On Tuesday, the FBI announced that they have stopped actively investigating the case of D.B. Cooper, the unidentified sky pirate who jumped out of a hijacked passenger jet with $200,000 in 1971. So, hey, if you’ve been waiting to make a Facebook page, now’s the time, D.B., my dude!

In his impressive new book Relentless Strike, author Sean Naylor chronicles the sprawling history of the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, America’s special forces killing apparatus. It’s filled with anecdotes of both bravery and waste, but one in particular stands out: In the aftermath of 9/11, the Pentagon considered staging an airline hijacking to fool us into feeling safer.

It was 41 years ago that convicted murderer George Wright helped hijack a plane bound for Miami, took it to Algeria and vanished. Authorities announced today they've found him hiding out in a Portuguese resort town under the name Jose Luis Jorge Dos Santos.

CNN got its hands on new (or newly-public) video of the aftermath of the crash of United 93—the 9/11 hijackings' fourth plane, which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers revolted against the hijackers. It's apparently the first video that the public has seen of the aftermath of the crash; you can't see much—not that you'd want to—but the narration of the anonymous videographer is riveting in its own way. [via Mediaite]

A man was successfully overtaken by the passengers and crew of an Alitalia flight after he tried to hijack the Rome-bound plane and get it to land in Tripoli.