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Part 95, page 281

DB Cooper-42688Serials SE 134-81

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SE 134-81 Undated

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On November 25, [guess: 1971] the banks of Lake [guess: Merwin], partly located in the police search area, were completely patrolled by the bases of the Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office with all suspicious sightings personally checked. One sighting of a white object on the south side of the lake was [guess: unable] to be checked on November 26, 1971 but on November 27, 1971 was checked by helicopter with negative results.

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On November 26, 1971 two Army helicopters, one Bonneville Power Administration helicopter, and one [guess: Weyerhaeuser] Company helicopter plus five fixed wing aircraft from Woodland and Vancouver, Washington were [guess: aloft] over the search area for seven hours of total flying time. Several sightings of unidentified items were checked by ground contact with negative results.

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On November 27, 1971 the search was continued with the same number of personnel, ground units, three helicopters and seven fixed wing planes. The search area on this day encompassed a 100 [guess: square] mile area on [guess: the] local cut [guess: a] sed upon [guess: criteria] data [guess: furnished] by [guess: Northwest] Airlines [guess: we] [guess: of] [illegible] position at the time [guess: and] not left the plane. An area averaging ten miles on the east and west sides of the airline flight path and [guess: extending] from the vicinity of [guess: Kelama], Washington to the suburbs of Vancouver, Washington was [guess: gridded] and [guess: criss] crossed by the [guess: aircraft] mentioned with negative results. All sightings of suspicious items were checked with negative results.

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The ground search on November 27, 1971 consisted of contacts by personnel in ground units with as many individuals as possible in the search area.

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On November 27, 1971, in addition to contacting all individuals in the search area all airfields with any aircraft or parachuting schools or activity were contacted from Vancouver - Camas, Washougal area to Woodland. A number of individuals contacted at these locations gave information pertaining to skydivers, pilots, clubs in- volved in skydiving and other information, all of which has been checked with negative results.

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