FD-350 clipping, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, recap of the 1971 skyjacking
Document date 13 February 1980
Also filed at: Part 65 p. 185 · Part 121 p. 322
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Part of: FD-350 clipping, Herald Examiner: 'Mystery remains in the saga of D.B. Cooper'
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 63 p. 61 (DB Cooper-26390), News clipping, dated 13 Feb 1980 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-63%3A061-061
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) A-1 HERALD EXAMINER LOS ANGELES, CA Date: 2/13/80 Edition: Wednesday, Latest
Title: MYSTERY REMAINS IN SAGA OF D.B. COOPER Character: or DAILY Classif[ication] 164-457 Submitting Office: Los Angeles
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Mystery remains in the saga of D.B. Cooper
PORTLAND, Ore. — The mystery surrounding D.B. Cooper's skyjacking and disappearance eight years ago has been rekindled by a Vancouver, Wash., family's inadvertent discovery of worn packets of $20 bills on the Columbia River shoreline — part of Cooper's $200,000 ransom.
The saga which changed the nature of airline piracy began on Thanksgiving Day, 1971, when Cooper boarded Northwest Airlines flight 305 for a flight from Portland to Seattle. Once aboard, he handed a crew member a note, saying he was carrying a bomb in a satchel and wanted $200,000 in unmarked $20 bills.
When the jetliner landed at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport that evening, authorities had arranged the cash and had also obtained four parachutes, as instructed by Cooper.
Cooper then allowed the flight's 36 passengers and all crew members but two pilots and one stewardess to disembark. He then ordered the aircraft to take off for Reno, Nev.
At one point in that flight, the crew felt a fluctuation in cabin pressure, which suggested the jetliner's rear cabin door had opened.
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FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78)
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Sub. B.
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SEARCHED........INDEXED........ SERIALIZED........FILED........ FEB 1 3 1980 FBI — LOS ANGELES
SEARCHED [illegible] THE BUREAU SERIALIZED FEB 9 1980 FBI/DOJ
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DB Cooper-26390
Serials: 164-457