Austin American-Statesman clipping 'Skyjacker Nearly Home Free'
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 24 p. 570 (DB Cooper-998), News clipping, dated 27 Nov 1974 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-24%3A570-570
Skyjacker Nearly 'Home Free'
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — It has been three years since the skyjacker called Dan Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines jet with $200,000 in ransom money and wrote himself into the folklore of the Pacific Northwest.
Two hours and he'll be home free — if he's alive.
"The federal statute of limitations on that crime is five years," said Sidney Lezak, U.S. attorney in Portland.
These are the events of that Thanksgiving Eve as authorities reconstructed them:
A man who gave his name as 'Dan Cooper' bought a one-way ticket at Portland International Airport to Seattle aboard Northwest Airlines flight 305 which originated in Washington, D.C.
In the air, Cooper handed stewardess [illegible]
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[guess: blackout] a note saying he had a bomb. Following Cooper's orders, He wanted 10,000 $20 bills to be delivered to him at Seattle in a laundry sack, along with two sets of parachutes.
Then he ordered the plane to fly south to Reno, Nev., at 200 miles per hour, at 10,000 feet, flaps down. The crew was to stay in the cockpit, [illegible] indicating the plane's rear boarding ramp had been unlatched.
Nothing was heard from Cooper for about 20 minutes. At 8:10 p.m. at the plane crossed the Lewis River in southwestern Washington, Capt. William Scott thought the skyjacker was having trouble with the ramp and called back over the plane's interphone.
There was no answer.
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DAN COOPER
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FORECAST Expect fair weather with mild afternoons through Thursday. Winds will be light northeasterly becoming southeasterly Thursday. The high for this afternoon is expected in the upper 60s with a low tonight in the mid 40s. Thursday's high is expected in the low 70s.
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The Austin American-Statesman Vol. 104—No. 88 Austin, Texas, Wednesday, November 27, 1974 4 Sections 15 Cents Evening Edition
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DB Cooper-998