On 24 November 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper bought a ticket for the flight of Northwest Airlines was traveling between the airport in Portland and Seattle U.S.
From his seat called the TCP (hostess) and gave him a role in informing him he had a bomb.
then made known their demands $ 200,000 in small bills and four parachutes.
received his loot and parachutes in Seattle, where 38 people freed as a gesture of goodwill.
then ordered off to Mexico.
But when flying in near Lake Merwin asked to maintain an altitude of 10,000 feet and descend the stairs of the Boeing 727 tail, where it dropped by parachute.
Covered by the darkness, could not be displayed by the fighters who followed the aircraft.
The case remains unsolved.
Dan Cooper
This event aroused the curiosity became popular and Cooper in a bandit himself admired as Jesse James.
The folkclore of aerodelito have their stories in these places. Enliven friendly gatherings of well-watered came on board around the roast.
There are always old stories, unverifiable, no names or license plate of dubious veracity, planes and pilots "bagayeros" which landed at night in a moonlit field or "buoys" with jars of oil burned on.
There are, however, more recent histories and documented ... and no less attractive and hilarious.
Such is the case of the attempted robbery of a bank helicopter transport was no longer such, in a town that was not the one supposed.
happened in March 2002 when a group of criminals, then to take on the police station and lock Telene their only two policemen, guns drawn entered demanding money in the bank in town.
were greeted by a frightened maid who said nervously .. "Here there is no money, this is a museum ... the bank stopped working years ago."
Banco de Credito Rural Telen was founded on April 5, 1910, and its initial capital of 200,000 pesos gold coin in 2002 ... but many years had already permanently closed and the preserved building was part of the town's history.
Rural Credit Bank Telen.
Thus the modern "rural bandits" further discovered that the wrong people, since its objective was the bank of the nearby town of Victor ... and were in Telen.
the time police reinforcements arrived, the robbers had gone up in smoke. But a rural laborer said missed a helicopter flying near Mount on time to events.
Brigade intervened in the Santa Rosa airport asking if he had detected and registration of such aircraft, and they answer that in the absence of primary radar, no aircraft would not be seen could be detected.
Hours later the mystery was solved when a helicopter Bell Ranger LV-WFY enrollment plunged to earth in a soybean field near Zárate, with five people aboard, weapons, ammunition and body armor. All were arrested.
If there were an award for ambiguity and improvisation, these guys would take their version of gold. "
But lately, new forms of "aerodelitos" have forced the modest flying clubs and private owners of aircraft has to take precautions unthinkable 20 years ago.
is that the theft of passenger aircraft within the country has already several facts.
In 2007, a Cessna 182 was stolen from St. Nicholas airfield after taking hostage the family's home, and appeared in an area of \u200b\u200brugged mountains near Pampa de Los guanacos, Santiago del Estero, with landing gear, propeller and engine damage.
Also in 2007 they stole from the San Francisco Flying Club Cessna 172 aircraft registration LV-MPR valued at $ 50,000, after an alleged beating his rider passenger in Ceres, Santa Fe. The aircraft was later found abandoned on an island in the river Paraná.
Then, at the same airfield San Francisco, stole a Piper Cherokee 300 valued at $ 60,000 was found in a field in Santa Fe, near the border with Chaco, with the propeller and landing gear seriously damaged.
Bonanza Beechraft also a LV-IPA tuition, valued at $ 100,000 was stolen by masked men at the aerodrome of Hope in November 2008.
In November 2009 the airfield was stolen Villa Mercedes, San Luis, a Piper Archer registration LV-APD, which later appeared as LV-MAT Reissues in a raid in Paraguay, along with other stolen aircraft.
Today, even ringtone's for mobile phones can get off with lyrics that relate to the theft of aircraft in Argentina.
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