For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Ben DowellThe Hijacker Who Vanished: The Mystery of DB CooperBBC Four, 9pmWhen a man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded a 727 at Portland airport bound for Seattle in November 1971 he gave a note to a stewardess informing her that he was carrying a bomb. This was a golden era for hijacking, a time when, extraordinarily, there were barely any airport security checks. But even in these strange times Cooper’s request for $200,000 and four parachutes was odd — his strategy becoming clear only when the now passenger-free plane was flying at 10,000ft over Washington state and he jumped out with the lolly. Nobody knows what happened next, and this

Source: The Times November 23, 2020 00:00 UTC