Part 78, page 11

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

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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Hijacker Search 'Over Full Route'

WOODLAND, Wash. (UPI) — The FBI said Saturday aircraft would search the entire route from Seattle to Reno for a hijacker who parachuted from an airliner with $200,000 ransom.

Julius Mattson, special agent in charge in Port- land, Ore., said the "whole vector" of the jet- liner's flight would be cov- ered when the weather clears. There is presently a 600-foot visibility ceil- ing.

The plane's route passed over Portland, Ore., Medford, Ore., and Red Bluff, Calif., before land- ing in Reno.

Saturday's activity cen- tered around a wooded area near Woodland, Wash., where the FBI be- lieves the man might have jumped with a white bag of money Wednesday night.

"We feel he's in this area," FBI agent Thomas Manning said of the three-by-five-mile stretch of rough timber country 35 miles north of Port- land. "If we have to, we'll cover every square foot of it."

Drizzling rain and low clouds forced the FBI to call off an afternoon air search of the tiny area where they believe the man might be hiding, pos- sibly with a broken leg.

The hijacker, a swarthy, middle-aged man who called himself "D. B. Cooper," took over a Northwest Airlines 727 with a "bomb" during a flight from Portland,

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Wednesday. He forced the plane to land at Seattle, collected four parachutes and $200,000 in $20 bills in a white cloth bag and let the passengers off. Then he ordered the crew to fly him to Reno, Nev.

Somewhere along the way he parachuted into the night from the plane's open rear door.

Manning said the plane's in-flight recorder showed that at 8:10 p.m., when the plane was over the target area of the search, instruments showed the rear door being lowered.

Three minutes later, he said, a "slight change in altitude" of the plane was recorded, indicating that was the moment of the jump.

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SKY-JUMPING hijacker looks something like this composite drawing re- leased Saturday by the FBI. The man they're looking for hijacked a Northwest Air- lines jet, collected $200,000 in $20 bills and bailed out somewhere be- tween Portland and Reno Wednesday night. —AP Wirephoto

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

16 St Paul Pioneer —Press St. Paul, Minn.

Date: Nov. 28, 1971 Edition: Morning Author: Editor: Donald J. O'Grady Title:

Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Minneapolis

[_] Being Investigated

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