FD-350 clipping, Seattle Times: former FBI agent hopes to find D.B. Cooper with 'Cadillac of fish-finders'
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Original title: FD-350 clipping, Seattle Times: 'Ex-agent hopes to get D.B. Cooper with Cadillac of fish-finders'
Document date 23 November 1984
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 47 p. 269 (DB Cooper-19671), News clipping, dated 23 Nov 1984, serial SE 164-81-8786 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-47%3A269-269
FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) (Mount Clipping in Space Below)
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) A-22 THE SEATTLE TIMES SEATTLE, WA. Date: 11/23/84 Edition: Title: Character: 164-81 or Classification: Submitting Office: SEATTLE Indexing:
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PORTLAND (UPI) — A former FBI agent is betting that computerized sonar equipment will enable him to find legendary sky-jacker D.B. Cooper, who disappeared by parachuting from an airliner on a rainy Thanksgiving Eve 13 years ago with $200,000 in ransom.
Richard T. Tosaw traveled to an area west of Portland with what he terms the "Cadillac of fish-finders" this fall to scan the bottom of the Columbia River, where he is certain Cooper drowned with the heavy load of $20 bills on Nov. 24, 1971.
[illegible] will show fish 6 inches from the bottom," Tosaw said of the sonar equipment. "It will show Cooper."
Tosaw, a Ceres, Calif. lawyer who wrote a book on Cooper, recently tried out the equipment in the waters off the Fazio Ranch west of Vancouver, Clark County, where $5,800 of the Cooper loot was found on Feb. 10, 1980.
The bills, in three packets, were the only ones ever recovered.
"Cooper is near where the money was found," said Tosaw, who left the FBI years before Cooper's escapade.
The FBI agents who investigated the accident speculated Cooper's jump from the Northwest Airlines Boeing 727 landed him in a thickly wooded area south of Mount St. Helens, but Tosaw disagrees.
His view is that the crew was not able to pinpoint the route that well while traveling at a lower than normal altitude and with the landing gear down, flaps lowered and back door open as Cooper had ordered.
Tosaw thinks the plane was over the Columbia River when Cooper jumped.
Cooper boarded the plane in
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Portland for Seattle and en route showed stewardess Florence Schaffner a briefcase containing red sticks with wires leading to a battery, which he said was a bomb. He demanded $200,000 in used bills, a knapsack, two back-pack parachutes and two chest parachutes.
The crew landed at Seattle-Tacoma Airport, where Cooper allowed the passengers to leave, and the plane was refueled while Northwest officials scurried to get the money.
After the plane left Sea-Tac and started south under Cooper's direction, he told the three stewar-desses to go into the cockpit.
Tosaw says of the crime: "There's a folklore aura about [guess: the] people secretly rooted for him to make it, to beat the system. It was so [guess: somewhat] daring [feat] [illegible] though [illegible]
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164A-81-8786 US b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-19671 COPY SENT TO [illegible] FBI/DOJ
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-8786