FD-350 clipping, St. Paul Dispatch, 'Air Pirate Either Good Jumper Or Crazy, FBI Says'
Document date 27 November 1971
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 77 pp. 391–392 (DB Cooper-33785–33786), News clipping, dated 27 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-77%3A391-392
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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Air Pirate Either Good Jumper Or Crazy, FBI Says
WOODLAND, Wash. (P) — The missing air pirate who bailed out of a jetliner carrying a parachute and 24½ pounds of $20 bills was "either an experienced jumper or crazy," the FBI agent coordinating the search for him says.
Officials say they believe the hijacker parachuted from the plane over this sparsely populated area of south-western Washington, but add they have found no trace of him in two days of searching. They plan to resume the ef-fort today.
FBI coordinator Tom Manning said Friday that searchers were working on the premise that the man was an experienced jumper.
"If he is in the area and has landed in rough terrain, it's an educated guess we will get some trace of him," Manning said. "We have to presume at this point he is still alive."
AUTHORITIES disclosed Friday that the $200,000 Northwest Airlines paid the skyjacker in response to a bomb threat was supplied in $20 bills — a packet of 10,000 bills that weighed 24½ pounds and measured 8 by 6 by 27 inches.
Details involving the speed of the three-engine Boeing 727 jetliner, its course and the prevailing winds as it flew over the area Wednesday night were fed into a computer Friday in a quest for information that would help search parties.
FBI agents told searchers to look for two white para-chute canopies and portions of a pink one found open and torn aboard the plane when it landed in Reno, Nev. They also said there might be traces of some crew food rations, which were missing from the plane.
A 100-man posse, aided by 10 patrol cars and six heli-copters, fanned out Friday in a five-mile line through the mountain foothills, but Manning said the eight-hour effort under low clouds and misty rain did not yield any useful information.
The incident began after the plane took off from Port-land, Ore., for Seattle, Wash., the last stop on a flight that had originated in Washington, D.C.
THE MAN — described as calm, middle-aged and well-dressed — boarded at Portland.
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1 St. Paul Dispatch —St. Paul, Minn.
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Date: Nov. 27, 1971 Edition: Evening Author: Editor: H.G Burnham Jr. Title:
Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Minneapolis
☐ Being Investigated
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[illegible signature/date stamp] INDEXED [guess: NOV] 2 9 1971
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DB Cooper-33785
The Air Force disclosed that pilots of eight chase planes which tailed the jetliner did not see a person leave the plane. Five planes followed the jetliner all the way and three picked it up en route to Reno. But officials had said earlier that the chase planes would have difficulty spotting a skydiver at night if he did not open his parachute imme- diately.
When the plane landed at Reno for refueling, the man was gone.
So was the $200,000, the briefcase a stewardess said had contained objects appearing to be sticks of dynamite, some food rations, two parachutes and part of a third. The FBI speculates the man may have used parts of the torn parachute to bind the money to him when he jumped.
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—AP Wirephotos HIJACK SEARCH SECTIONS MAPPED OUT FBI Agent Tom Manning At Work
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DB Cooper-33786