Part 77, page 391

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

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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Air Pirate Either Good Jumper Or Crazy, FBI Says

WOODLAND, Wash. (P) — The missing air pirate who bailed out of a jetliner carrying a parachute and 24½ pounds of $20 bills was "either an experienced jumper or crazy," the FBI agent coordinating the search for him says.

Officials say they believe the hijacker parachuted from the plane over this sparsely populated area of south-western Washington, but add they have found no trace of him in two days of searching. They plan to resume the ef-fort today.

FBI coordinator Tom Manning said Friday that searchers were working on the premise that the man was an experienced jumper.

"If he is in the area and has landed in rough terrain, it's an educated guess we will get some trace of him," Manning said. "We have to presume at this point he is still alive."

AUTHORITIES disclosed Friday that the $200,000 Northwest Airlines paid the skyjacker in response to a bomb threat was supplied in $20 bills — a packet of 10,000 bills that weighed 24½ pounds and measured 8 by 6 by 27 inches.

Details involving the speed of the three-engine Boeing 727 jetliner, its course and the prevailing winds as it flew over the area Wednesday night were fed into a computer Friday in a quest for information that would help search parties.

FBI agents told searchers to look for two white para-chute canopies and portions of a pink one found open and torn aboard the plane when it landed in Reno, Nev. They also said there might be traces of some crew food rations, which were missing from the plane.

A 100-man posse, aided by 10 patrol cars and six heli-copters, fanned out Friday in a five-mile line through the mountain foothills, but Manning said the eight-hour effort under low clouds and misty rain did not yield any useful information.

The incident began after the plane took off from Port-land, Ore., for Seattle, Wash., the last stop on a flight that had originated in Washington, D.C.

THE MAN — described as calm, middle-aged and well-dressed — boarded at Portland.

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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.)

1 St. Paul Dispatch —St. Paul, Minn.

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Date: Nov. 27, 1971 Edition: Evening Author: Editor: H.G Burnham Jr. Title:

Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Minneapolis

☐ Being Investigated

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[illegible signature/date stamp] INDEXED [guess: NOV] 2 9 1971

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