News clipping · FD-350 clipping, St. Paul Dispatch, FBI search for hijacker of Boeing 727 · 26 November 1971 · page 2 of 2AIType, title and date: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
Document date 26 November 1971AIDates: machine-written — generated by an AI model from the transcripts, and it can be wrong. The scan is the source; the transcript is machine-generated from it.
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"It would be a very safe
drop," Boeing's John
Wheeler said of a parachute
jump from the rear door.
"He'd be away from the
flaps and other engines and
go straight down."
The 727 is one of the few
commercial aircraft models
with an exit at its extreme
rear, under the tail.
THE HIJACKER confined
Scott, flight officers Wil-
liam Rataczak and H. E.
Anderson and stewardess
Tina Mucklow in the cockpit
after the 727 reached flight
altitude on leaving Seat-
tle.
He remained alone in the
passenger compartment,
where the temperature
dropped to 7 degrees below
zero with the rear entry
door open.
His, last communication
with the crew came shortly
after 8 p.m. Wednesday and
he is believed to have bailed
out of the aircraft at about
8:13 p.m., the FBI said.
That would have been 36
minutes after liftoff at Seat-
tle.