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Hijacker Believed Injured

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WOODLAND, Wash. (UPI) -- The FBI said yesterday a hi- jacker who parachuted from an airliner with $200,000 ransom probably landed in a timber- ed area east of here and might still be there, possibly with a broken leg. "We feel he is in this area," FBI [Agent] Thomas Manning said of the 3-by-5-mile stretch of rough timber country 25 miles north of Portland, Ore. "If we have to, we'll cover every square foot of it." A search plane spotted "some- thing white" [several] miles north- west of the main search area, but it turned out to be a piece of plastic, probably left by loggers. The hijacker, a [middle]- aged man who called himself D.B. Cooper, seized a Northwest Airlines [727] with a "bomb" during a [flight] from [illegible] He forced the [pilots] to land in Seattle to collect [four] para- chutes and $200,000 in $20 bills in [illegible] [illegible remainder of left column]

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Headline of newspaper article reporting that the DB Cooper hijacker was believed to have been injured upon landing. UPI wire story datelines from Woodland, WA. FBI agent Thomas Manning states the hijacker D.B. Cooper likely landed in a 3-by-5-mile stretch of timber country 25 miles north of Portland, OR, possibly with a broken leg. A search plane spotted white material that turned out to be plastic from loggers. The article recounts Cooper's seizure of a Northwest Airlines plane with a bomb threat, landing in Seattle to collect parachutes and $200,000 in $20 bills. Photograph embedded within the newspaper article. Content unclear due to low scan resolution. Right column continuation of the article. Text is largely illegible due to image degradation and overlap with the embedded photograph. References appear to be a witness or flight attendant account of interacting with the hijacker.

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