Part 54, page 68

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Accomplice may have picked up jet skyjacker at backwoods landing s[trip]

By DARYL LEMBKE LA Times-Washington Post Service

WOODLAND, Wash. — A light plane swept in out of the stormy night and circled over a crude airstrip in the hills 10 miles east of here.

The weather was rainy and windy—no fit night for a joy- riding pilot to be landing on the bumpy, unlighted hilltop airstrip near a wooded ra- vine.

Yet some nearby residents say that a small plane did land at a little after 8 p.m. Nov. 24, at the same time and in the same area where a hijacker is believed to have parachuted from an airliner with $200,000 in $20 bills.

The eyewitness accounts of the strange plane could ex- plain how the hijacker es- caped a three-day manhunt, or at least how he had plan- ned to escape if he survived the parachute jump.

He could have had an ac- complice who flew in and waited for him, or, there could have been a third party in a car who picked him up and brought him to the plane.

Adding credence to this theory is the fact that some- one in a car apparently rendezoused with a pilot at another, nearby airstrip the night before the hijacking and went for what could have been a pre-hijack scout- ing flight in equally bad weather.

Those who say they saw the light plane on the night of the hijacking have been questioned several times by FBI agents, who also combed the wooded ravine[s] near the airstrip during the manhunt last weekend. The

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18 THE OREGONIAN PORTLAND, OREGON

Date: 12/3/71 Edition: Author: Editor: Title:

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☐ Being Investigated

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