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Hijacker Collects Ransom of $200,000; Parachutes From Jet and Disappears

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By EARL CALDWELL Special to The New York Times

RENO, Nov. 25—Authorities in four Western states were searching a 500-mile corridor of mountains and river valleys tonight for a hijacker who parachuted from a jet airliner with $200,000 in ransom money. The crime, accomplished by a cool, middle-aged man in a business suit, was apparently intricately planned. The ran- som paid by Northwest Air- lines was the biggest ever sur- rendered in a United States hijacking, and it was the first time a hijacker had parachuted from a plane. A spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation said [illegible — text cut off at bottom]

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glasses, but otherwise undis- tinguished from the rest of the passengers, demanded that when the plane landed in Seat- tle there be $200,000 in ran- som and four parachutes. "He was quite relaxed, sit- ting in the back seat on the starboard [right] side," said Robert B. Gregory of Sumner, Wash.; a passenger. William Mitchell of Redmond, Wash., who was across the aisle from the man, said neither he nor the others had any idea what he was up to. "I saw one stewardess an- swer a call and her face dropped," recalled Richard Simmons, who runs a convict rehabilitation program in

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