Part 63, page 158

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D.B. COOPER! WHERE ARE YOU?

Three and one-half years after he parachuted from a Northwest Airlines Jet, the skyjacker known as D. B. Cooper and the $200,000 in ransom money are still MISSING.

Who is he? Or who was he? And why with all that is known about him, and with all the resources at their command, has the FBI not been able at least to identify, if not locate him?

According to Mr. Tom Harrington, Information Officer for the FBI in Washington, the investigation is ongoing, the files are still active, and the FBI believes that someday they will bring the case to a satisfactory conclusion. But if they have any new information, they are not revealing it.

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While there are a number of contradictions in the story as it has been told in the various news media at the time and since, the facts according to the FBI and other authorities are these.

Boarded Flight at Portland

There were no hijacking precautions being taken at any airports in 1971, when on November 24, the day before Thanksgiving, an average looking man wearing dark glasses purchased a seat on Northwest Airlines Flight 305 from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington. He gave his name as Dan Cooper, but later the media picked it up as D. B. Cooper and that is the name that he has continued to be known by. It was a one way ticket from the twenty-five minute flight and he boarded the Boeing 727 along with thirty-six other passengers that afternoon. Flight 305 had originated in Washington, D. C. and made stops in Minneapolis, Great Falls, Montana, Missoula, Montana, and Spokane, Washington, before arriving in Portland. It was to terminate at Seattle.

The crew consisted of three pilots, Captain William Scott, Flight Officer W. (Bob) Ratacazak and Flight Officer H. E. Anderson, and three stewardesses, Tina Mucklow, Florence Schaffner and Alice Hancock. Shortly after takeoff, the man known as Cooper handed a note to Stewardess Schaffner.

"I thought he was trying to hustle me," the stewardess said later at a press conference. "I stuffed the note in my purse and he motioned that I should read it."

The note said he had a bomb and wanted to go to Mexico. When she looked up he showed her a briefcase with red cylinders that looked like dynamite connected by wires. Following his instructions, she sat down beside him and wrote down instructions to the pilot.

Wanted 10,000 Twenty Dollar Bills

He wanted ten thousand twenty- Continued on Page 8