Part 50, page 346

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led the Army to withdraw its helicopters from the hunt.

Other Copters Used

However, other helicopters provided by Weyerhaeuser, the mammoth lumber company, and the Bonneville Power Ad- ministration, were still making intermittent passes over the area. The search was halted at nightfall until tomorrow.

The hunted man has been identified by the F.B.I. only as D. B. Cooper, the name he used Wednesday afternoon when he bought a ticket in Portland, 20 miles south of here, and boarded a Northwest plane to Seattle.

On the way to Seattle, the hijacker, who was described as being about 6 feet tall, weighing 170 pounds and wear- ing a dark suit, dark gray coat and dark glasses, handed a stewardess a note demand- ing $200,000 ransom when the

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[illegible first line] had told him he [illegible] the route without consulting the hijacker. He also quoted the pilot as having said that when he landed the plane in Reno, Nev., for refueling, he thought the hijacker was still on board. Instead, the man, the money, two of the parachutes and the suitcase containing the red cylinders were missing.

The F.B.I. said that the search was being concentrated in this area on the basis of information provided by the crew.

Officials said that the crew's last communication with the hi- jacker came a little after 8 P.M. Wednesday when the jet would have been near Ariel, southwest of Woodland.

If the man bailed out then, the authorities said, the aircraft was at about 7,000 feet and fly- ing at a speed of about 200 miles an hour. At that alti- tude, temperatures were freez-

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ing and there were southwest winds of 25 to 45 knots.

At search headquarters here, officials said that a computer at Fort Lewis, Wash., had been fed this information and had predicted a likely area of the hunt.

Meanwhile, Sheriff Gene Cot- ton of Clark County said that several earlier reports that a man fitting the hijacker's de- scription had been sighted in the area had all proved false[.]

In Portland, The Oregon Jour- nal reported that the F.B.I. was seeking a former southwest Washington sky diver for ques- tioning in the case. An F.B.I. spokesman declined to confirm or deny the report.

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Weather Reports and Forecast

Summary

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