Part 45, page 241

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the area. The airport area was badly overgrown with weeds and made a perfect hiding place for pheasants and other small animals. One of the FBI Agents, after having had several pheasants fly up from under his feet, heard the brush in front of him rustling. He turned his flashlight on just in time to see the back end of a skunk. The skunk, being a good shot, made a direct hit, putting the Agent out of commission.

After an all night search, neither the hijacker, his parachute nor the extortion money had been located. It was then that a telephone call came into the Salt Lake City Office of the FBI. The caller advised he had an acquaintance who on several occasions had talked of the perfect plan for hijacking an airplane. This caller advised that his friend was Richard Floyd Mc Coy, Jr., who was a Vietnam veteran, a helicopter pilot and an avid sky diver. Mc Coy was reportedly a member of the Utah Air National Guard and a student at the Brigham Young University, where he was studying police science. Coincidentally, the "erfect hijacking plan" discussed by Mc Coy was almost identical to the plan implemented by the hijacker in this instance.

Following the suggestion of the name Richard Floyd Mc Coy, Jr., as a suspect in this matter, the St. Louis Division of the FBI was telephonically contacted and was requested to