<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Richard_Floyd_McCoy,_Jr." class="extiw" title="w:'Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr.">Richard McCoy, Jr.</a> an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking" class="extiw" title="w:Aircraft hijacking">aircraft hijacker</a>.  McCoy hijacked a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines" class="extiw" title="w:United Airlines">United Airlines</a> passenger jet for ransom in 1972. Due to a similar '"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/modus_operandi" class="extiw" title="w:modus operandi">modus operandi</a>", law enforcement officials named McCoy as a suspect for the still-unidentified "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper" class="extiw" title="w:D. B. Cooper">D. B. Cooper</a>," who committed his unsolved crime four months before McCoy.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/richard-floyd-mccoy">Famous Cases &amp; Criminals: Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr. - Aircraft Hijacking</a>. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2014-07-31">31 July 2014</span>.