Part 53, page 32

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Wild Ride in Air Canada Hijacking

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sengers would be released, but after a half hour, the plane returned to Great Falls and the passengers were released there.

While the plane was on the ground in Great Falls, an unidentified FBI agent tried unsuccessfully to talk the hijacker into giving up. The plane took on 130,000 gallons of fuel at Great Falls for the possible flight to Ireland.

The plane took off for a second time with the pilot, Capt. Vernon Ehman, filing a flight plan for Phoenix, Ariz. But later the DC8 made a midcourse change and the plane headed for Calgary.

Five crewmen, including a stewardess, remained on the plane.

The passengers were tak- en by police van from the plane to the air terminal. Officers refused to let news- men talk with them.

Police said the hijacker warned the passengers not to talk about what happened on the four-engine aircraft or he would kill the crew. Officers said he had a tran- sistor radio and was listen- ing to local newscasts while the plane was on the ground.

One passenger, a young woman, appeared dis- traught and was placed in a wheelchair after she was helped out of the plane.

Stewardess Anna M. Smith told officials none of the passengers was aware

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of the hijack until the plane made its first landing here.

Policewoman Midge Ser- voss brought the money to the hijacker. She said the money was provided by the First Westside National Bank of Great Falls. She refused to disclose who or- dered the payment of the ransom.

Sean Kelly, an IRA repre- sentative touring Western Canada, told a Great Falls television newsman that his organization abhorred

jackings and disavowed the current attempt.

The plane landed at Great Falls International Airport, and the man gave the pilot 15 minutes to refuel and ob- tain the money. The pilot was ordered to circle the airport until the money was brought to the facility, about 100 miles south of the Canadian border.

The plane was carrying 115 paid passengers, three airline employees, and a crew of nine.

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MRS. MIDGE SERVOSS, a Great Falls, Mont., police- woman, sat in an auto last night holding part of the money she brought from a bank to give to the man who hijacked an Air Canada jetliner on route from Vancou- ver, B.C., to Montreal which he ordered to land at Great Falls to obtain the money. Authorities reported he was given $50,000. He had demanded $1.5 million. (AP Photo.)

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2 Arrested on Dope Charge

Two Alaskans, a man, 45, and a woman, 31, were ar- rested at a motel parking lot in the 18700 block of Pa- cific Highway S. after po- lice found them in posses- sion of two ounces of her- oin, police reported yester- day.

The two were ordered held in city jail on suspi- cion of narcotic law viola- tion.

Two ounces of heroin at street prices would be val- ued at more than $2,000, po- lice said.

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[partially illegible overlapping clipping] ...Canada and [the] United States at [the orders] of the hijacker... [he] claimed... ...the Irish... Army (IRA)... ...passengers... Great Falls... ...CALGARY (UPI) A masked man [who] hijacked [an] Air Canada... ...demanded $1.5 million... ...was captured when... ...hospitalized... ...Regina, Sask... ...DB Cooper 22370