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

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NW hijacker, $200,000 vanishes Dan Cooper's fate still a mystery

By EVERETT RICHARDS of The Oregonian staff

Dan Cooper, where are you?

Nobody knows. The fate of this first high-jumping hi- jacker remains one of the most baffling mysteries on the books. After two years of intensive searching, the FBI says it hasn't a single clue of any kind.

"We really know nothing more today than we did li p.m. Wednesday Nov. 24, 1971," Julius Mattson, FBI special agent in charge at Portland, said this week.

When the man called Coop- er parachuted from the rear of a Boeing 727 somewhere south of Woodland, Wash., sometime after 8:10 p.m. that dark and stormy night he simply vanished. So did the $200,000 in $20 bills that he carried in a laundry bag.

The FBI doesn't even know if Dan Cooper ever existed. That's the name he gave when he bought a one-way ticket to Seattle at North- west Airlines' ticket counter in Portland from Dennis Lysne about an hour before he boarded NWA's Flight 305. (The name D. B. Cooper was an error never correct- ed by most of the press.)

The rest is history, and mystery. At Seattle he took 10,000 $20 bills and two sets of parachutes. He opened the rear door of the Boeing 727 soon after takeoff, which caused a red light to come on in the cockpit.

Nothing was heard from him until 8:10 p.m. when the plane was just crossing the Lewis River near Woodland. William Scott thought the hijacker was having trouble with the stairs and asked him on the interphone, "Anything we can do for you?"

Then the light came on in- dicating the stairs were fully

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4/ THE OREGONIAN PORTLAND, OREGON

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