Part 50, page 344

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Weather Hampers Search For Parachuting Hijacker

By DOUGLAS E. KNEELAND Special to The New York Times

WOODLAND, Wash., Nov. 26 — F.B.I. agents and sheriff's deputies, plagued by low clouds and fog that hindered both helicopter and ground efforts, searched the woods and farmlands near here today for the hijacker they believe parachuted into the area from a Northwest Airlines 727 with $200,000 in ransom money. "We're either looking for a parachute, or a hole in the ground," said Under Sheriff Tom McDowell of Clark County. "He's probably long gone," said another deputy, one of about 30 from Clark and adjacent Cowlitz County who, with a half-dozen agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, are conducting the hunt for the

plane landed. He also showed her a suitcase containing red cylinders connected with wires that he said was a bomb. At Seattle, the money was obtained in $20 bills from a number of local banks. The man, who had also demanded parachutes, was provided with four of them. He then allowed the 36 other passengers and two stewardesses to leave the plane.

Destination Mexico

He told the pilot to fly to Mexico City at no more than 10,000 feet at a low speed. He then locked up the other crew members and remained alone in the subzero temperatures of the cabin with the rear doo[r]

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