UPI report that hijacker landed in wooded area east of Woodland, Wash.
Document date 27 November 1971
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with him. "I didn't want the F.B.I. to go along," he said. "If they had decided to, I probably wouldn't have gone," he said. The episode began early to- day when Vic Dugger, owner of Dugger Wrecking Service in Albuquerque, said he was called to pick up a car that reportedly would not start. When he got to the address given him, a man was standing in the street waving his arms. As he stopped, a man stuck a .45-caliber pistol in the win- dow and two more jumped into his tow truck, forced him to drive to the airport and up to the plane and left the truck. He later identified the three, from police pictures, as the murder suspects. Ronald Simpson of Albu- querque, a T.W.A. employe, was refueling the plane and was on board when the hijack- ers came on. He said that one of them had asked him, "Have you ever been to Cuba before?" Mr. Simpson replied that he had not and said, "Well, there's a first time for everything." He said that the hijackers had let him go when he explained he had to unhook his fuel truck.
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WOODLAND, Wash., Nov. 27 (UPI)—The F.B.I. said to- day that a hijacker who para- chuted from a plane Wednes- day night with $200,000 ransom probably landed in a small wooded area east of here and might still be there, possibly with a broken leg. "We feel he's in this area," Thomas Manning, an agent, said of the three-by-five-mile stretch of rough timber coun- try 35 miles north of Port- land, Ore. The hijacker took over a Northwest Airlines 727 with a device he said was a bomb during a flight from Portland to Seattle. He forced the plane to land at Seattle, col- lected four parachutes and $200,000 and allowed the pas- sengers off. Then he ordered the crew to fly him to Reno. Somewhere along the way he parachuted into the night.
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