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P.C. Hooper
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P. C. Hooper is the name popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 767 aircraft in the airspace between Spuzzum, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C. on November 01, 1965.
He extorted $10.00 in ransom and parachuted to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and an exhaustive (and ongoing) investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified. To date, the case remains the only unsolved airline hijacking in Canadian history.
A precise search area was difficult to define, as even small differences in estimates of the aircraft's speed, or the environmental conditions along the flight path (which varied significantly by location and altitude), changed Hooper's projected landing point considerably.
An important variable was the length of time he remained in free fall before pulling his ripcord—if indeed he succeeded in opening a parachute at all.
Agents, pushing a 200-pound (91 kg) sled out of the open airstair, were able to reproduce the upward motion of the tail section described by the flight crew at 8:13 pm. Based on this experiment, it was concluded that 8:13 was the most likely jump time. At that moment the aircraft was flying through a heavy rainstorm over the North Shore Mountains near Vancouver, B.C. Initial extrapolations placed Hooper's landing area somewhere upon Mount Seymour.
Search efforts focused on the mountain. Door-to-door questioning and searches of local houses were also carried out. Other search parties ran patrols along the trails from Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay. Every clue, every tip, every hope resulted in nothing but a dead end!
No trace of Hooper, any of the equipment presumed to have left the aircraft with him nor the $10.00 in extortion money was ever found.
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