Facts: - death place: virginia beach , virginia - charge: aircraft piracy - image name: richard mccoy , jr. . jpg - conviction penalty: 45 years incarceration - death date: 9 november 1974 - spouse: karen burns mccoy - children: chanti richard - birth date: 7 december 1942 - name: richard floyd mccoy , jr. . - parents: myrtle mccoy richard floyd mccoy , sr. . - birth place: cove city , north carolina Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of richard mccoy , jr. .
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richard floyd mccoy , jr. -lrb- december 7 , 1942 -- november 9 , 1974 -rrb- was an american aircraft hijacker .mccoy hijacked a united airlines passenger jet for ransom in 1972 .due to a similar '' modus operandi '' , law enforcement officials named mccoy as a suspect for the still-unidentified '' d. b. cooper , '' who committed his unsolved crime four months before mccoy .