Part 53, page 172
Document date 25 November 1971
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 53 p. 172 (DB Cooper-22510), News clipping, dated 25 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-53/pages/172
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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
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Hijacker remains at large
A widespread search was under way today for a middle-aged hijacker who apparently parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 between Seattle and Reno last evening.
The man was missing when the jetliner arrived in Reno. So was the $200,000 ransom he had collected at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport in exchange for the plane's 36 passengers and two stewardesses.
Four remaining crew members were in the cockpit on the Seattle-Reno flight and did not see the hijacker leave the plane. They were unharmed.
The rear door of the 727 was left open on the hijacker's orders. Parachutes had been put aboard the plan[e] here.
A Federal Bureau of In[vestigation] spokesman i[n] Las Vegas said the hijacker left the plane over Washing[ton] but this conflicted with other reports.
"There's no way he could have gotten off in Reno," said Harold E. Campbell, Jr., special agent in charg[e]
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P. Al Seattle Times Seattle, Washington
Date: 11-25-71 Edition: Author: Editor: Henry McLeod Title: UNSUB;Northwest Airlines, Flight 305, Portland to Seattle Character: 11/24/71 or CAA-HIJACKING;.. EX[T] Classification: 164S81 Submitting Office: SEATTLE
☐ Being Investigated
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[partially illegible stamps] DB Cooper-22510 FBI--SEATTLE