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In 2003, a team spent years casing the Antwerp Diamond Centre's "uncrackable" vault. They defeated 10 layers of security including infrared sensors, seismic detectors, and a 100-million-combination lock. They stole $100M+ in diamonds. Then one member left his sandwich at the scene.
November 24, 1971. A man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient flight, collected $200,000 ransom, then parachuted into a storm over the Pacific Northwest. He was never found. The only unsolved hijacking in US aviation history.