Part 54, page 80

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(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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Accomplice may have picked up jet skyjacker at backwoods landing strip

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 [guess: combed] the wooded ravine near the airstrip during the manhunt last weekend. Th[e]

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18 THE OREGONIAN PORTLAND, OREGON

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Date: DECEMBER 3, 197[1] Edition: Author: Editor: ART BUSHNELL Title:

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☐ Being Investigated

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