In Flight with D.B. Cooper
Season 07, Episode 04
November 27, 2019
A legend. A mystery. The saga continues.
Re-Imagined Radio presents In Flight with D.B. Cooper, the second of three radio stories written and directed by Dan Wyatt, Jr. Performed by Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers, Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, Washington. We imagine conversations between Cooper and Flight Attendant Tina Mucklow before he jumped into history. From our Guest Writer series.
Access the episode script
Background
Before he parachuted from the back of the low-flying passenger jet into a dark and stormy night, and history, over Southwest Washington with $200,000 strapped to his body, D. B. Cooper was alone in the economy section. The only person he talked with was Tina Mucklow, a flight attendant aboard Northwest Orient flight 305. Mucklow was twenty-something. Cooper was a middle-aged man with a bomb in a briefcase. We speculate about one of the many mysteries still lingering around the only unsolved case of air piracy in American aviation history. What did they talk about?
Production
Contents
An original radio script, "In Flight with D.B. Cooper," written by Dan Wyatt, Jr. This episode is Part 2
of The D.B. Cooper Saga.
The Skyjacker, 2020
In Flight with D.B. Cooper, 2019
Skyjacker '71: The D.B. Cooper Transmissions, 2018
Cast
John F. Barber as Announcer and Seat Stealing Passenger
Greg Shilling as Captain William Scott, Unruly Passenger, and Billy Mitchell
Melissa Matteo as Florence Schaffner
Dan Wyatt, Jr. as D. B. Cooper
Arianna Dorenbosch as Tina Mucklow
Credits
Written and Directed by Dan Wyatt, Jr.
Produced and Hosted by John F. Barber
Sound Design, Music, and Post Production by Marc Rose
Foley Sound Effects by Dean Lyon
Graphics by Dan Wyatt, Jr.
Significance
Cooper hijacked a passenger jet airliner Thanksgiving eve, 1971 and parachuted from the airliner over Southwest Washington with $200,000 in cash. Cooper's hijacking is the only unsolved air piracy case in America. His exploit is celebrated in movies, television, song, and now, radio.
Producer's Notes
Audience count: 150. Streamed live on KXRW-FM, Vancouver,
WA, and KXRY-FM, Portland, OR.
— John F. Barber
Promotion
Press
Read the press
release→
Hewitt, Scott. Kiggins
To Host A CooperCon, New Radio Play about the Historic Crime→. The
Columbian, 21 Nov. 2019.
D.B. Cooper
Story Returns to Vancouver→. Clark County Today.com, 19 Nov.
2019.
Graphics
