Part 53, page 377

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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)

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Computer Guesses Site of Skyjacker's Landing

WOODLAND, Wash. (UPI) — With planes grounded by rain and snow, teams of FBI agents searched a patch of wood- ed foothills Sunday where a computer calculated a middle-aged hijacker para- chuted from an airliner with $200,000 in ransom money. They also checked out a motorist's report that he spotted something that looked like a parachute hanging from a tree in rugged mountain country about 60 miles north of here. The motorist, John Mil- ler of Seattle, told police he spotted something white on a hillside be- tween Tenino and Bucoda but was too far away to de- termine if it was a chute with his binoculars. FBI agents said it would take a few hours to check the re- port. Tom Manning, FBI agent in charge of the search, has insisted that the skyjacker parachuted Wednesday night from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 into a three-by-five- mile strip of timbered Cas- cade Mountain foothills about 35 miles north of Portland, Ore. He said the jumper, who was wearing street shoes, could have suffered a broken leg. Using a "bomb," the hi- jacker forced the plane from Portland to land at Seattle, where he was giv- en the ransom in $20 bills in a white canvas bag and four sporting parachutes. He ordered the plane to fly to Mexico but was not aboard when it landed at Reno for refueling.

Search Computerized "We've taken radar re- ports, it's all been com- puterized and we feel he's in this area," Manning said from his Woodland headquarters. The esti- mate was based on the plane's in-flight recorder, which showed when the hijacker lowered the 727's rear steps and a "slight change in attitude" three minutes later, indicating he had jumped. The FBI issued a com- posite drawing of the hi- jacker Saturday, describ- ing him as a "soft speaker, polite, with a conventional business-style hairdo." The skyjacker, who boarded the plane under the name D. B. Cooper, was described as a "white with an olive complexion," [guess: 6-feet], 170-175 pounds, in his mid-40s, with black hair and brown eyes. He wore brown-tinted glasses in black plastic frames, a dark suit or sport coat and slacks, white shirt, with narrow black tie, black trenchcoat and black or [guess: four suns].

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I-6 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, Calif.

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Date: 11/29/71 Edition: Monday Final Author: Editor: Title:

Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Los Angeles

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