Dan Cooper is the alias the media gave a man in an unsolved plane hijacking and robbery from 1971 in which the thief also parachuted out midflight.
Rex Linn (Nathan Riggs) and Clayne Crawford (Martin Riggs) both appeared together in the first season of CSI Miami.
Adrian Pasdar (Dan Cooper) played Naval Aviator Chipper in the original Top Gun, while Monica Barbaro (Nora Cooper) played Naval Aviator Phoenix in the sequel Top Gun: Maverick. In this episode they were both involved in a robbery on board an airplane.