They then tell the pilot and co-pilot of the airplane who orders them to keep the passengers safe and calm. Flo and Tina oblige as the passengers are escorted off of the plane upon landing in Seattle. The hijacker remains on board but does not hurt Tina, Flo, the pilot, and co-pilot.
After the hijacker's non-violent demands are met, the flight resumes but as a return flight to Portland where it came from. The hijacker opens a back flight of stairs and jumps out of the plane as the plane flies over a large wooded area.
One of the great unsolved aviation mysteries! Best of luck with a fascinating project.
I wrote a draft many years ago after my sister gave me a book of unsolved mysteries. The DB Cooper incident was featured in it and I began writing almost immediately.
Around the same time, I had a chance encounter with David Fincher when he was in my home city promoting "The Social Network" and I asked him about real-life unsolved crimes he would make a movie about. He said "A lot."
I asked him, "What about the DB Cooper incident?"
He said back, "That would make a damn good movie indeed!"