Part 53, page 428

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

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Skyjacker: Is He a 1971 Robin Hood?

WOODLAND, Wash. (AP) — An airplane hijacker has vanished with two parachutes and $200,000, and the search for him has ended for all but the FBI. A University of Washington sociologist calls the sky piracy an "awesome feat in the battle of man against the machine." Dr. Otto Larsen said the skyjacker apparently has won public admiration as "one man overcoming, for the time being anyway, technology, the corporation, the establishment, the system." Thus, Larsen said, the hijacker "comes off as a kind of curious Robin Hood, taking from the rich — or at least the big and complex. It doesn't matter whether he gives it to the poor or not." FBI officials in- Portland, Ore., and Seattle say they will continue their pursuit of the man who apparently bailed out of the hijacked Northwest Airlines jetliner last week as it flew from Seattle to Reno, Nev. But local law enforcement agencies have turned to other obs.

"There's nothing new and we've taken our men off unless something else turns up," a spokesman for the Clark County, Wash., sheriff's office said Monday of the search for the hijacker in the brushy, timbered Cascade Mountain foothills of southwest Washington. The FBI continued questioning dozens of persons who believed they recognized a composite sketch of the hijacker, but the investigators reported no success in finding a definite lead. Officials said they had concentrated the search around Woodland because the jetliner's flight recorder had indicated small shifts in the plane's air position as it passed over the area. Law enforcement officers searching for the hijacker were faced with three major disadvantages — surprise, piecemeal evidence and the meticulous planning which apparently went into the deed, the first involving the escape of a hijacker by parachute.

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A-3 Herald-Examiner Los Angeles, Calif.

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Date: 11/30/71 Edition: 8 Star Author: Editor: Title:

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Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Los Angeles ☐ Being Investigated

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SEARCHED / INDEXED / SERIALIZED / FILED / 13 DEC 1 1971 FBI — LOS ANGELES

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