Part 78, page 386
Document date 13 February 1980
FBI 164-81, Vault Part 78 p. 386 (DB Cooper-34264), News clipping, dated 13 Feb 1980, serial MP 164-73-625 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/parts/Cooper-Part-78/pages/386
Transcript
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[MAP: Shows Pacific Northwest with Canada, Washington, Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, Oregon labeled]
the three stewardesses were allowed to leave the plane. The money and parachutes were loaded and the plane took off for Reno, Nev. The pilot was ordered to fly as slowly as possible.
Somewhere over southwest Washington, the hijacker opened the rear door of the plane, and he, the money and one of the parachutes disappeared into thin air.
Officials say it is the only unsolved hijacking in the country. In 1977, just to make sure Cooper didn't escape prosecution because of the statute of limitations, he was indicted in absentia on federal charges.
Cooper has become somewhat of a folk hero. T-shirts ask: "D.B. Cooper, Where Are You?," at least one song has been written about him, and residents of Ariel, Wash., near where Cooper was thought to have leaped from the plane, have commemorated the hijacking with an annual "D.B. Cooper Day."
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Associated Press
These deteriorated $20 bills were among the money identified by the FBI as part of airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper's loot.
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DB Cooper-34264