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flight carrying a paper bag in his hand. Soon after takeoff, he told stewardesses he had a bomb and he wanted $200,000 in cash and four parachutes.

The Northwest Airlines 727 landed in Seattle and the other passengers, who did not realize anything was amiss, got off. Coop- er's demands were met and the plane took off again for Reno, car- rying only Cooper and the crew. Somewhere over Southwest Washington, Cooper bailed out with the money and has not been seen since, despite extensive searches.

It is the nation's only unsolved hijacking.

Last month, Cowlitz County Sheriff Les Nelson revealed that an elk hunter had found a heavy plastic placard of the type found on 727s. That placard was found to be missing off the 727 hijacked by Cooper, but not until after the F.B.I. conducted a simulation of the hijacking about six weeks aft- er the actual incident.

So, although it's been called the first real link to Cooper, nothing can be proved.

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