The man in the photo "looked real famil- iar" he said,
. Jay D. Simpson told The Sun the agent did not say what they were investigating, bijt asked .. "if I recognized the fellow in the picture, if I'd ever seen him before."
USimpson said he did not know the man. "In the picture he showed us, he told us
the man was completely bald and when the picture was taken he had a wig on," he: said.
A customer who was in the barber shop at the time; Dennis A. Smith, co-owner of The Apothecary Shop, said today he re- members the FBI agent's visit.
"Both barbers said he (the man photo- graphed) looked real familiar but they couldn't place him."
"Stephanie Wahl next door at L. H. King Imports told me they were looking for D. B. Cooper," he said.
"Apparently they're hitting all the barber shops and wig shops," Smith said.
The skyjacking occurred last Nov., 24 : on a flight from Portland to Seattle, -
The FBI, in a circular to law enforcement agencies, 'listed "Cooper" as being" white, male, in his mid-40s, 5-foot-10 to 6-foot, 170- 180 pounds, average to well-built, with an olive complexion, medium smooth and a Latin appearance.
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The FBI, in a circular to law enforcement agencies, 'listed "Cooper" as being" white, male, in his mid-40s, 5-foot-10 to 6-foot, 170- 180 pounds, average to well-built, with an olive complexion, medium smooth and a Latin appearance.
The circular said he had dark brown or black hair, normal style, parted on the left and, combed back, with sideburns at . low. car levei.
Other details from the circular included: "Eyes: Possibly brown. During latter · part of flight put on dark, wrap-around sun- glasses with dark rim's.
"Voice: Low, spoke intelligently; no particular accent, possibly from Mid- west section of the U.S ....
"Characteristic: Heavy smoker Raleigh filter tip cigarettes.
"Wearing apparel: Black or brown suit; white shirt; narrow black tie; black dress, suit; black rain-type overcoat or dark top coat; dark briefcase or attache case; car- ried paper bag 4"x12"x14"; brown shoes.'
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Quick apprehension of the suspects in two back- to-back airplane hijackings over the weekend is new confirmation of the continuing effectiveness of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Likewise, yester- day's thwarting of a half-hearted amateurish at- tempt at the Portland airport.
More than that, it is a gratifying demonstration that pirating a plane and jeopardizing the lives of passengers and crew in order to extort money does not pay, D. B. Cooper notwithstanding.
Cooper remains the only fugitive who has frus- trated federal agents. And none of the money he extorted has turned up. There is no evidence that he survived to spend it, but the fact that neither he nor his body has been found doubtless inspired imi- tators who used the same techniques. Hopefully, their failure will discourage others who now should realize that the odds are long against them.
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IT doesn't pay to imitate "D. B. Cooper." If the truth be known, it probably doesn't pay to be "D. B. Cooper," either.
Excellent work by Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law - enforcement agents resulted in the rapid arrest over the weekend of two suspects in separate extorlion-parachute-hi- jacking escapades modeled on the exploits of "D. B. Cooper," who parachuted out of a hijacked, airliner with $200,000 Thanksgiv- ing Eve after ordering the plane to fly from Seattle to Reno.
Of the eight parachute-hijack- ing attempts, only the ."Cooper" case is listed as unsolved. And
he might well have met his fate in the Southwest Washington wil- derness. At least, not any of the marked bills he received as ran- som have turned up.
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At least, not any of the marked bills he received as ran- som have turned up.
Thought is being given in Congress to prohibiting airlines from making ransont payments to hijackers. We doubt that any such' laio could be made work- able.
In any event, good law-en- forcement work such as that dis- played in the recent Utah and California hijacking escapades ought to have a stronger deter- rent effect than any additional legislation - that and stern deal- ing by the courts with all con- victed hijackers.
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The FBI said yesterday if is" consider- ing" the possibility that the hijacker who bailed out of an airliner with $500,000 late. Friday might be the same man as "D., B. Cooper" who. pulled a" similar escapade last November.
A massive search for the latest hijack- er-who parachuted from .a .United Air Lines 727 jetliner after leaving San Fran- cisco-was conducted in the Provo, Utah, area yesterday. But the search had all but ended last night after a local official re- ported a suspect has been identified but: not apprehended.
Meanwhile, the search was continuing. in the Woodland, Wash., area for the mys? terious Cooper, who parachuted Thanks- giving Eve from a Northwest Airlines 727 jetliner. with $200,000.
The FBI at Las Vegas said the possibil- ity that the United hijacker might be the. same man who used the D . B., Cooper name was "under consideration,
He said there, was "always a possibili. y" that the two might be the same, but" added that there was no evidence at this time to indicate the possibility was true.
y" that the two might be the same, but" added that there was no evidence at this time to indicate the possibility was true. [In Salt Lake City, FBI agent in-charge,
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FBI --- SEATTLERussell Calame said only, You'd have to look at the general data on each of them and reach your own conclusion."
I The Federal Aviation Ad- jemistration said, "How fould, we know?" and a United spokesman said he wouldn't dare speculate.
Cooper was described as -man in his 40s and the mited hijacker has been described as in his 20s.
The United hijacker was Identified on the plane's passenger: list only as "T. Johnson:"
FBI agents said that a search, by ' 200 persons around ., the Provo lake country had turned, up no trace of Johnson,
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, the Provo lake country had turned, up no trace of Johnson,
The FBI refused to com- ment on the possibility of mother search in another bcafion.
'We are investigating, learching and following up leads,"! sald Calame. He refused to deny or confirm report by Provo Police Chief Jesse. Evans that a who's sible suspect" had been identified, but not ap- prehended.
In Los Angeles, mean- while, the pilot of the Unit- d: Air Lines 727 said he believes the hijacker may e a pilot.
WI, would say he had an Excellent knowledge of parachutes and airplanes," said Capt. Gerry Hearn. He said the man sent Specific instructions to the cockpit. and` "the flight Han was similar to what "e ourselves prepared." The pilot also said the hi- acker may have merely discarded four. parachutes @rnished by the airline And escaped in'a chute car- Hled aboard in his luggage. Hearn sald) the airline's Parachutes were equipped with electronic tracing de- Aces ... DAS
Rumhors circulated that the hijacker was picked up By awaiting: helicopter, mit the FBI would not con- turm or deny the report
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" The hijacker " cool"and methodical as he passed his' commands on hand- written notes carried by stewardesses to the pilot, took over the plane on" a flight from Newark, N.J. to Los Angeles.
He allowed 85 passen- gers, a stewardess and four United officials to leave in San Francisco after receiv- ing $500,000 and four para- "chutes.' :Rait sif The November: hijacker" sinown as Cooper took over he Northwest airliner `shortly after it left Port-
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land en route to Seattle, He demanded $200,000 and four parachutes ... The passengers were al- lowed to leave the plane at : Seattle. The money " and parachutes were turfied over to the hijacker and he ordered the crew to fly to Reno, Nev.
`: When the plane arrived at Reno, the skyjacker,. the money and two parachutes were gone.
: "Authorities theorized the man parachuted over rug- ged southwestern Washing- ton country, and a search was carried out for nearly two weeks.
The search was resumed about two weeks ago;, called off at Easter and then reinstituted Friday.
over rug- ged southwestern Washing- ton country, and a search was carried out for nearly two weeks.
The search was resumed about two weeks ago;, called off at Easter and then reinstituted Friday. The FBI has had little comment on the search for Cooper, but an Army spokesman earlier sald he thought it might be the re -. sult of "negative reaction." .He explained . that be- cause none of the marked bills used as ransom . mon- ey had turned up, law :en- forcement authorities ap- parently . believe Cooper; may have been killed when 'he jumped from the Boeing 727 jetliner.
"The first attempted para- chute skyjacking. occurred -last Nov. 12. It ended in failure when a member of the crew of an Air Canada jet subdued a man who had demanded . money; and parachutes which were de- livered at the Great Falls, Mont., airport. The sky- jacker was struck on the head with a fire ax as he was strapping on his para- chute.
In all, seven persons have used the modus oper- andi in the quest for in- stant wealth. Only Cooper and Johnson, are still at large.
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Troops Search For Skyjacker WOODLAND, Cowlitz County ~ (AP) -" Army troops were back on 'the job yesterday helping the FBI search the area around Lake Merwin for.a. skyjacker who comman- deered a jetliner last Thanksgiving Eve. An Army spokesman said about 200 troops of the 3rd. Armored .Cavalry - Reri- ment were helping search for a hijacker who gave His name as D. B. Cooper
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WOODLAND, :Cowlitz County (AP) - Army, troops were back on the job- today, helping the Federal Bureau of Investigation search the area around Lake- Merwin for a skyjacker who, commandeered. -- a - jetliner last Thanksgiving Eve.
An Army. spokesman said about 200 troops of the 3rd: Armored. Cavalry. Regi- ment were helping search for a hijacker who gave his name as.D. B. Cooper, The skyjacker took over an airliner on a flight from Portland to Seattle. He is be- lieved to have" parachuted' over Southwest Washington. The troops on hand today made up "Essentially the same task force that .was, down the re": . when the search was resumed recent- ly, an Army spokesman at .Fort Lewis where the troops. care stationed; said
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Body Of Slain Girl Identified
VANCOUVER, Wash. (UPI) - A young woman whose body was found in a cistern at an old grist mill in Clark County last week was identified yesterday as Barbara Ann Derry, 18, of Goldendale. The girl had been stabbed to death and her body thrown into the 20- foot-high cistern. The body was found last Wednes- day by two women search- ing for old bottles.
No one has been arrested fin connection with the death, Clark County Sheriff Gene Gotton said yester- "day.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) -"D. B. Cooper, where are you?" says the latest T-shirt inscriptions sported by. youngsters. in Oregon as the. search for a parachuting hit jacker and his $200,000 ran- som continues without re: surtś.
"D. B. Cooper," or whoey. er he was, hijacked a North- west Airlines jetliner on Thanksgiving eve. He para- chuted into the black night and anonymity somewhere over the rugged mountains between Seattle, Wash., and. Reno, Nev.
The FBI said Thursday there was "nothing pertinent or particularly encouraging" in the hunt. He gave his name as. "D. B. Cooper" when he purchased a ticket at Portland the night of the hijacking.
Hc collected his fansom with a bomb threat as the plane flew to Seattle. Then he allowed the passengers to disembark and he disap- peated out the aircraft's back entrance as it flew to- ward Nevada.
Newspaper's in the Pacific Northwest have received let- ters purportedly signed by Cooper, but
Then he allowed the passengers to disembark and he disap- peated out the aircraft's back entrance as it flew to- ward Nevada.
Newspaper's in the Pacific Northwest have received let- ters purportedly signed by Cooper, but authorities would not comment on whether they are really from the hijacker.
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WOODLAND, Wash. (AP) - Authorities attempted Thursday to kientily the body of a young woman found in the area of an intensive search-for D. B. Coop- er. the man believed. to have parachuted from a hijacked jet- hner with $200,000 ransom four months ago.
The woman's body was found Wednesday afternoon by a woman who was looking for old bottles at the historic Grist Mill northeast of Woodland. Clark County Sheriff Eugene Cotten sald the body was found at the base of a silo inside the mill. An autopsy was performed Wednesday night and finger- prints taken to aid' identi- fichiton.
Clark County Sheriff Eugene Cotten sald the body was found at the base of a silo inside the mill. An autopsy was performed Wednesday night and finger- prints taken to aid' identi- fichiton. ~
Cotten would not speculate on : the cause of death. The body; was partially disrobed when discovered.
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The sheriff said he had no re- ports of missing persons whose description would match the body.
The Grist Mill is near where the body of Cynthia Glass, 25, a Portland grocery clerk was found several weeks ago. She had been abducted from the store where she worked and shot to death. Portland police have been working with author- ilies in Texas, Colorado and Utah where similar slayings of store clerks have taken place in the past six months.
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The FBI, assisted by Army troops and helicopters, has been conducting a renewed search for the hijacker.
The man known as Cooper took over a Portland Seattle Northwest Airlines jet last No. vember. After ordering it to land in Seattle he demanded $200,000 and four parachutes.
The man known as Cooper took over a Portland Seattle Northwest Airlines jet last No. vember. After ordering it to land in Seattle he demanded $200,000 and four parachutes. He ordered the plane to- fly to Reno, Nev. but when it arrived the man, money and two para- chutes were missing. Author- ities theorize he parachuted over southwest Washington.
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Authorities were attempt- ing today to identify the body of a young woman found yesterday in the Clark County area where an inten- sive search is being conduct- ed for the parachuting jet hi-
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Authorities were attempt- ing today to identify the body of a young woman found yesterday in the Clark County area where an inten- sive search is being conduct- ed for the parachuting jet hi- jacker known as D. B. Coop- er.
Initially the discovery of the body touched off rumors the hijacker had been found.
The Federal Bureau of In- vestigation, aided by Fort Lewis troops and Army heli- copters, have been searching the area for the body or traces of the hijacker of a Northwest Orient .Airlines 727 who escaped with $200,000 last November 24.
While 200 troops have been used to comb the surround- ing area, the woman's body was found by two women looking for old bottles at the historic Grist Mill northeast of Woodland. The body was at the bottom of a 20-foot shaft in the old mill.
Dr. Archie Hamilton, Clark County, coroner, spid the woman, in her mid or laje teens, died from a single stab wound in the heart. He ! estimated she had been dead
three weeks or longer. Dental casts were made to aid in identification.
Clark County Sheriff Eu- gene Cotten said he had no reports of missing persons whose description would match the body.
Clark County Sheriff Eu- gene Cotten said he had no reports of missing persons whose description would match the body.
The body was partially dis- robed when discovered, The girl had been wearing blue jeans and a sweatshirt.
The Grist Mill is near where the body of Cynthia Glass, 25, a Portland grocery clerk was found several weeks ago. She had been al - ducted from the store where she worked and shot death.
Discovery of the body at- tracted - the attention of the F. B. I. until it was deter- mined it was a woman.
The F. B. I. believes the hijacker who used the name D. B. Cooper parachuted from the commandeered jet somewhere near the Clark and Cowlitz County line, as the plane flew from Seattle to Reno. b
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By STEVE ERICKSON of The Oregonlan staff.
WOODLAND, Wash. - The partially decomposed body of a young woman was found under a historic grist mill nine 'miles northeast of Woodland Wed- nesday in an arca where widespread searching was being conducted for an airline hijacker.
Numerous Army, FBI and local po- lice personnel and a dozen newsmen flocked to the scene before the wom- an's body was recovered from the bot- tom of a rotted, wooden dry cistern.
Numerous Army, FBI and local po- lice personnel and a dozen newsmen flocked to the scene before the wom- an's body was recovered from the bot- tom of a rotted, wooden dry cistern. There was speculation that the body would be that of Dan Cooper, who par- achuted from a jetliner last Thanksgiv- ing eve with $200,000 in ransom money.
The body was discovered at midaf- ternoon Wednesday by Shirley Free, Carnation, Wash., and her sister, Mrs. Howard Pearson, Ridgefield, Wash., as the two were searching for old bottles. They spotted the body through rotted siding at the base of the 20- ffoot-high cistern; and called police :A soldier used a. chain saw to cut ja arge hole in the cistern, and the body was removed.
It was that of a woman apparently in er mid-20s, about 5 feet, 6 to 8 inches all, weighing some 130 pounds, with lark hair. She was wearing bell-bolt fom blue jeans, blue low-cut tennis. shoes and a sweater or sweatshirt ..
The pants had been pulled to her: knees and the sweater was . pulled around her neck and face. The body had blood around the mouth.
Eugene Cotton, Clark County sheriff, said the body appeared to have-been in the cistern "for quite some
Eugene Cotton, Clark County sheriff, said the body appeared to have-been in the cistern "for quite some time -- pos- . sibly since before January's high wa- · ter."
Cotton said he was "not aware of" any missing women in the area.
" The grist mill where the body vias found was built in 1876 alongside Celfar iCreek.
It is less than one mile as the crow flies from the spot where the body of Cynthia Glass, Portland grocery store : clerk who was kidnapped and slain last month, was found. The two locations, however, are 15 to 20 miles apart by road.
. Cotton said the woman could have. crawled through a flume and fallen into the cistern, or "at the lower level there is an opening where a body could,' have been placed in there."
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ARIEL, Cowlitz County - The FBI apparently has not changed its theory that "D. B. Cooper," the skydiving plane hijacker, bailed out of a low- flying jetliner somewhere over the area of Lake Merwin, about 16 miles east of I-5.
Cooper," the skydiving plane hijacker, bailed out of a low- flying jetliner somewhere over the area of Lake Merwin, about 16 miles east of I-5.
Aided by 200 troops and nine hell- copters from Ft. Lewis, the FBI.con -- , centrated its search efforts yesterday in the hills and valleys just above and a few miles below Merwin Dam
J. Earl Milnes: director of . the FBI's Seattle office, directed . the search, occasionally taking to the air
himself in an Army observation heli- copter.
Amiable, as usual, ond uninforma- tive, also as usual, Milnes would only say that "this is a continuation of the search started previously."
An Army spokesman at Merwin Park, where some of the troops were bivouacked, said the 3rd Armored Cavalry is participating in the search as an "adventure exercise."
"This is great training for the men in search and rescue procedures," said Capt. Charles Markham, in re- sponse to a question about the cost of the exercise.
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were equipped with maps? thal outlined the same area of Cowlitz and Clark conn- fios searched last. Novem -.. bEJ.
The maps indicate .an elongated diamond-shaped żone divided in the middle by the route the hijacked- Northwest Airlines 727. fol- lowed after leaving Seattle International Airport for Reno, Nev.
FBI. officials said last November that the "drop : zone" for the hijacker was . : determined from a reading of the plane's flight tapes.
If there were any. new. evidence to justify the" massive renewed seprch, authorities weren't saying. Bist there was little to infli- cite any break in the sen- sational caso ..
in the taverns and coan- Irg stores around fake Merwin the rumors were exchanged enthusiastically.
At Nick's Tavern, in Am- .boy, they talked about the kid who came into the Ar- jel Store with one of the 10,000 twenty-dollar bills paid to "Cooper" as ran -.. Som.
."Rumors. - only rumors," said the proprietress of the Ariel Store.
boy, they talked about the kid who came into the Ar- jel Store with one of the 10,000 twenty-dollar bills paid to "Cooper" as ran -.. Som.
."Rumors. - only rumors," said the proprietress of the Ariel Store.
Gulping down fried pota- toes at Nick's, a local shook his head and smiled.
"I wish I'd find the mon- ey," .. he said. "I'd give Cooper a decent burial."
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ARMY MAJOR DIRECTED TROOPS Had map showing search area
you'd run the other way." ¡Another rumor was that a man chopping wood just
below Merwin Dam had found one of the missing bills. And still another had
"one of the "Cooper" 20s turning up in Woodland.
Milnes denied that any trace of the money has been found.
Besides, he said, "You know we don't comment on that."
Individual soldiers in- volved in the search said they were looking for a bundle of money, a para- chute or a body.
Milnes would give no reason for the timing of the new search effort. He did say that when he visited the area three weeks ago there was still snow on the ground. That would make it especially difficult to spot a parachute.
From the conduct of the search, it appears that an- thorities believe "Cooper" did not survive his 10,000- foot leap from the rear exit of the jetliner.
Experienced sport chu- tists said, however, that it could be done.
From the conduct of the search, it appears that an- thorities believe "Cooper" did not survive his 10,000- foot leap from the rear exit of the jetliner.
Experienced sport chu- tists said, however, that it could be done. The 727, in fact, is considered the only commercial jetliner from which such a jump could be made.
Crew members of the plane, which was hijacked on a flight from Portland to Seattle, said Cooper seemed to know about the 727's capabilities.
He ordered the plane flown at 200 miles per hour and 10,000 feet - very slow and very low for a jet.
When the plane landed in Reno, "Cooper" was gone, as were two of four para- chutes supplied to him by authorities.
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The pilot of the plane said he detected a slight change in the craft's atti- tude as it flew over the area of Cowlitz and Clark counties on a standard Se- attle-to-Reno pattern.
And it is in that area that the search will contin- ue. Neither Milnes nor the Army would say for how long.
Somewhere in the beauti- ful Lewis River country, they hope to find the earth- ly remains of the man who called himself "D. B. Coop- er.
Somewhere in the beauti- ful Lewis River country, they hope to find the earth- ly remains of the man who called himself "D. B. Coop- er."
Scouring almost every inch of ground, they may find some trace of the dar- ing hijacker.
That is, unless some. treasure hunter stumblei across the money first and gave "D. B. Cooper" a "de- cent burial."
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Search continues for D. B. Cooper
Federal Bureau of Investi- gation , agents; aided' by Army troops from Fort Lew- is, continued their Southwest Washington search today for the parachuting hijacker known as D. B. Cooper.
It was the fifth day of a renewed search of the area around the boundary be- tween Clark and Cowlitz Counties,
If any new clues were turned up, the F.
It was the fifth day of a renewed search of the area around the boundary be- tween Clark and Cowlitz Counties,
If any new clues were turned up, the F. B. I. Wasn't saying. "There's nothing to talk about," said Paul Bibler, assistant special affent in charge of the
Seattle office of the F. B. I. About 200 Fort Lewis sol- diers, nine Army helicopters and F. B. I. agents led by J. Earl Milnes, head of the Seattle F. B. I. office, searched wooded hills and · valleys yesterday for the hi- jacker's body, the money, a parachute or any other trace of the fugitive.
The hijacker is believed to have bailed out over the area with $200,000 ransom money given him in Seattle November .24. after he com- mandeered a Northwest Ori- ent Airlines 727.
· Serial numbers of the 10,- ·000 $20 bills, were circulater til banks and business estabi
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FBI, Military Resume Search For Hijacker, $200,000
KELSO, Wash. (AP) - Atiny liner . between "Portland , and weeks in the area before moy- troops and FBIagents searched Seattle last -Nov, 24. ing.on. a. wooded area about. 20 miles (- He demanded $200,000 _and "This is a contimiation of the southeast' of here "Wednesday four parachutes as the plane search . started ". previously," while Army helicopters landed at Seattle, then ordered thrashed overhead as a search for an airplane hijacker, re: sumed. .
The FBI said the search was for D. B. Cooper, a name given by a man of about 40 who took over a Northwest Airlines jet-
it flown to Nevada, He and two of the chutes were fnissing.
Cooper, a name given by a man of about 40 who took over a Northwest Airlines jet-
it flown to Nevada, He and two of the chutes were fnissing. when the" plane landed again, and investigators
said J ... E. , Milnes, agent.Im charge of the Seattle office of the FBI. "We are being ass'st- ed by military people, and fat is all I can tell you at this time.'
theorized he may have jumped out over southwestern Washing- About 200 troops and nine ton. Searchers spent several helicopters of the Thing Ar-
morad Cavalry Regiment: from Ft. jlewis, near Tacoma, were based at Merivin Park on Lake Merwin, a reservoir on the Lewis River.
searching for a dead man. evergreens. and other eshanses, of logged-over land where alder and other deciduous trees are just beginning to regain new fo- liage .-
A spokesman for the Army said "nothing specific" was: be- hind resumption of the search.
"It's been four months,". he said, Sand not a single bill of the money has shown up any- where .. Apparently there is no evidence of the man in circula- tion, increasing the possibility he is still in the area.
Apparently there is no evidence of the man in circula- tion, increasing the possibility he is still in the area.
The Longview, Daily News said it learned that FBI agents were in the Cowlitz County as-
"There is tio new evidence " The troops fand federal sessor's. office in Kelso; two he said. "Time just went by, agents, with their helicopter weeks-, 'ago: determining the and it began to look more and help, are probing at rugged ownership of fand, surrounding more
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None of the ransom money given the parachuting sky- jacker known as D. B. Cooper has turned up, a Federal Bu- reau of Investigation official said yesterday.
The F. B. I. circulated a list of the serial numbers of the 10,000 $20 bills shortly af- ter the hijacking last No- vember 24. .
Paul Bibler, assistant spo- cial agent in charge of the Seattle office of the F. B. I., said none 'of the bills had surfaced. But he declined to
speculate that this has -in- creased the belief that the hijacker dkl not survive his jump.
The F. B. I. with the aid of about 200 Fort Lewis soldiers and nine Army helicopters is continuing a renewed ground search in Clark and Cowlitz Counties. Lake Merwin on the boundary line between thh two counties is the stag- ing arca. 1
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¿ n the man who hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 between Portland and Seattle. The hijacker de- manded and received $200,- 000 and four parachutes in Seattle, released the passen- gers and then ordered the crew to fly him to Reno. When the plane got there he was gone.
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FBI agents, aided by about 200 mem -. bers of the Army's 3rd Armored Cavalry and nine helicopters from Ft. Lewis, have resumed the search for the missing hi- jacker who parachuted from a Northwest Airlines jet last Nov.
Lewis, have resumed the search for the missing hi- jacker who parachuted from a Northwest Airlines jet last Nov. 24.
The search is concentrated in the Mer- win Dam area, about 20 miles southeast of Kelso, where the hijacker is believed to have bailed out during a sub-freezing flight from Seattle to Reno.
Residents in the search area said a pass was required to enter Merwin Park on Lake Merwin. The park is the stag- ing area for the "terrain search."
"A spokesman for the Army said "nothing specific" was behind resumption of the search.
"There is no new evidence." he said. "Time just went by, and it began to look more and more like they might be search- ing for a dead man."
The hijacker, who used the name "D. B. Cooper," and the $200.000 in ransom money he took with him, have disap- peared without a trace.
The FBI circulated a serial-number list of the 10,000 $20 bills to banks and busi- nesses throughout the country, but none of the money has ever turned up, according, to Paul Bibler, assistant special agent in charge of the Seattle FBI office.
The FBI circulated a serial-number list of the 10,000 $20 bills to banks and busi- nesses throughout the country, but none of the money has ever turned up, according, to Paul Bibler, assistant special agent in charge of the Seattle FBI office.
Bibler refused to speculate, however, as to whether the hijacker survived" nils night plunge from the Boeing 727.
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Search resumes for D. B. Cooper
The search for any trace of the parachuting airline hi- jacker known as D. B. Coop- er has been resumed by the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion in Southwest Washing- ton.
Army troops were assist- ing the F. B. I. yesterday in a search of land around Lake Merwin on the bounda- ry line between Cowlitz and Clark Counties.
J. Earl Milnes, Special agent in charge of the Seattle office of the F.
yesterday in a search of land around Lake Merwin on the bounda- ry line between Cowlitz and Clark Counties.
J. Earl Milnes, Special agent in charge of the Seattle office of the F. B. I., confirmed that the F. B. I. was continuing its investiga- tion and the Army was as- sisting in a terrain search.
He would not say how many troops were involved, where they were from, how long they had been there of how long they planned to stay
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C A! Portland televisiomi sta- tion reported an Army guard was turning away cars in the Lake Merwin area yester- day.
A man using the name D. B. Cooper hijacked a North- west. Orient Airlines 727 last November 24 on a flight from Portland to Seattle and demanded and received $200,000 in ransom money and four- poruchutes. He re-
leased. the passengers in Scattle and ordered the crew to fly him to Reno.
When the plane arrived in Reno the hijacker was gone. He was believed to have bailed out over Clark Count- ty. A search of the area af- ter the hijacking produced no trace of him.
F. B. I. officials have felt that the chances were mini- mal for the hijacker to sur-
vive the jump in near-zero!
officials have felt that the chances were mini- mal for the hijacker to sur-
vive the jump in near-zero! temperature and his body and the $200,000 could be in the surrounding hills.
Earlier this year, the F. B. ; I. said it planned to resume its search of the area as- soon as warm weather re- turned.
(Asked if they had 'found aby trace of the man .called. Cooper, an F. B. I. qfficial sąld:
. ""We'll fet.you" know:"!
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D. B. Cooper Revisited
For those empty-headed enough to glorify the Thanksgiving Eve skyjack- ing of a Northwest Orient Airlines plane by the infamous and probably pseu- donymous D. B. Cooper, ample reason for not doing so was provided on Christ-" mas Eve.
On another Northwest Orient flight, from Minneapolis to. Chicago, another skyjacker obviously attempted to pla- giarize D. B. Cooper's script.
The Christmas Eve bandit, armed with a pistol and claiming to carry sev- en sticks of dynamite, threatened to blow up a Boeing 707 unless he was given $300,000 and parachutes.
The Christmas Eve skyjacker, how- ever, lacked his predecessor's finesse. He got his money and his parachutes
but he was left without a pilot to fly him away from Chicago's O'Hare. Air- port, where he was apprehended.
The point is that D. B. Cooper's esca- pade clearly was the inspiration for the attempted robbery, which endangered the lives of the 34 persons aboard the jetliner.
Cooper's esca- pade clearly was the inspiration for the attempted robbery, which endangered the lives of the 34 persons aboard the jetliner. Lord knows how many more larcenous and or addle-brained individ- uals may be mulling over similar plots.
AS FOR THE notorious D.B. Cooper, who disappeared with $200,000 from a Boeing 727 between here and Reno, Nev., we predict he eventually will be captured, if his remains aren't impaled on an isolated pine tree somewhere in the western wilds, and his hero-woz- shipers made to see the folly of their admiration.
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Please Check Your $20 Bills, FBI Asks
BY DARYL LEMBKE Times Staff Writer
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SEATTLE -- If you've got any $20 bills left from Christmas shopping, the FBI wishes you'd lake a look at them.
There's an off chance they might provide a clue as to the whereabouts of $D B. Cooper," the fellow who literally jumped at 1lp opportunity to get away with $200,000.
That was the name a man gave when he pur-
chased a ticket in Portland on a Seattle-bound North- west-Orient airliner last Nov.
That was the name a man gave when he pur-
chased a ticket in Portland on a Seattle-bound North- west-Orient airliner last Nov. 24.
He then hijacked the airliner en route to Seattle by showing a stewardess wires which he said were connected to a bomb in his briefcase. He forced the airline to give him $200,- 000 in $20 bills and four parachutes when the plane landed in Seattle.
He then made the crew take off again and He ap- parently parachuted out of the 727 jet between Seattle and Reno, taking with him the loot.
Although he could have died in the jump, most people seem to think that - "Cooper" got away with. the money.
Some even hope that he did. He has become some -. thing of a folk hero. A Seattle firm is even selling "D.B. Cooper" 'T-shirts, showing a man floating to earth with the greenbacks.
But a robbery is still a robbery to the ITBI, which has the serial numbers of the stolen money and has published them in a 34- page booklet circulated among financial institu- tions in the West.
To have come from the 20-pound package of $20 bills which the hijacker
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D.B. Cooper-22434took, the bill must_carry both the correct number and the date of the design series.
Twenties in the hijack package are dated 1934,. 1950, 1963 A and 1969. The date of the series is found at the bottom of the bill and just to the right of the center.
The first letter with the serial number indicates in which of the 12 federal re- serve districts the bill is issued. The great majority of the bills taken by the hi- jacker came from the 12th Federal Reserve District, headquartered in San Francisco and lettered "L" on the stolen bills, but the other 11 districts lettered A through K, are also rep- resented.
hi- jacker came from the 12th Federal Reserve District, headquartered in San Francisco and lettered "L" on the stolen bills, but the other 11 districts lettered A through K, are also rep- resented. Numbers on the ligt are in sequence but skip from smaller to much ;larger digits.
Random numbers from the list are as follows.
AOO 235 872A, dated 1969; A14 808 132A, dated 1969; B14 242 873A, dated 1969; B34 401 451A, dated 1969; B56 573 862A, dated 1969; B66 486 809A, 1969; COO 297 0854, 1969; C10 521 331A, 163A; DO1 595 397A, 1969; D22 175 134A, 1969.
D43 150 2684, 1963A; EOO 560 629 1960; E13 397 308B 63A; E46 136 999A, 1969; E85 531 831A 63A; FOO 653 024A, 1969; F18 613.993A, 1969; GOO 061 029B, 1969; GO2 520 743, 1969; GI1 544 899B 63A; G29 690 309B 63A; G36 971 521B, 1963A; G44 492 946B, 1963A; G51 777 384A, 1969; G56 717 199B, 1963A; G67 396 010A, 1969; HOO 050 268A, 1969; H27 531 664A, 1963A.
IOO 039 231A, 1969; IOO 834 944A, 1969; 103 429
657A, 1969; 105 028 6864, 1969; IO9 430 628A, 1963A; JOO 031 331, 1963; JO2 357, 13C, 1963A; 306 927 138A, 1969; J10 008 744A, 1969; J15 062 146A, 1969; J26 190 173A, 1963A; 339 611 379A, 1963A; KOO 061 294, 1969; KO8 015 487A, 1969; K18
944A, 1969; 103 429
657A, 1969; 105 028 6864, 1969; IO9 430 628A, 1963A; JOO 031 331, 1963; JO2 357, 13C, 1963A; 306 927 138A, 1969; J10 008 744A, 1969; J15 062 146A, 1969; J26 190 173A, 1963A; 339 611 379A, 1963A; KOO 061 294, 1969; KO8 015 487A, 1969; K18 626 893A, 1963A.
100 000 004B 63A; L00 205 900, 1969; L00 625 540A, 1969; L00 982 844, 1969; L01. 404 303A, 1969; L01 599 092A, 1969; 101 684 869A, 1969; L01 744 834A, 1969; L02 275 724A, 1969; L03 329 195B, 1963A, L05.070 890A, 1969; L06 514 394, 1963A; L/07 483 214, 63A; L09 283 128A, 1969; L09 971 454A, 1969; L11 670 051A, 1969; L13 219 688A, 1969.
L14 707 268A, 1969; L16 088 643A, 1969; L17 875 196B, 1963A; L19 016 203A, 1969; L19 303 624A, 1969; L19 486 860A, 1969;
L19 590 456B 63A; L19 723 .933A, 1969: 119 855 988A, 1969; L19 960 040A, 1969.
L20 076 055A, 1969; L20 186 168A, 1969; L20 294 294A, 1969; L20 403 478A, 1969; L20 476 486A, 1969; L21 441 210A, 63A; L22 565 661A, 1969; L24 291 ; 737A, 1969; L25 786 727B, 1963A; L27 309 538B, 1963A; L28 422 704A, 1969; L29 389 835A, 1969; L29 638 047A, 1969; L29 861 672A, 1969; L30 031 359B, -1963A; L30 804 860A, 1969; L31 781 102A, 1969; L32 346 096A, 1969; L32 428 331A, 1969.
661A, 1969; L24 291 ; 737A, 1969; L25 786 727B, 1963A; L27 309 538B, 1963A; L28 422 704A, 1969; L29 389 835A, 1969; L29 638 047A, 1969; L29 861 672A, 1969; L30 031 359B, -1963A; L30 804 860A, 1969; L31 781 102A, 1969; L32 346 096A, 1969; L32 428 331A, 1969.
L32 509 792A; 1969; L32 586 072A, 1969; L32 666 806A, 1969; L32 729 889A, 1969; L32 815 350A, 1969; L32 892 490A, 1969.
L32 949 822A, 1969; L33 058 753A, 1969; L23 121 622A, 1969; L33 180 326A, 1969; L33 260 908A, 1969, L33 312 739A, 1969.
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$5,000 Award for Hijacker
The Secret Witness Program has established a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and convic- tion of "D. B. Cooper," the man who hijacked a North- west Airlines jetliner and bailed out somewhere between Seattle and Reno with $200,000.
In addition, persons helping solve these unsolved crimes are eligible for rewards to be determined, but each a minimum of $500; · June 19, 1969, murder near Seattle Center of Mrs. W Yun Chen Li.
· Jan. 7, 1971, slaying of William Buske, at his home at 2223 NE 137th St.
May 28, 1970, killing of Eileen Marie Condit at her home, 2020-42nd Ave.
7, 1971, slaying of William Buske, at his home at 2223 NE 137th St.
May 28, 1970, killing of Eileen Marie Condit at her home, 2020-42nd Ave. E.
Jan. 3, 1971, fatal shooting of Hewitt Fleming Jr. on the stairway between Alder Street and Yesler Way.
:@ July 27, 1970 (approximately), killing of Nancy Winslow somewhere in Whatcom County.
July 13, 1968, killing of Joanne Moses, 4, near Lynden, Whatcom County.
Anyone' having information on any of these crimes should call or write Secret Witness.
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Lists of Hijack Bills Distributed
Lists of serial numbers of the bills given to hi- jacker "D. B. Cooper" have been distributed to banks and other financial institutions in this area, the Fed- eral Bureau of
Cooper" have been distributed to banks and other financial institutions in this area, the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation has announced,
J. Eari Milnes, special agent in charge of the FBI office here,, said anyone who thinks he or she might have one of the 10,000 $20 bills that were given to "Cooper" the night of Nov. 24 when he hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines plane, may contact the FBI. office here.
The FBI's telephone number is MA. 2-0460.
"Cooper," who bailed out of the plane somewhere between. Seattle and Reno, is still at large.
Anyone who has information that might lead to bis arrest and conviction should contact Secret Wit- ness, P. O. Box 298, Seattle, Wash. 98111. A $5,000 reward has been posted.
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Knuckle-Headed Thinking 
As amazing as it may appear to 'some of us "square heads," the 'legend of D. B. Cooper, "Robin Hood of the airways," persists.
A man with the pseudonym D. B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Airlines jetliner between Portland and.
A man with the pseudonym D. B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Airlines jetliner between Portland and. Seattle Nov. 24, claimed $200,000 in ransom and presumably parachuted out of the airplane with this loot.
Since then, there have been "D. B. Cooper" sweatshirts; a high school class. (which shall remain nameless) has lauded the hijacker as a man who "is pretty darn smart, and we're proud of him!" The same class extolled him as being a cut above the "normal nut." And "the establishment" "has been chided by some as "getting its just desserts."
A recent development is a telephone call to. The Wenatchee World. "Don't put the young people down. If they're. bitter about the system and the establishment, it's because they have a reason. They've seen the double standard under which business operates. And they don't respect it." That, in part, was the gist of the remarks by an anonymous telephone caller, as reported on the editorial page of the newspaper. This came after the newspaper had editorially expressed shock because some people have orified the hijacker.
This came after the newspaper had editorially expressed shock because some people have orified the hijacker.
. The attack on business and industry (the establishment) is a childish reaction to a criminal act.
How many businesses can absorb a $200,000 loss without suffering the . effects?
Business and industry provide. the jobs and the taxes that keep this nation moving; that provide income; that provide schooling ..
An appropirate analogy for this type of knuckle-headed thinking would be for the children to laugh when their mother breaks a leg, or when their father loses his job.
. Parents are part of the establishment - which represents" control, discipline and security.
Perhaps it would be better if we could all return to nature and. live. off the land. We can't. "Our society has advanced too far to permit that kind of upheaval. Only. an idiot would argue otherwise.
And only a person . whose thinking has subsided to moronic levels would worship D. B. Cooper, or whatever his name is.
He is, or was, an outlaw, a criminal; a robber whose actions threatened the lives of many people.
Cooper, or whatever his name is.
He is, or was, an outlaw, a criminal; a robber whose actions threatened the lives of many people.
The act of air piracy will only lose its lure and allure when enough hijackings have been thwarted and those who attempt them are. punished severely.
Control of hijackings is basically a law enforcement problem - and part of our "new" society which has seen its criminal laws weakened by judicial loopholes and diluted concepts of punishment.
The time for a reversal of the trend Is here.
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Another 'Look-alike' Has, Problems With Police
LOS ANGELES - (AP) - A suburban West Covina ·man says he was detained by police three hours because he resembles the Northwest Orient Airlines plane hi- jacker who parachuted to freedom after receiving $200,000.
Jiri Fencl, 38, said Monday that he was picked up by police at Sacramento Airport four days after the Nov. 24 hijacking and questioned and photographed by officers.
"I went through it calmly because I knew I was innocent," Fencl said.
Authorities are still looking for a middle-aged man identified as "D. B. Cooper" who bailed out of a Boeing 727 jet last month between Seattle and Reno, Nev., after extorting the $200,000 with a bomb threat.
The FBI has reported no leads in the Case - and has not said whether other middle-aged men with parachut- ing experience have been questioned.
Fencl said when he was arrested he had $800 in his wallet to pay a moving van company for transporting his property from Rocklin, near Sacramento, to West Covina.
Fencl said when he was arrested he had $800 in his wallet to pay a moving van company for transporting his property from Rocklin, near Sacramento, to West Covina.
He said a card in his wallet indicated he had been an Irmy parachutist, and a check of his driver's license urther disclosed he once had lived in Seattle.
- Fencl is the new manager of the Pomona National Country Club.
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LOS ANGELES -- (UPI) - A letter purportedly written by fugitive hijacker "D. B. Cooper" claims he parachuted into the night with $200,000 to buy peace of mind because he has only 14 months to live, the Los Angeles Times said yester- day,
The
Cooper" claims he parachuted into the night with $200,000 to buy peace of mind because he has only 14 months to live, the Los Angeles Times said yester- day,
The letter-writer said he lived a life of hate and is not a hero.
A number of letters, supposedly from "Cooper," have been received by newspa- pers throughout the West in recent weeks. It is not known if any are genuinely from the man who hijacked a Northwest Orient 727 Nov. 24, claiming to have a bomb.
He collected the ransom and parachuted out the rear door with it between Seattle and Reno, Nev.
The letter was mailed to the Los Angeles Times from Seattle Saturday and has been turned over to the FBI, the paper said. It quoted the letter:
1"I didn't rob Northwest Orient because I thought it would be romantic, heroic or any of the other euphemisms that seem to attach themselves to situations of high risks.
"I am no modern-day Robinhood.
"Unfortunately (I) do . have only 14 months to live.
"My life has been one of hate, turmoil, hunger and more hate. This seemed to be the fastest and most profitable way to gain a few grains of peace of mind.
"My life has been one of hate, turmoil, hunger and more hate. This seemed to be the fastest and most profitable way to gain a few grains of peace of mind.
"I don't blame people for hating me for what I've done, nor do I blame anybody for wanting me to be caught and punished, though this can never happen."
The letter writer said he would never be caught because he left no fingerprints, wore a disguise,, and employed other un- specified means to cover his trail.
He was wearing a toupee and putty makeup at the time of the hijacking and would be impossible to recognize from the composite picture drawn up by FBI artists from the descriptions of witnesses, accord- ing to the letter.
. "I've come and gone on several airline flights and am not holed up in some ok- Scure backwoods town," the letter says.'
"Neither am I a psychopathic killer. As a matter of fact, I've never even receiveli a speeding ticket."
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LOS ANGELES - (AP) -- Å suburban West Covina man says he was detained by police for three hours be- cause he resembles the Northwest Orient Airlines plane hijacker who , para- chuted to freedom after re- ceiving $209,000.
Jiri Fencl, 38, said in an interview yesterday that he vías picked up by police at Sacramento Airport four days after the November 24 Hijacking in Seattle and questioned and photographed by officers.
Fencl said when he was arrested he had $800 in his wallet which was to pay a moving-van company for transporting his property from Rocklin, near Sacra- mento, to West Covina. He said a card in his wallet indi- cated he had been an Army parachutist, and a check of his driver's license further revealed he had once lived in Seattle .:
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Do You Know Skyjacker? Win $5,000
By WALTER A. EVANS
The out-of-the-ordinary crime often excites the pub- lic's imagination.
A cold-blooded criminal becomes a Robin Hood. A Jesse James - as vicious a nightrider as ever strapped on a gun-becomes a knight in somewhat tarnished ar- mor.
A man listed on the Northwest Airline's flight mani- fest as "D. B. Cooper" parachuted out into the dark night of Nov. 24 with a satchel containing $200,000 and . into a sort of instant-folk-hero legend.
."Cooper" was innovative, daring and- for a fleeting. moment-the little man battling the system.
No one was hurt, so many people gave their admira -. fion-grudging or not-to the "little man" who got away with it.
No one was hurt, so many people gave their admira -. fion-grudging or not-to the "little man" who got away with it. It was a classic sort. of crime. without pain.
But law enforcement officials fear that the next time -- and the next-and the next (these crimes have a way of being repeated) -- someone will be hurt seriously, , Or someone will be killed.
Then a hijacking like that pulled by ""Cooper" won't be funny. It won't be admirable.
It will be another in a long list of hijackings that risk too much-too many lives.
To assist in the capture of the hijacker, The Post-In- telligencer's Secret Witness program is offering a $5,000 reward for information that will lead to. "Cooper's." rest and conviction.
The reward is the first of a series to be offered in the Secret Witness program.
They are designed to assist 'the law-enforcement; agencies of the State of Washington in solving unsolved crimes, in bringing to justice criminals who should not be walking the streets.
As the trail of "Cooper" becomes colder, it becomes more and more important that some citizen come for- ward with information that will
As the trail of "Cooper" becomes colder, it becomes more and more important that some citizen come for- ward with information that will help stop a new form of planie hijacking in its embryonic stage.
Anyone who has information that could lead to the · arrest and conviction of the hijacker should contact The ; P-I Secret Witness Editor and follow the rules and guide- lines accompanying this article.
In the near future The P-I will announcerother-po- wards to be offered under the Secret Witness program.
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The Post-Intelligencer's Secret Witness program established a $5,000 reward for information lead- " lo the arrest and conviction of "D.
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The Post-Intelligencer's Secret Witness program established a $5,000 reward for information lead- " lo the arrest and conviction of "D. B. Cooper," the 'i cker who bailed out of a Northwest Airline jet . 24 with $200,000 in cash.
The reward will be paid by The P-I promptly after aijacker's conviction and the denial of a motion :r t new trial.
Anyone who has information as to the identity of si_ man known to law enforcement officials as "D. B. voper" (the name he used when he obtained his ticket. "wi the Northwest Airline jet), should call the Secret Witne » editor at 622-7878, or write the Secret Witness >lifor, P.O. Box 298, Seattle, Wash. 98111.
. The bizarre case got under way when the hijack- : who had boarded the plane in Portland, ap- ta pached a stewardess with a note demanding $200,000 and four parachutes.
He displayed a brief case that contained severa ed cylinders connected by pieces of wire.
While the plane flew from Portland to Seattle thwest officials were notified and they began fran- k ally collecting (and recording serial numbers) .
While the plane flew from Portland to Seattle thwest officials were notified and they began fran- k ally collecting (and recording serial numbers) .of h- 10,000-$20 bills from local financial sources.
They also obtained the parachutes from Seattle Skysports, Inc.
. The short flight from Seattle to Portland had tak- en a numbing 21% hours, but the other 35 passengers aboard the plane were unaware of the drama going on down on the ground - or in the aircraft.
At 5:40 p.m. everything was ready and the plane touched down at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport five minutes later .;
Within 20 minutes, the passengers had left; the money and parachutes were on the plane and the cab- in erew and stewardess Tina Mucklow were hostages.
Difficulties in fueling operations delayed the tako- off for a tense hour, but by 7:40 p.m. the jetliner was airborne and headed for Reno, Nev.
Somewhere in the dark night, with the plane flying at low speed, the cabin depressurized and the door open, "D. B. Cooper" parachuted into the black night.
There's the description given - a man in his mid-40's, 6'1" tall, 175 pounds, wearing a dark busi- ness suit
There's the description given - a man in his mid-40's, 6'1" tall, 175 pounds, wearing a dark busi- ness suit and dark glasses.
The description is all that remains. "D. B. Coop- "er" disappeared into the darkness on Nov. 24 and.
despite an intensive search in Clark County, he never has turned up.
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Rules for participating in the Secret Witness pro- gram accompany this article.
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By DON HANNULA .
Put a pair of dark glasses on Seattle's Bill Whitney and you've got a remarkable resemblance'to a com- posite sketch of the Thanksgiving Eve jet hijacker who parachuted away with $200,000 ransom.
Add the fact that Whitney is a co- holder of the Northwest sky-jumping altitude record at 30,000 feet and the result is suspicion.
That suspicion by Whitney's sky- diving acquaintances led to his being questioned for 51/2 hours Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The look-alike problem has both- ered Whitney, 3828 Whitman Ave. N., who earns his living in the sound- equipment business.
"It's nice to be remembered, but not this way," Whitney said. "It would be nice to look like a movie star or something, but not a guy who pulled a job."
Whitney said: "I know a lot of jumpers up and down the coast. I understand a lot of them looked at that sketch and thought of me. The whole point is I didn't do it and I .
I understand a lot of them looked at that sketch and thought of me. The whole point is I didn't do it and I . don't need that kind of reputation."
. WHILE WITNEY'S facial features resembled the F. B. J. composite sketch drawn from descriptions by witnesses, his height, weight, age and complexion didn't match those given . for the hijacker.
Whitney is 5-feet-8 and about 140 pounds. Witnesses said the hijacker was 6 feet and 175 pounds. They said the hijacker had an olive complexion. Whitney is fair-skinned. The hijacker was described as middle-aged - be -. tween 40 and 50. Whitney is 33 with prematurely receding hair.
After the hijacker showed a stew- ardess what he said was a bomb, commandeered the Northwest Orient Airlines 727 November 24, and rer. leased the passengers in Seattle for $200,000 and four parachutes, he bailed out somewhere between Clark County and Reno, Nev.
Immediately the F. B. I. began checking out anyone with parachut- ing experience.
Whitney, who has, made some 300 jumps since taking up the sport in 1965, said he first heard that he was being sought for questioning
Whitney, who has, made some 300 jumps since taking up the sport in 1965, said he first heard that he was being sought for questioning Thurs- day.'
He said: "I heard the F. B. I. was looking for me and I said: 'Oh, broth- er.' I figured, rather than have them pick me up on the street or some- where, I'd call them." When he did, they said, yes, the F. B. I. did want to talk to him. .
"If I had been guilty, I'd be in jail right now," Whitney said.
Whitney said a San Francisco newspaper reporter also flew to Seattle to interview him after a San Francisco sky jumper told the report- ers he was convinced Whitney was the skyjacker.
WHITNEY SAID his problems were compounded by having few peo- ple to verify where he was the Wednesday. of the hijacking. The; bachelor said he drove to Bellingham about 7:30 a. m. and spent some time with this partner in- the sound-equip- ment business, returning to the Northeast Scattle home of his partner" about noon. He said his partner re- turned about 6:30 or 7. p. m. and saw! him at the home. He said he couldn't recall anyone else seeing him.
He said his partner re- turned about 6:30 or 7. p. m. and saw! him at the home. He said he couldn't recall anyone else seeing him. Whit- ney said he spent Thanksgiving Day at his parent's home in Tacoma.
"Another thing, I wear dark glass- es a lot," Whitney said. The skyjack- er was wearing dark glasses.
Whitney is convinced the skyjacker got away. He does not consider what' the skyjacker was reported to have, done as difficult. "I could have done; it, yes, but I didn't," Whitney said.
But. Whitney also believes the hi? jacker will be caught eventually -. that he won't be able to resist telling some one some day, Whitney said! "If they ever make a movie of this, I'd be happy to play his-part."
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By DARYL LEMBKE Los Angeles Times WOODLAND, Cowlitz County -' A light plane swept in out of the stormy night and circled over a crude airstrip in the hills 10 miles east of here.
The weather was rainy and windy-no fit night for a joy-riding pilot to be landing on the bumpy, unlighted hill- top airstrip near a wooded ravine.
. Yet some nearby residents say that a small plane did land at a little after 8 p. m. November 24,' at the same time and in the same'area where a hijacker is believed to have parachuted from an airliner with $200,000 in $20 bills.
-THE ACCOUNTS"of. the strange plane could explain how the hijacker escaped a three - day manhunt, or at least how he had planned to escape if the' survived the
the strange plane could explain how the hijacker escaped a three - day manhunt, or at least how he had planned to escape if the' survived the parachute jump.
. He could have had an ac- complice who flew in and waited for him, or there could have been a third par- ty in a car who picked him up and brought him to the plane.
Adding credence to this theory is the fact that some- one in a car apparently ren- dezvoused with a pilot at an- other, nearby airstrip the night . before the hijacking and went for what could
have been a pre-hijack scouting flight in equally bad weather.
Those who say they saw the light plane on the night of the hijacking have been questioned several times by F. B .. I agents, who also combed the wooded ravine near the airstrip during the manhunt last weekend. (The F. B. I. in Seattle refused comment today on the signif- icance of the reports about the small plane. Sheriff's of- ficers referred all inquiries to the F. B. I.)
THE AIRSTRIP is on property owned by the Mc- Clellan family. Mr and Mrs. Robert M. Mcclellan, Jr.
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THE AIRSTRIP is on property owned by the Mc- Clellan family. Mr and Mrs. Robert M. Mcclellan, Jr., live in a new house at the south end of the airstrip. McClennan formerly owned a plane but sold it. His par- ents live in an older house a little farther from the land- ing field.
A flight recorder in the commandeered' Northwest Orient 727 indicated that the hijacker opened the rear door of the plane at 8:13 p. m. Because of a slight lurch of the plane, it was deduced that he made the jump from the lowered rear steps two or three minutes later.
Mr. and Mrs. Emil Neiger, who live just down the road from- the 'MeClellan airstrip,. said a plane had been cir- cling the landing area most' of the afternoon.
"We were gone for a while and came home about 8 o'clock," said Mrs. Neiger. "I was washing the dishes when both of us saw this. plane. swoop down low. We thought it was going to land and it put its landing lights on. Then we thought it took off again."
. TWO MILES DOWN. the road to the west, Mrs.
We thought it was going to land and it put its landing lights on. Then we thought it took off again."
. TWO MILES DOWN. the road to the west, Mrs. Frank Distefano saw something that made an impression on her.
. "I was home alone when I saw a plane out the back window about 8:30," said Mrs. Distefano. "It flew over twice, very low, and it had a big red light on the tail. It seemed bigger than a light plane. It was raining and the wind was blowing. I thought, 'what's he doing out here this time of night?' It was weird to me because we don't see many planes at night .here."
Mrs. Melvin Andersen, who resides just across the road from the north end of the Mcclellan landing strip
said she heard a plane land . there and saw lights indicat- ing that it was', turning around.
"He was parked an hour or so and then it left;". she said.
"I doubt if it was connect- ed to the hijacker. The Me- Clellans probably had a visf-, for. They have friends who' fly." -
. But the Mcclellans insist they had no visitor drop in: that night.
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Like Robin Hood, the mysterious skydiving hi- jacker who bailed out of a Northwest Airlines jet south of Seattle with a $200,000 ransom : Wednesday night appears to have captured the imagination of the man in the street.
While the search for the man continued in south western Washington, most of those responding to ques. tions said they hoped the daring hijacker would es- cape.
· A professor of sociology at the University of Wash- ington, Dr.
tions said they hoped the daring hijacker would es- cape.
· A professor of sociology at the University of Wash- ington, Dr. Otto Larsen, said the hijacker had won the public's admiration through "an awesome feat in the battle of man against the machine -- one individ- ual overcoming, for the time being anyway, technol- ogy, the corporation, the es- tablishment, the system.
"We all like adventure stories," said Larsen. "That hijacker took the greatest risk. He showed real heroic features - mystery; drama, romanticism, a high degree of skill and all the necessi- ties for the perfect crime."
"You've got to admit, he was clever," said Seattle taxicab driver Gordon Em- bree. "The way I see it, anybody smart enough to take $200,000 just like that ought to make a clean get- away. I'm not saying he's right, understand, but he plain had guts.
"Technically.of course, he should be caught," of- fered Chuck Miller, a sailor at Sand Point Naval Air Station in Seattle. "But in a way, I'm glad he got away. I can't help thinking: If I ; were going to do something like that, I wish I could do it as well as he did.
I can't help thinking: If I ; were going to do something like that, I wish I could do it as well as he did."
Rose Ann Coffey of Wood- Tand, from where the hi- jacker search is being con- ducted by the FBI, said most people there had a "Robin Hood attitude."
"He didn't hurt anybody," she said of the hijacker. "And if he took the trouble to plan this thing out so thoroughly well, good luck to him. Most of the people around here kind of hope he makes it."
Larsen said part of the reason for the hijacker's popularity probably is "the great contrast to the origi- nal skyjackers. This man was neither political or neu- rotic. His motive was sim- ply $200,000 and people can understand that much bet- ter,
"So. he comes off as a kind of a curious Robin Hood," Larsen said,
Public opinion was not. unanimous on the matter, however. A Seattle attorney, who declined to give his name, put it this way:
"The hijackings -- all of them. - represent a break- down in the nation's en- forcement system. I believe that hijacker should be hunted domrand killed.
- represent a break- down in the nation's en- forcement system. I believe that hijacker should be hunted domrand killed."
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WOODLAND, Cowlitz County - (UPI) - Three women said yesterday they saw a light plane land and. take off at a small airstrip the night a hijacker para- chuted from a jetliner after receiving $200,000 in ransom.
The FBI declined to comment on the reports regard- Ing the Thanksgiving Eye aerial extortion,
None of the residents near the darkened McClellan airstrip said they saw the plane close enough on the dark, rainy and gusty night to give a detailed descrip- tion.
Mrs. Emil Neiger, who lives close to the airstrip, said she got a good look at the low-flying aircraft but added, "All planes look
Emil Neiger, who lives close to the airstrip, said she got a good look at the low-flying aircraft but added, "All planes look alike to me."
Mrs. Melvin Anderson, who lives across the road from the end of the strip, said she saw the light of the plane as it came in for a landing, sitting on the field and taking off. She said she was not sure how long the plane was down.
"I don't know whether it was over there an hour or how long," she said. "I didn't time it. I couldn't see the plane itself."
Mrs. Frank Distefano reported she was returningi home when she saw the plane flying low in the storm.
"I thought to myself, what's that nut doing up in the' pir on a night like this," she said. "It was a small plane but the engine sounded louder than a small plane's. I remember a large red light on the tail."
Mrs. Distefano said she believes she saw the same
plane on the previous night circling a spot to the east near St. Helens, Wash.
She said the plane on the night of the hijacking was in the area about 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., flew north, circled and came back.
She said the plane on the night of the hijacking was in the area about 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., flew north, circled and came back. She said she does not know where it wenty after that since it was raining and she was not watching anymore.
The Federal Aviation Administration's flight control center in Auburn, Wash., said there was no indication on radar of a light plane near the hijacked Boeing 727 in the southwest Washington area.
"If he was flying too low," a controller said, "we wouldn't see it."
The hijacker paid cash to buy a ticket at the North- west Airlines office at the Portland International Airport and then about a half hour later boarded the 727. He threatened the crew with a purported bomb, and after obtaining $200,000 from the airline on the 727's arrival at Seattle-Tacoma Airport vanished from the craft by para- chuting out a back door on a flight to Reno, Nev.
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The FBI has not ruled out the possibility of an ac- complice in the case, but said it had no evidence to substantiate that there had been more than one person involved in the escapade.
The FBI conducted a search in the area around View, and Woodland, earlier on the basis of plane flight infor- mation that the hijacker may have jumped near View. The time of the jump was believed to have been 8:13 p.m. on' Nov. 24.
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Airlines Flight 305,
Portland to Seattle
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Does Anyone Know. Identity of" Vanished Hijacker?
The trailof the skydiving airline hijacker continued to cool yesterday as the FBI indicated it was no closer to discovering the man's iden- tity than it was on Nov.
The trailof the skydiving airline hijacker continued to cool yesterday as the FBI indicated it was no closer to discovering the man's iden- tity than it was on Nov. 24, when he executed the spec- tacular crime.
"We're getting calls from all over," an FBI source
said. "People think the guy might be their missing cousin, husband, uncle, boy friend or whatever."
But the FBI said so far none of these tips has pro- "duced a viable suspect. ₺
Newspapers throughout the western United States and Canada have been re- ceiving a rash of letters "
signed by "D. B. Cooper," the name used by the man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 and ransomed ts passegers for $200,000.
Authorities did not shy whether they believed the Jetters were really from the hijacker.
While the FBI wouldn't admit it, the agency has
been contacting parachu- tists throughout the North- west who might, however Dagucly, bear a physical re- semblance to the 6-fodt, 170-pound, swarthy-coph- plexioned hijacker.
One man in the Portland area, prominent in para- chuting circles there, was questioned by agents when
it was learned he had a pre- vious burglary conviction.
One man in the Portland area, prominent in para- chuting circles there, was questioned by agents when
it was learned he had a pre- vious burglary conviction. He was cleared as a sus- pect.
The Post-Intelligencer Idarned, too, that a Seattle .
resident who was said to re- semble the hijacker had been questioned by the FBI here. The man had been ac- tive in parachuting a few
years ago and local chutists said he had performed at least one high altitude jump.
The FBI declined to verij 1 fy whether it had talked with the man or if he had been cleared as a suspect.
Meanwhile, a Portland novelty firm was cashing in on what appears to be a
kind of "D. B. Cooper" cult- ism arising from the frank admiration expressed by much of the public for the flaring air pirate. The firm is selling T- shirts which bear the in- scription: "D. B. Cooper, where are you?" The FBI wishes it knew.
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Date: 12/3/71 Edition: Final
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Authenticity Af letter doubted
VANCOUVER, B. C. - (AP) - Police, said today .. ; they doubt the authenticity ·of a letter received by the Vancouver Province suppos- edly from the man who para- chuted from a hijacked air- plane and escaped with $200,000 in ransom.
The letter said a composite drawing of the hijacker's , face, circulated throughout Canada and the Unitedl States, "does not represent the truth."
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Fleeing motorist with cash not skyjacker, police report
By DON HANNULA
Skagit County Sheriff John Boynton said today officials are convinced there is no connection between the Thanksgiving Eve skyjacker and a man arrested near Mount Vernon last night with a substantial amount of mon- ėy.
Unofficial reports that the man was carrying $435,000 in foreign currency were erro- neous,. State Patrol officials said. The State Patrol was the source of that informa- tion,
They said they still had not determined the value of the foreign money but the to- tal "is more like a few thou- sand dollars."
THE CONFUSION stemmed from 117 Brazilian 10.000 - Cruzeiro notes the man was carrying.
The State Patrol was the source of that informa- tion,
They said they still had not determined the value of the foreign money but the to- tal "is more like a few thou- sand dollars."
THE CONFUSION stemmed from 117 Brazilian 10.000 - Cruzeiro notes the man was carrying. He told them they were old Cruzei- · ros, which made the 10,000 notes worth $1.40 each - or. a total of $163.80.
If the 10.000-Cruzeiro rotes had been new, they would be worth $1.400. That would minke the total $163,800.
That possibility immedi. ately gave rise to suspicions
the man might be connected with the skyjacking in which $200,000 ransom ,was paid.
SKAGIT COUNTY sheriff's officials, after conferring with a Federal Bureau of In- vestigation agent in the area, said it was established the man was not the sky- jacker, who parachuted from the hijacked Northwest Ori- ent Airlines jet between Seattle and Reno November 24.
The State Patrol arrested the man, Hendrikus P. Kas- bergen, 42, of Fresno, Calif., about 10 miles north of Mount Vernon on Interstate 5 last night.
State Patrol officials said troopers chased him at , speeds up to 130 miles an hour from Marysville after a trooper stopped.
State Patrol officials said troopers chased him at , speeds up to 130 miles an hour from Marysville after a trooper stopped. him for. speeding. Officials said he drove off while a trooper was writing him a ticket.
The State Patrol said both tires blew out and the man drove on the rims at speeds close to 90 miles an hour; be- fore they caught fire.
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KASBERGEN is in custo- dy, charged with reckless
driving and failing to stop for an emergency vehcile. E
İ When taken into custody, he had $1,300 in Americaa money. $500 in Canadian and an assortment of Brazilian, Chilean, Peruvian, Mexican (! and - Australian money.
Officials said the Dutch man spoke with a heavy ac- cent and was difficult to un- derstand. This made it diffi- cult to determine the value of the foreign currency, they said.
They said the man gave ro reason for fleeing. 6
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WOODLAND, Cowlitz County - Teams of FBI agents, hampered by rain and snow, searched through muddy foothills without suc- cess yesterday for clues to a middle-aged hijacker who vanished after parachuting from an airliner with- $200,000 ransom.
With planes grounded by
the cloudy weather, the so- far fruitless.four-day search was left up to crews on the ground. With darkness clos- ing in and no break in the weather in sight, they gave up the search for the night.
"The whole area has been socked in consistently," said FBI special agent Ju- lius Mattson. "It is a little
worrisome, but we are stuck with it.'
The only tidbit of new in-' formation - a motorist's sighting of a possible para- chute hanging from a tree 60 miles north of here -- proved to be false when au- thorities checked
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The only tidbit of new in-' formation - a motorist's sighting of a possible para- chute hanging from a tree 60 miles north of here -- proved to be false when au- thorities checked it out.
Acting on computerized data from the hijacked plane's in-flight recorder
and the "hunch" of the agent in charge of the search, the FBI has concen- trated its hunt for four days in a 15 square-mile patch of heavily wooded country. They've found nothing.
Tom Manning, FBI agent in charge of the search, has insisted that the skyjacker parachuted Wednesday night from a Northwest Air-
lines 727 "into a" three-by- five-mile strip of timbered Cascade Mountain foothills about 35 miles north of Portland, Ore. He said the jumper, who was wearing street shoes, could have suf- fered a broken leg.
Using a "bomb," the hi- jacker forced the plane from. Portland to land at Se- attle, where he was given the ransom in $20 bills in a white canvas bag and four sporting parachutes. He or- dered the plane to fly to Mexico but was not aboard when it .landed at Reno, Nev., for refueling.
"We've taken radar re- ports, it's all been compu- terized and we feel he's in this area," Manning said from his
"We've taken radar re- ports, it's all been compu- terized and we feel he's in this area," Manning said from his Woodland head- quarters. The estimate was based on the plane's in- flight recorder, which showed when the hijacker lowered the 727's rear steps and a "slight change in atti- tude" three minutes later, indicating he had jumped.
The FBI issued a compos- ite drawing of the hijacker Saturday, describing him as a-"soft speaker, polite, with a conventional business style hairdo."
The skyjacker, who
boarded the piante under the name D. B. Cooper, was de- scribed as a "white with an olive complexion," 6-foot-1, 170-175 pounds, in his mid- 40s, with black hair, and brown eyes. He wore brown
tint glasses in black plastic frames, a dark suit or ' sports coat' and slacks, white shirt with narrow , black tie, black trench coat and black oxford shoes. The FBI announced plans
to search the airliner's en- tife route from Seattle te Reno as soon as the weather clears. But rain and snow yellterday covered the route over Portland and Medford, Ore.
The FBI announced plans
to search the airliner's en- tife route from Seattle te Reno as soon as the weather clears. But rain and snow yellterday covered the route over Portland and Medford, Ore., and Red Bluff, Calif,
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Date: 11/29/71 Edition: Final
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The whereabouts of "D. B. Cooper," the parachuting hi- jacker, remained an intrigu- ing mystery today.
Some theories advanced by law-enforcement officers: . He may be in Mexico counting the $200,000 ransom he obtained from Northwest Orient Airlines Wednesday evening at the Seattle-Taco- 'ma Airport.
" He may be hung up in a Douglas fir near Woodland, Cowlitz County.
He may be hiding in a cab- in after landing successfully by parachute.
" He may be hung up in a Douglas fir near Woodland, Cowlitz County.
He may be hiding in a cab- in after landing successfully by parachute.
His broken body may be somewhere along the hi- jlicked 727's flight path be- dause his parachute did not open.
FOUL WEATHER stopped search efforts in Southwest- ern Washington over the weekend. This morning it was raining and overcast again in the area.'
"When I came to work this morning, I couldn't see the tops of the hills," said Joe May, Woodland's police chief, who has been working with Federal Bureal of In- vestigation agents : on the ground-air search.\ \
The hijacker showed a stewardess a note saying he had a bomb on a flight from Portland to Seattle. He de- manded, and received, $200,000 after permitting 36 passengers to leave the jet- liner at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport.
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He also received four par- achutes. A computer analy- sis of the jet's flight recor- der showed variations in the pitch and attitude of the plane as it passed over the Woodland region, indicating he may have left the plane.
A computer analy- sis of the jet's flight recor- der showed variations in the pitch and attitude of the plane as it passed over the Woodland region, indicating he may have left the plane." then by the rear door.
Woodland-area residents are skeptical that the search will yield anything.
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"Right outside town here is an old cemetery so grown `up that the city can't even find it," said Earl Harshber- ger, a Woodland resident.
THE MASSIVE search is in an area, of steep ridges and deep ravines, heavy sec -. ond-growth Douglas fir and dense underbrush.
The search has been marked by an almost pic's nic-like atmosphere as curi- osity seekers flooded the , area over the - long holiday weekend, many hoping to find the $200,000.
: . "We'll probably see a few more treasure hunters com- ing around today," May said.
Longtime residents of the area are reminded of a simi- . lar manhunt back in the 1920s when a group of pro- spectors on the slopes of Mount St. Helens told of being attacked by the leg- endary "Mount St. Helens "Apeman." A large number of deputies, hunters and newspaper reporters went out on an unsuccessful search.
Helens "Apeman." A large number of deputies, hunters and newspaper reporters went out on an unsuccessful search.
So far, "D. B. Cooper" is equally elusive
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Date: 11/29/71 Edition: Final
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F. B. I. describes hijacker
The Federal Bureau of In- vestigation today gave these details in describing the hi- jacker of the 727 Thanksgiv- ing Eve.
Age: mid-40s. Height: 6 foot 10 inches to 6 feet.
Weight: 170 to 180 pounds. Build: Average to . well- built.
Complexion: Olive, Latin appearance, medium smooth.
Hair: Dark , brown or black, parted on left, combed back. Sideburns to ow ear level.
Eyes: Possibly brown, During the latter part of the .
Hair: Dark , brown or black, parted on left, combed back. Sideburns to ow ear level.
Eyes: Possibly brown, During the latter part of the . gently. No particular accent.
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' Voice: Low, spoke intelli-
Possibly from the Midwest. Characteristic: Heavy smoker of Raleigh filter-tip cigarets.
Apparel: Black or brown suit; white shirt; narrow black tie; black raintype overcoat or dark topcoat; dark briefcase or attache case; brown shoes; carried paper bag 4 by 12 by 14 inch- es.
J. Earl Melnes, special agent in charge of the F. B. I. office here, asked that). persons who have any infor- mation which might identify the suspect to call the F. B."> I.
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Hijacker of jetliner
steals public fancy here
By ROSS ANDERSON
Despite the concern about high crime rates and calls for hard-line law-and-order stands, many Seattleites yes- terday revealed a subtle ad- miration. for Wednesday's mysterious airline hijacker.
Nobody denied the reality of the crime, nor the poten- tial for tragedy which exist- ed. But, perhaps since no- body was hurt, the hijacker seemed to have evoked for himself some of the legends and memories of past out- ławs.
"It's kind of a Robin Hood thing," said Larry Kellas, an assistant manager in a downtown department store. Asked how he reacted to the crime, he added: "He'll probably be caught, and he should be. But it was still. pretty dramatic and spectac- ular."
The crime may have been unique, but the response was not. Certain outlaws from Robin Hood to Britain's "Great Train Robbers" have inadvertently captured the imagination of the common man.
Certain outlaws from Robin Hood to Britain's "Great Train Robbers" have inadvertently captured the imagination of the common man.
"We all like adventure sto- ries," noted Dr. Otto Larsen, professor of sociology at the University of Wahington. "That hijacker took the greatest ultimate risk. He showed real heroic features - mystery, drama, romanti-
cism, a high degree of skill and all the necessities for the perfect crime."
: "He was either very tal- ented or very crazy - or both," said Mrs, Helen M. McNeely when asked for her reaction. "A native of Illi- nois, she recalled the infa- mous gangster of the 1930s, John Dillinger,
"But Dillinger had a real mean streak," she noted. "This man (the hijacker) fortunately didn't hurt any- body and somehow that seems to make a differ- ence."
Some other reactions drawn from downtown shop- pers yesterday included:
Pvt. David Ricardo, mili- tary on leave from New Jer- sey: "I think he'll get away .. with it. Anyway, I hope he isn't caught. If I were him I'd take off for South Ameri- ca.
David Ricardo, mili- tary on leave from New Jer- sey: "I think he'll get away .. with it. Anyway, I hope he isn't caught. If I were him I'd take off for South Ameri- ca. It all seems like a fanta- sy."
Gordon Embree, taxicab driver: "You've got to ad- mit, he was clever. The way I see it, anybody smart enough to take $200,000 just like that ought to make a clean getaway. I'm not say- ing he's right, understand, but he plain had guts."
Charldene Ashley, student: "It was kind of ingenious. He's done pretty well so far and I think it's all right if he gets away with "
Tom Pettinger, Seattle
morticiaff: "It was such' a smooth operation that I think he'll pull it off. But he should be caught; somebody has to pay."
Chuck Miller, a sailor at Sand Point: 'Technically, of course, he should be caught. But in'a, way, I'm glad he
got away. I can't help think- ing: If I were going to do something like that, I wish I could do it as well as he did."
Dean Weaver, Seattle: "I hope he's caught in about 25 years, just so we can find "out what happened to him."
Salvador - Tirazona, Seattle: "He pulled a fast one on the plane company.
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Dean Weaver, Seattle: "I hope he's caught in about 25 years, just so we can find "out what happened to him."
Salvador - Tirazona, Seattle: "He pulled a fast one on the plane company. It was a slick move because it was the first time anybody has gotten away with some- thing like that - escaping that is."
Nearly all those questioned
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arwere concerned about the hazards presented to passen- gers and crew and. to the · possibility of encouraging fu- ture similar hijackings. But all agreed on one point: The hijacking has raised an un- 'dercurrent of admiration for "the manner in which it was committed.
"Part of the reason is : probably the great contrast · to the original skyjackers," Professor Larsen speculated.
"Part of the reason is : probably the great contrast · to the original skyjackers," Professor Larsen speculated.
"This man was neither polit- ical nor neurotic. His motive was simply $200,000 and peo- ple can understand that much better.
"His was an awesome feat in the battle of man against the machine - one individu- al overcoming, for the time being anyway, technology,
the corporation, the estab- lishment, the system."
Larsen compared the inci- dent to the 19th Century stagecoach robberies, widely romanticized in Eastern magazines. Black Bart and the stagecoach outlaws were after money, not to make a political statement.
. "So he comes off as a kind of curious Robin Hood, "Lar- sen said, "taking from the rich - or at least the big and complex. It doesn't mat- ter whether he gives, to the poor or not. . .
"He had to have a broad range of skills to manipulate people, to choose the right time and place, to survive. But even if they find, him somewhere in the bush with his skull crashed, it will still
be dramatis.
But even if they find, him somewhere in the bush with his skull crashed, it will still
be dramatis. and mysteri- ous.".
There were 'a few, ques- tioned by The Times, who were not carried away by the romantic aspects of the crime. They saw it only as a crime. .
A Seattle attorney, who declined to give his name: "The hijackings-all of them -represent a breakdown in the, nation's enforcement system. I believe that hijack- er should be hunted down and killed."
A uniformed member of the Marine Corps Reserve, alsd . anonymous: "People's Ilves were Involved, and I can't see making a hero out of him. Ihope he is caught.
'He showed . . . all the necessities for the per- fect crime."
-- Dr. Offo Larsen
'I'm not saying he's right . . . but he : plain had guts.'
-Gordon Embree
I hope he isn't caught.
David Ricardo
I think it's all right if he gets away with it.' -Charldene Ashley
Toth Pottinger
Helen M. McNeely.
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The search for a white parachute and the man who wore it is scheduled to re- sume. in Clark and Cowlitz Counties today after three days of trying to track down the Thanksgiving Eve jet hi- jacker.
Hopes were kindled briefly yesterday, then flickered, when a white object seen from the air was checked and found to be a plastic canopy left by fishermen or loggers.
Fog closed in and cut off the air-and-ground . search about 3 p. m. yesterday.
J. Earl Milnes, special agent in charge of the Seattle office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said, - "Search efforts will continue Sunday unless weather conditions make them impossible."
YESTERDAY'S search ef- forts zeroed in on a small wooded area east of Wood- land,. Cowlitz County ~ a three-by-five-mile area south of Merwin Lake.
The F. B. I. said aircraft would search the entire route from Seattle to Reno for the well-dressed, middle- aged hijacker who parachut- ed from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 Wednesday night with $200,000 ransom.
said aircraft would search the entire route from Seattle to Reno for the well-dressed, middle- aged hijacker who parachut- ed from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 Wednesday night with $200,000 ransom.
F. B. I. agents and deputy sheriffs have concentrated search efforts in the Wood-
land area because that was where the hijacker last com- municated with the crew and where the plane's rear-exit stairs were lowered.
Milnes, however, has said the hijacker could be any- where, between there and Reno.
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THE HIJACKER boarded the jet in Portland Wednes- day, showed a stewardess a briefcase in which he said he had a bomb and demanded $200,000 ransom. He released the plane's 36 passengers and two stewardesses at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport in exchange for the ransom and two parachute assemblies, each consisting of a chest pack and back pack.
One stewardess and the three-man crew were or- dered to take him to Mexico City with a first refueling stop in Reno. Shortly after take-off from the Seattle-Ta- coma Airport the stewardess" was ordered to the cockpit with the crew. When the plane arrived in Reno the.
Shortly after take-off from the Seattle-Ta- coma Airport the stewardess" was ordered to the cockpit with the crew. When the plane arrived in Reno the. man was gone. So was the money, two parachutes and the "bomb" briefcase. The crew expressed surprise that the hijacker wasn't aboard in Reno.
The plane passed over Portland, Medford, Ore., and Red Bluff, Calif., before landing in Reno.
THE F. R. L agent.coordi- nating the search, Thomas Manning, was strongly con- vinced. the Woodland area was the best bet for finding a trace of the hijacker who used the name D. B. Copper. Manning said:
"We feel he's in this area. If we have to, we'll cover ev- ery square foot of it."
He added:
"We're concentrating our search for a parachute. We think this will give us a clue as to what happened to the hijacker.
"We've determined the hi- jacker was wearing a sport- type, backpack parachute. That means it would be diffi- cult for him to maneuver if he had any kind of bulk on him at all, and we've been told $200,000 weighs more than 20 pounds."
Authorities earlier said the ransom was paid in $20 bills,
Manning said skydivers told him they doubted a man
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Authorities earlier said the ransom was paid in $20 bills,
Manning said skydivers told him they doubted a man wearing street shoes could jump with a sport-type para- chute and land in such a rough area at night without suffering injury.
The F. B. I. agent said the hijacker was "either and ex- perienced jumper or he's crazy."
A composite sketch of the hijacker, based on descrip- tions provided by witnesses, was issued by the F. B. I. yesterday.
The sketch showed an ordi- nary-looking man with dark glasses.
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Date: 11/28/71 Edition: Sunday Author: Editor: Henry NcLeod
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JETLINER CREW . . . give details of hijacking -AP Wirephoto
Date:
11/25/71
Edition:
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Author:
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Editor:
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Cooper; Northwest Air-
Lines F1. 305, Portland
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DB Cooper-22458RENO, Nev. (AP) - A hi -: jacker apparently parachuted to freedom from a comman- deered passenger jet after ex- torting $200,000 from North- west Airlines with a bomb threat, authorities say.
Two of four parachutes ob- tained by the middle-aged hi- ; jacker from airline officials in. Seattle were missing when the plane landed here with four crewmen aboard, the FBI re- ported today.
"There's no way he could have got off in Reno," said Harold Campbell Jr., special agent in charge of FBI opera- tions in Nevada.
"There's no way he could have got off in Reno," said Harold Campbell Jr., special agent in charge of FBI opera- tions in Nevada.
"We had the airport cov- nered."
Quficials at 'McChord Aly Force base near Tacoma re: ifused to say whether the ph lots of three planes that trailed ;. the hijacked Boeing
that altitude po noygen was required.
"It would be a very safe . drop," said John Wheeler, a Boeing Co. spokesman .. "He'd- be away from flaps and other engines and go straight down."
The FBI's Campbell said to his knowledge no hijacker had "ever escaped by parachuting from a plane.
Law enforcement, officers with dogs combed Reno Inter- . national Airport and the sur -. rounding area after the plane Janded.
There was no sign of the hi- . jacker, the money or any bomb.
A stewardess said the hi- Backer had cylinders which looked like dynamite and- wires .led to a briefcase ho carried."
. "There's nothing unusual looking about him," said an- other passenger, Richard Sim- mons of Seattle, "He is mid- dleaged and was wearing dark glasses.
"There's nothing unusual looking about him," said an- other passenger, Richard Sim- mons of Seattle, "He is mid- dleaged and was wearing dark glasses."
After the plane was refuelled and the money and. para- chutes delivered by an airline employee, Flight 305 took. off .with three crewmen, one stewardess and the hijacker.
The pilot, William Scott, said the plane would have to stop in Reno, 500 miles from Seattle, for refuelling on a flight that airline officials said was headed for Mexico City.
But FBI spokesman Camp- bell later said the hijacker "igave no destination" for the drew to follow.
:"We have no information on tite man," Campbell told re- porters early today. He said
727. airliner saw any park- ¿chutes during the flight. Authorities said the hijacker probably parachuted from the plane sometime after it left Seattle. Wednesday night, but apparently there were no wit- nesses to his escape.
Thirty-six' passengers' and tivo stewardesses had been let off the plane in Seattle.
Airline officials said the hi- jacker locked the remaining four crew members in the cockpit.
Thirty-six' passengers' and tivo stewardesses had been let off the plane in Seattle.
Airline officials said the hi- jacker locked the remaining four crew members in the cockpit. after the plane took off again. "
"He's in the back of the air- plane and everyone else is in front," Federal Aviation Ad- ministration supervisor Art Wibom said during the Seattle-to-Reno flight.
The plane made the run at 10,000 fect with its rear stair- well open so the hijacker could bail out if he chose. At
The hijacker, who officials say probably boarded the plane in Portland, Ore., tolik over the jetliner shortly Be- fore it was to land in Seatile on a flight from Washington, D.C.+
A stewardess said he hand- "ed her a note, which said he : was hijacking the aircraft, and ordered her to relay in- structions to officials on the " ground that he wanted $200,- 000 and four parachutes deliv- - ered to. him when the plane landed.
He displayed the briefcase and cylinders to the steward- ess, officials said.
The passengers apparently were unaware a hijacking was under way.
"The crew just said some- thing might be wrong with the plane," Pat Minsch of Anchor- age, Alasku, saldi In Seattle.
"The crew just said some- thing might be wrong with the plane," Pat Minsch of Anchor- age, Alasku, saldi In Seattle.
the crew offered a description. of . the hijacker but he did not elaborate ..
.Scott said the . hijacker "treated us very courteous-
: "Because. the rear_door; was ropen, the cabin area lost pres- sure and the temperature in the plane dropped to seven de- .grees , below, zero, FAA offi- cials said.
: The cabin lights were shut off on orders from the hijack- er, they said.
" Other members of the hi- · jacked crew were identified as Robert Tataczak, first offi- cer ;. Harold Andersen, flight enigincer; and Tina Mucklow, stewardess ... All were based in Minneapolis.
" Campbell said a search for the hijacker would begin in the Portland area .. . " ~:
A passenger list made avail- able by the airline listed Mi- chael Cooper as among those getting off the plane
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RENO, Nev. - A man ap- parently armed with a bomb hijacked a Northwest Airlines jetliner Wednesday night for $200,
- A man ap- parently armed with a bomb hijacked a Northwest Airlines jetliner Wednesday night for $200,000 but was not found aboard the plane when it landed here for refuelling' near midnight, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration of- ficials said.
The hijacker was given four parachutes by airline officials when the plane left Seattle.
Officials said he may have parachuted from the Boeing 727 while it was in flight or
the craft was due to the pos- sibility that a bomb had been placed in the rear of the plane.
Jack Kiehler, district sales manager for Northwest in Se- attle, said the hijacker had locked all four of the plane's crew members in the cockpit during the flight from Seattle to Reno.
. The hijacker stayed by him- self in the rear of the air- plane and did not acknowledge the crew's attempts to com- nijunicate with him before the piane touched down in Reno, Kiehler said.
by the hijacker: "Get the show on the road."
Radio communications from the plane indicated the cabin lights were out and the tem- perature was seven degrees i below zero on the flight to Reno.
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Radio communications from the plane indicated the cabin lights were out and the tem- perature was seven degrees i below zero on the flight to Reno. The pilot said cockpit lights indicated the rear door was being operated.
Airline officials said the stairwell must be retracted for plake off and landing but could be lowered in flight sq the | hijacker could bail out i he chooses.
A" Boeing spokesman said
jumped out as it taxied up to the airport terminal with its cabin lights out.
As the plane. was taxiing to- ward the terminal, it stopped long enough for the man to escape safely through an em- ergency exit, the FAA said, Sheriff's deputies with dogs began a search for him among houses surrounding the air- sport.
The-crew of three men and one stewardess were hustled off the plane into waiting cars 35 minutes after the craft landed. Authorities said the delay in taking the crew off
The hijacker took over 'the airliner shortly before it was' to land in Seattle at 3:30 p.m. on a flight from Washington, D.C.
On the ground at 5:43 p.m., he allowed the passengers and two stewardesses to leave and an airline employee took the four
On the ground at 5:43 p.m., he allowed the passengers and two stewardesses to leave and an airline employee took the four parachutes and the $200,000 to the plane.
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It was not known if the hi- jacker planned to parachute from the plane, but he or- dered the plane to fly with the .landing gear and flaps down and the rear stairwell open.
The pilot said he was told
the 727 is one of the few com- mercial aircraft from which a person could bail out.
"It would be a very safe drop," said John Wheeler. "He'd be away from the flaps and other engines and go straight down."
Wheeler said Boeing hau performed an air drop demoli- stration from the 727 using boxes and "it worked quilts (veil."
A Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation spokesman in Seattle said the FBI had asked the Missoula, Mont., U.S. forest service centre to check on a Michael Cooper in connection with the hijacking.
The FBI spokesman said Cooper "among others" was
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DB Cooper-22460being investigated. The spokesman said Cooper board- ed the plane in Portland.
In Missoula, Leonard Kraut · of the U.S. forest service's - smoke jumper training centre confirmed he had "been checking all night for people, the FBI and others," whether there was a Michael Cooper who trained there.
"I'm not saying he never was a smokejumper, I'm just saying he never jumped from this base," Kraut said.
Most of the passengers did , hot know the plane had been hijacked.
"The crew just said some- thing might be wrong with the plane," said Pat Minsch of Anchorage. "We had no idea there was a hijacking in- folved until we were off the plane."
WTihle the passengers were in transit.
The two stewardesses were allowed to leave later, but the pilot said the hijacker would not allow a third one
The two stewardesses were allowed to leave later, but the pilot said the hijacker would not allow a third one to leave.
There was no explanation why the hijacker wanted four parachutes. ;
A series of fuel trucks shut -. tled to, and from the .three- engine jet.
Al Lee, a Northwest em- ployee who brought the money and parachute's to the plane, the operator of the passenger ramp, and the fueling crew were the only persons near the plane.
The passengers were onor- tioned by the FBI before being released. f- Simmons said the first world from the pilot was about at "Hour after the plane had been
scheduled to land, and the pilot said only that there were mechanical difficulties and the plane had to circle to burn off fucl.
"We' knew something was wrong when they let us off on a cold, dark runway," Sim- mons said.
[ The man was sitting in back f the plane with the stewa .- lesses, said George Labisso- Hier of Seattle.
"There's nothing unusual Iloking about him," said Richard Simmons of Seattle, another passenger.
- lesses, said George Labisso- Hier of Seattle.
"There's nothing unusual Iloking about him," said Richard Simmons of Seattle, another passenger. "He is middle-aged and was wearing dark glasses."
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. The plane, hijacked en route from Portland to Seattle, cir- cled the Seattle area for five hours while airline officials arranged to have the $200,000 and four parachutes demand- ed by the hijacker brought to the airport.
In Seattle the passengers were allowed to leave the fplane, but had to cross an- ther runway to reach a wait- eg bus which the hijacker iefused to allow near the plane. All flights were halted
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Hijacker Hunt Near Woodland
BY DICK CLEVER
The search for the skydiving hijacker of a Northwest Airlines 727 jetliner was nar- rowed yesterday to a five-mile corridor in upper Clark County, sources said.
Meanwiril e, The Post-Intelligencer learned that one of the two parachutes ap- parently used by the hijacker who escaped with $200.
Meanwiril e, The Post-Intelligencer learned that one of the two parachutes ap- parently used by the hijacker who escaped with $200.000 ransom was a non-functional training chute.
Linn Emrick, of Sky Sports, Inc., said he supplied the two chest pack parachutes that were pul onto the plane Wednesday al Seattle-Tacoma Airport.
n The hijacker, known as "D. B. Cooper" to the FBI, had demanded the money land parachutes before releasing the 36 pasten- ge's and two stewardesses. He comman- decred the plane on a flight from Portland to Seattle.
Passengers and crewmen described the" hijacker as in his mid-forties, with dark hair, about 6-feet-1, 175 pounds, wearing a black business suit and dark glasses. They said he was "very cool."
Along with the two, chestpack chutes . from Sky Sports. located in Issaquah, the hijacker was provided with two backpack chutes by Norman Hayden, of Renton Avia- tion.
The parachutes were obtained by Norths- west Airlines officials, who also got $200.000 in cash from several Seattle banks Wednesday afternoon.
The parachutes were obtained by Norths- west Airlines officials, who also got $200.000 in cash from several Seattle banks Wednesday afternoon.
Clark County Undersheriff Tom MeDow- ell sald the FBI was searching a five-mile . corridor a few miles southeast of Wood- land, where a command port has been es- tablished.
McDowell said the area pinpointed ier the search was based on information given ,the FBI by Northwest Airlines. Another
source was more specific. He said authorities believe the hijacker bailed out of the low-flying 727 at 8:13 p.m., a little over a half an hour after taking off from Sea-Tac.
The area outlined for a. full-scale ground and air search, which begins this morning, is described as "wooded and rugged."
The hijacker boarded the plane in Portland. When the jetliner was airborne, he showed a stewardess a briefcase containing two . red cylinders and wires and said he would blow up the plane unless his demands were met.
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Departing from Sea-Tac Wednesday night after ja tense, two-hour fueling of- eilation, the airliner flew s!
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Departing from Sea-Tac Wednesday night after ja tense, two-hour fueling of- eilation, the airliner flew s! uth along what aviation authorities describe as a standard "Victor 23" route over Portland, the Willam- ette Valley, Eugene, Klam- ath Falls and finally turned southeast toward Reno, Nev.
When the plane taxied to a stop in Reno, the hijack- er, the money, the briefcase, and two parachutes were gone.
Emrick said the missing chestpack chute would not have functioned had the hi- jacker been forced to use it. "I didn't know that when I went over and picked it out," he said.
Emrick said the canopy, of the chute had been sewn shut and the parachute was
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for ground practice only.
However, it was also learned by The P-I that the type of backpack chute sup- plied to the hijacker would not accommodate a chest- pack parachute.
Emrick explained that in order to be able to use his chestpacks, the jumper must have two "D-rings" on.
the backpack harness to which the chestpack can be attached.
The backpacks, obtained from Renton Aviation did not have these "D-rings." Earl Cossey, 30, of Seattle, who made the backpack chutes, confirmed this.
Cossey said he made the special chutes for emer-
gency use in aerobatic flying. They do not have at- tachments for chestpacks.
Authorities were unable to explain the absence of the unusable chestpack. But Seattle area parachutists said it was unlikely the hi- jacker would have needed it.
Authorities were unable to explain the absence of the unusable chestpack. But Seattle area parachutists said it was unlikely the hi- jacker would have needed it.
Cossey also said the back- pack chutes he made six months ago had never been unpacked and the hijacker was the first to use them. He said he was confident his chute "worked fine."
Northwest Airlines and Federal Aviation Adminis- tration officials maintained silence on developments in the hijack case, saying only that the FBI has ordered the lid on all sources of in- formation but itself. But the FBI was doing little talking.
Captain Bill Scott, the pi- lot of the airliner, and the remainder of his crew were flown to Minneapolis yester- day for a late, but no doubt meaningful, Thanksgiving .. with their families.
ANorthwest Airlines : spokesman in Minneapolis, headquarters for the line, said the crew would be in- terviewed by FBI investiga- tors sometime today. Nei- ther the airline nor the . crew would make any pub- lic statements until cleared by the FBI, the spokesman said.
Law enforcement authori- ties believe the hijacker was a man with a thorough knowledge of aviation, and
Law enforcement authori- ties believe the hijacker was a man with a thorough knowledge of aviation, and parachuting and that he had plotted his daring scheme carefully in advance.
" The hijacker's choice of a 1. 727 was a wise one, Boeing officials said, since the rear exit is behind and under the engines.
It was also reasoned by some authorities that the. hijacker asked for more than one parachute in order to create the impression he would force a stewardess to jump with him. Thus, au- thorities would provide properly peeked and un-
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CAPT. BILL SCOTT Hijack plane's pilot
TINA MUCKLOW Stewardess in air drama
tampered-with chutes.
The hijacker knew enough to order the plane flown with lowered flaps and land- ing gear with the rear door open. The effect of this was to hold the plane to its low- est possible cruising speed -about 200 m.p.h. The hi- jacker also ordered the pilot to remain below 10,000 feet, a height at which a man is. . still able to breath fairly easily.
The hi- jacker also ordered the pilot to remain below 10,000 feet, a height at which a man is. . still able to breath fairly easily.
Seattle-parachutists, dis- · cussing the hijacker's feat,
are agreed that it is entire- ly feasible.
Cossey, who made the chute upon which the hi- jacker's life would depend, expressed in fact, some ad- miration for the skydiving robber.
. But he and other chutists .expressed doubts that the ' hijacker could have held anything in his hands dur- ing the jump.
"He would have had to fuck the money someplace or he would lose it," Cossey said.
The chutist also said the hijacker could "free -fall" for as long as 40 seconds if he had jumped from an alti- tude of 10,000 feet.
"But it's awfully hard to judge altitude at night," he said, adding, "I would think he would want to open the chute soon after he jumps."
FBI agents last night still were unable to identify. the hijacker. An agent in Port- land said "D. B. Cooper" was the name the man used when he bought his ticket, "but he's probably no more D.
An agent in Port- land said "D. B. Cooper" was the name the man used when he bought his ticket, "but he's probably no more D. B. Cooper than I am."
· (A Michael Cooper from Missoula was one of the 36 passengers interviewed briefly by the FBI at Seat- tle-Tacoma Airport after the plane landed.)
Several Portland area persons active in parachut- ing activities there were questioned by FBI agents but were unable to offer clues to the hijacker's iden- tity.
The area of Clark County now being searched by the FBI with the aid of deputies from Clark and Cowlitz counties is the area where the pilot last talked with the hijacker.
"If he's in the area, we'll dig him out of the wood- work somehow," an FBI spokesman said.
Or, as Undersheriff Mc- Dowell put it: "We're either looking for a parachute or a 'hole in the ground."
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By DAVE BIRKLAND Jess Hatfield spit over the railing on his porch.
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In Brazil - or Woodland $200,000 question: Who pushed on door at midnight?
By DAVE BIRKLAND Jess Hatfield spit over the railing on his porch. "Yeah, i, the muttered, "it could have been him all right."
Hatfield lives in Clark County, five miles south of Woodt land, Cowlitz County, in the heart of the area where the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation is searching for the hijacker who parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines jet with $200,000.
Hatfield, 75, who has four acres in the Denny Creek area, said someone tried to get into his home Wednesday about midnight, the night of the hijacking.
"I was up reading when I heard a noise at the side win- dow," Hatfield said.
His wife, son-in-law, daughter and two grandchildren had gone to bed.
- "He tried the knob and pushed on the back door," Hat. field said. "One more push and he would have had a bullet through him. I was ready to shoot him right through the panel."
After he heard the noise he got a shotgun and rifle and put them by his chair, he said.
But the person who had tried Hatfield's back door didn't push again, and Hatfield never fired, and it was too "leafy" to see
But the person who had tried Hatfield's back door didn't push again, and Hatfield never fired, and it was too "leafy" to see any footprints the next day, Hatfield said.
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Earlier Wednesday Hatfield had been in Woodland, where he heard about the hijacking of the Boeing 727.
The search is being concentrated in Clark County, a fact that makes Hatfield a little edgy. He keeps his rifle by his bed. He said, "You don't catch me sleeping very sound."
Speculation is heard in Woodland bars and restaurants
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Pete Paulson, a roofer from Woodland, said, "hell, the guy's probably in Brazil by now.
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DB Cooper-22465that the hijacker had an accomplice and knew the area be- fore he parachuted.
Pete Paulson, a roofer from Woodland, said, "hell, the guy's probably in Brazil by now."
The hijacker knew the area, he had probably flown over it three or four times and he had someone meet him on the ground, Paulson and others speculated.
With an edge of envy in his voice, Paulson said, "From what I've read he seemed like a nice guy, he didn't hurt anybody."
Tom Manning, F. B. I. agent in charge of the search,
said yesterday's search of a 20 square-mile area turned up nothing new in the hilly, wooded terrain.
The search was hampered by low clouds and mist. A deputy sheriff returning from a helicopter search over the area said it was possible to fly only to 1,100 feet before mist and fog.obscured vision,
A heavy rain had begun when yesterday's search |was called off at 2:10 p. m. A dirt airstrip which parallels! In- terstate 5 in East Woodland was used as a base.
Manning was asked if the hijacking may become a plot for an F. B. I. television series.
"It could," he smiled, "but only if we catch- 'em.
Manning was asked if the hijacking may become a plot for an F. B. I. television series.
"It could," he smiled, "but only if we catch- 'em.''
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He took control of Flight 305
By PAUL HENDERSON
Af He was referred to as the "individual," a middle-aged man who made his play for $200,000 while Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 was preparing for take-off from the Port- land International Airport.
.. His threat was in a note. He handed it to a stewardess. 4 briefcase was at his side. He said it contained a bomb.
... And then the "individual" started verbally dictating in- structions from his seat at the rear of the jetliner. b
- Flight 305 was scheduled to touch down at Seattle-Taco- ma Airport at 3:21 p. m. yesterday. But with a hijacker in control, time tables went out the window when the Boeing 727 lifted off the Portland runway.
: Seattle wasn't ready for Flight 305 when it appeared on radar screens here. The money was on its way. But the parachutes apparently were not.
: Seattle wasn't ready for Flight 305 when it appeared on radar screens here. The money was on its way. But the parachutes apparently were not.
The hijacker wanted two parachutes.
Flight 305 went into a holding pattern 25 miles northwest of 'Seattle. At 4:50 p. m., for the benefit of the hijacker, ground control relayed this message to the jetliner:
' "F. B. I. and police have advised no action to be taken. Repeat. No action to be taken.
"We are awaiting his concurrence that you should land." Flight Capt. William Scott relayed the hijacker's re- sponse.
."He wants us in a lighted area so he can see what's going on," Scott radioed.
-.: And, the pilot emphasized, the hijacker wanted the money and parachutes waiting. At 5:02 p. m. they had not arrived.
1 {"Then there was dialog between Northwest control and the plane.
9 .Northwest control: "Impress on this man that we are not trying to stall. The money is on its way. It was picked up at more than one bank." y ----- : * Landing from the north, Flight 305 was to taxi to a . darkened area on the southwest corner of the airport.
" y ----- : * Landing from the north, Flight 305 was to taxi to a . darkened area on the southwest corner of the airport.
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DB Cooper-22467NertIppest control: "This is an unlighted area Maybe he would fie more light out there."
Scott: "I have just communicated with the individual and I have appraised him of the situation. He understands it may not be possible to park the airplane in a totally secure area with lights. He accepts it."
Northwest control: "We don't want the hijacker to think we are going to sneak up on the airplane."
i: Scott: "We'll play it by ear when we get down there."
Northwest control: "You hold until we have assurance that we have the money and everything.
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i: Scott: "We'll play it by ear when we get down there."
Northwest control: "You hold until we have assurance that we have the money and everything."
Northwest control (5:07 p. m.): "The money is at the airport. Now all we lack are two parachutes."
Scott (5:21 p. m.): "He's getting very impatient for those chutes. We are going to have to come up with them pretty quick. He's beginning not to accept the fact that they are coming from another area."
The parachutes had been sought, apparently without suc- cess, from McChord Air Force Base. Now they were en route in a State Patrol car from the Seattle Sky Sports airfield near Issaquah ._
Northwest control (5:24 p. m.): "They have just advised that the parachutes have arrived. So we'll go down and pick them up and be on our way."
Northwest control (5:39 p. m.): "Everything is ready for your arrival.
Flight 305 touched down in the darkness at 5:45 p. m. . and stopped in a far corner of the field with its lights blink- ing.
Scott (5:47 p. m.): "We'll ask you to stay there until we, can coordinate with our friend in the back.
Scott (5:47 p. m.): "We'll ask you to stay there until we, can coordinate with our friend in the back."
Scott (5:48 p. m.): "He says to get the stuff out here right now."
Two parachutes and a suitcase containing $200,000 had been loaded into a Northwest Orient courier car. It pulled out from Concourse A, heading for the blinking lights.
DB Cooper-22468Questions for the crew
The crew of the hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines 727 answered questions after they larided late yes- terday in Reno. From left were Capt. William Scott; Robert Rataczak, first offi- cer; Tina Mucklow, a stew- ardess, and Harold Ander- son, second officer .-- A.P. wirephoto.
Following the hijacker's instructions, a single stewardess walked out of the plane and reboarded with the parachutes and suitcase.
Thirty minutes later 36 passengers walked out of the airplane to a waiting bus. One 'by one, they filed into the Northwest Orient V. I. P. room on Concourse B for inter-
views with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
One 'by one, they filed into the Northwest Orient V. I. P. room on Concourse B for inter-
views with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. · A businessman in a ruffled suit, an airman in uniform, a middle-aged woman with red hair, two men wearing Stet- sons, a teen-ager in a ski jacket
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Hijacker's twin Looks, hobby plague Seattle sky diver
By DON HANNULA
Put a pair of dark glasses on Seattle's Bill Whitney and you've got a remarkable resemblance to a com- posite sketch of the 'Thanksgiving . Eve jet hijacker who parachuted away with $200,000 ransom.
Add the fact that Whitney is a co- holder of the Northwest sky-jumping ·altitude record at 30,000 feet and the result is suspicion.
That suspicion by Whitney's sky- . diving acquaintances led to his being questioned for 51/2 hours Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The look-alike problem has both- ered Whitney, 3828 Whitman Ave. N., who earns his living in the sound- equipment business.
The look-alike problem has both- ered Whitney, 3828 Whitman Ave. N., who earns his living in the sound- equipment business.
"It's nice to be remembered, but not this way," Whitney said. "It would be nice to look like a movie star or something, but not a guy who pulled a job."
Whitney said: "I know a lot of jumpers up and down the coast. I understand a lot of them looked at that sketch and thought of me. The whole point is I didn't do it and I don't need that kind of reputation.".
: WHILE WITNEY'S facial features' resembled the F. B. I. composite sketch drawn from descriptions by witnesses, his height, weight, age and complexion didn't match those given for the hijacker.
Whitney is 6-feet-8 and about 140 . pounds. Witnesses said the hijacker was 6 feet and 175 pounds. They said the hijacker had an olive complexion. Whitney is fair-skinned. The hijacker was described as middle-aged - be- twben 40 and 50. Whitney is 33 with prematurely receding hair.
After the hijacker showed a stew- ardess' what he said was a bomb, commandeered the Northwest Orient Airlinejj 727 November 24, and re- leased the passengers in
After the hijacker showed a stew- ardess' what he said was a bomb, commandeered the Northwest Orient Airlinejj 727 November 24, and re- leased the passengers in Seattle for $200,000 and four parachutes, he bailed out somewhere between Clark Countv and Reno. Nev.
Immediately the F. B. I. began checking out anyone with parachut- ing experience.
Whitney, who has made some 300 jumps since taking up the sport in 1965, said he first heard that he was being sought for questioning Thurs- day.
He said: "I heard the F. B. I. was looking for me and I said: 'Oh, broth- er.' I figured, rather than have them pick me up on the street or some- · where, I'd call them." "When he did, they said, yes, the F. B. I. did want to talk to him.
"If I had been guilty, I'd be in jail right now," Whitney said.
Whitney said a San Francisco, « newspaper reporter also flew to Seattle to interview him after a San Francisco sky jumper told the report- · ers he was convinced Whitney was the skyjacker.
WHITNEY SAID his problems were compounded by having few peo- ple to verify where he was the- Wednesday of the hijacking.
WHITNEY SAID his problems were compounded by having few peo- ple to verify where he was the- Wednesday of the hijacking. The bachelor said he drove to Bellingham about 7:30 a. m. and spent some time with this partner in the sound-equip- ment business, returning to the Northeast Seattle home of his partner about noon. He said his partner re- turned about 6:30 or 7 p. m. and saw him at the home. He said he couldn't recall anyone else seeing him. Whit- ney said he spent Thanksgiving Day at his parent's home in Tacoma.'
"Another thing, I wear dark glass- es a lot," Whitney said. The skyjack- er was wearing dark glasses.
Whitney is convinced the skyjacker got away. He does not consider what the skyjacker was reported to have done as difficult, "I could have , done it, yes, but I didn't," Whitney said.
But Whitney also believes the hi- jacker will be caught eventually - that he won't be able to resist telling some one some day. Whitney said: "If they ever make a movie of this, I'd be happy to play his part."
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Search pressed for hijacker
Search crews went into the field and into the air again today as the hunt continued for the daring Northwest Orient Airlines hijacker who parachuted from a 727 jet with $290,000 in ransom Wednesday night.
A 100-man posse, aided by 10 Clark County sheriff's pa- trol cars and six helicopters, fanned out again in a five- -mile line through the moun- tain foothills near Woodland.
An' eight-hour search yes- terday. produced nothing, Tom Manning, Federal Bu- reau of Investigation coordi- nator, said.
An' eight-hour search yes- terday. produced nothing, Tom Manning, Federal Bu- reau of Investigation coordi- nator, said.
- Manning said the hijacker had to be "either crazy or an experienced jumper" to make it. He said the money he carried with him when he left the rear stairs of a 727 jetliner weighed 241/2 pounds,
AUTHORITIES disclosed yesterday that the $200,000 was supplied in $20 bills-a packet of 10,000 bills that weighed' 241/2 pounds and measured 8 by 6 by 27 inch- es.
"We checked reports of possible sightings but they all proved, false," Clark County Sheriff Eugene Cot- ton said.
About 25 to 35 sheriff's deputies and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were contacting residents on the ground while two helicopters looked for a parachute yes- terday afternoon.
A 20-square-mile area east of Woodland was being checked even though F. B. I. officials said the hijacker could have bailed out any- where . hetiveen there and Reno.
William Scott, pilot of the plane, said he complied with the hijacker's request to dar- ken the cabin, fly no higher than 10,000 feet and leave the rear stairs down, Scott
William Scott, pilot of the plane, said he complied with the hijacker's request to dar- ken the cabin, fly no higher than 10,000 feet and leave the rear stairs down, Scott said indicator lights in the cock- pit showed the rear stairwell was being operated as the plane flew over the Wood- land area, shortly after take- off from Seattle.
It was also the last com- munication between the hi- jacker and the crew.
F. B. I. AGENTS told searchers to look for two white parachute canopies and parts of a pink one found open and torn aboard the plane when it landed. The agents speculated that the hijacker might have used parts of the torn parachute to tie packets of money to his body,
The hijacker also took some of the plane crew's food rations with him when he jumped.
Colton said temperatures outside the plane were below zero when the door was opened and it was assumed the hijacker couldn't have withstood the cold too long.
THE HIJACKER, who boarded the plane in Port- land, showed a briefcase to a stewardess en route to Seattle and told her it con- tained a bomb. He demand- ed $200,000 and two para- chute assemblies, each con- sisting of a back pack and chest pack.
He demand- ed $200,000 and two para- chute assemblies, each con- sisting of a back pack and chest pack.
When he received the $200,000 and the parachutes at the Seattle-Tacoma Air-
port, he released 36 passen- gers and two stewardesses, then ordered the three-man flight crew and one steward- ess to take him to Mexico City. The plane headed for Reno for a refueling stop.
The hijacker was gone when the plane landed in Reno Wednesday night.
Florence Schaffner, 23, of' Minneapolis, the stewardess, first contacted by the hijack-" er, said in Minneapolis yes- terday she thought the hi- jacker was "trying to hus -- tie me" when he handed her. a note.
She said: "I stuffed the. note in my purse and he mo- tioned that I should take it out and read it."
Miss Schaffner did. It said the man had a bomb.
Capt. William Scott, pilot of the plane, said he was surprised when the plane landed in Reno and the hi- jacker was gone. Earlier re- ports said the pilot believed the man parachuted out over the Woodland area.
Scott, pilot of the plane, said he was surprised when the plane landed in Reno and the hi- jacker was gone. Earlier re- ports said the pilot believed the man parachuted out over the Woodland area. Scott said that when the plane. landed in Reno:
"I STEPPED into the cab- in and asked if there were any more instructions, but there was no answer. I looked around the curtain and determined he was not. there."
Stewardess Tina Mucklow, 22, of Richfield, Minn., said. she sat with the hijacker when the plane left Seattle but was ordered forward with the rest of the crew shortly after takeoff.
"He was not nervous," she said. "He seemed rather nice, and he was never eruel or nasty."
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DB Cooper-22474Three members of the crew of a hijacked Northwest Airlines jet discussed the experience yesterday at a news conference in Minneapolis. They are, from left, William Rataczak, William Scott and Tina Mucklow, all of the Minneapolis area .- A.P. wirephoto.
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Sketch Made Of Hijacker
BY DICK CLEVER
Who is the man who parachufed from a hijacked Northwest Airlines. jetliner to commit one of the most daring acts of air piracy in aviation history?
: As of last night, the hijacker's identity remained a mystery, as did the wherea- bouts of the $200,000 he took as ransom money for 36 passengers and two steward- esses.
, The FBI has been characteristically tight-lipped. But the agency did release a composite sketch of a thin, dark, middle- aged man wearing dark glasses.
But the agency did release a composite sketch of a thin, dark, middle- aged man wearing dark glasses.
And FBI agents vowed to search the en- tire route between Seattle and Reno, Nev., flown by the hijacked Boeing 27.
Along with the FBI sketch, a personality pattern of the hijacker began to merge yesterday.
He was obviously a meticulous planner, en intelligent individual who plotted his es- capade" carefully. A' calm, conservatively
dressed "straight-looking" type, he did not fit the so- called profile of a typical" hijacker.
He knew the capabilities of the Boeing 727 and that it . was probably the only com- mercial jetliner from which a parachutist could safely leap.
The amount of money - $200,000 - was a large . amount, but still a sum that could be raised by an air- line in a short period of time. The weight of the 10,000 twenty. dollar bills, at about 24 pounds, would be ; liglit enough to handle in a parachute jump if the bills . were properly packaged.
But twenty dollar bills are small enough not to cause a great deal of suspicion .
were properly packaged.
But twenty dollar bills are small enough not to cause a great deal of suspicion .when being passed.
At 6-feet-1 and 175 pounds, sthe hijacker was probably in good physical condition. for a man in his mid-for- ites.
The hijacker chose a: "bomb" as his weapon? rather than a firearm. Some! law officers speculated thal the man wanted to create the fear that a possible' madman was at work who. had no fear of losing his own life if his demands were not met.
Most authorities believe the hijakcer was an experi- enced jumper. But they be- lieve his experience was in military jumping, or com- bat jumping, rather than sport parachuting.
Earl Cossey, president of Sky Sports, Inc., and Scattle parachuting club, shares that theory.
"He knew about military chutes," Cossey said. "Be- cause when he found out they were sending some chutes up from McChord Air Force Base, he turned them down."
Cossey explained that the military chutes were the type that open immediately after the jumper exits from airplane.
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Cossey explained that the military chutes were the type that open immediately after the jumper exits from airplane. This would not al- low the chutist to fall free of the military observation planes that were following the hijacked liner.
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Date: 11/28/71
Edition: Sunday
Author: Dick Clever
Editor: Dick Lyall
Title: UNSUB; Northwest Airlines, Flight 305, Portland to Seattle
Character: 11/24/71
OCAA-HIJACKING; EXT Classification: 164-81
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DB Cooper 22477· As it turned out, the weather was such that the military jets would have been hard pressed to see a `chutist. jump. '
Cossey said it appeared to him that the hijacker was unfamiliar with the various types of non-military para- chutes available. So were Northwest Airlines official.
They obtained two back- pack chutes from Renton
Aviation, chutes used by aerobatic flyers.
So were Northwest Airlines official.
They obtained two back- pack chutes from Renton
Aviation, chutes used by aerobatic flyers. The chutes do not accommodate chest- pack "reserve" chutes. Furthermore the aerobatic chutes open immediately after the rip cord is pulled, not in stages, as do the types used by skydivers to ease the shock.
Cossey believes that the hijacker "got quite a shock" when he leaped from the 727 at 200 miles per hour and opened the back- pack chute provided to him by Renton Aviation.
Cossey should know. He is an experienced chutist him- `self and he personally packed three of the chutes the hijacker was given. The fourth was a "dummy" chestpack chute used by ! Sky Sports for ground train- ing.
" Thus it is believed that the hijacker may be an ex- paratrooper or former Army Ranger, experienced in the hard realities of com- bat'and survival.
The FBI refused to say whether it is investigating persons with criminal records who may have served as paratroopers or .may have had military par- ` chuling experience.
The FBI refused to say whether it is investigating persons with criminal records who may have served as paratroopers or .may have had military par- ` chuling experience.
"We're just not comment- ing on that kind of detail," an agent in Portland said.
The hijacker had to be re- sourceful. He had asked for the money in a knapsack.
THE FBI in Portland, Ore., yesterday released this art- ist's conception of the sus- pected skyjacker who par- achuted Wednesday eve-, ning from a Northwest Airlines 727 jetliner after collecting $200,000 in ran- som in Seattle. - (UPI Photo.].
Instead he received it in a cloth sack that he would have to find a way to bind to him during the jump.
Law officers are continu -. ing to search an area of Clark County where it is be- lieved the hijacker could have made- his jump. But they are not optimistic about finding the hijacker, or his parachute.
"If he was smart enough to plan it out this far he
sure as hell won't leave the parachute around for us. to find," said one deputy.
When he jumped, the hi- jacker leaped into history. and into the imaginations of millions.
to find," said one deputy.
When he jumped, the hi- jacker leaped into history. and into the imaginations of millions. Even some depu- ties engaged in the search have expressed admiration for their quarry.
The Little Man, the aver- age Joe who only lives such high adventure in day dreams, seems to have adopted the mysterious sky- diving hijacker as some sort of hero.
"Boy, he'really pulled one off, didn't he?" is a typical comment.'
Eyes . gleam, a' chuckle rises in the throat, and then average Joe dreams of what it would be like to'make a clean getaway with $200,000[ of the . "system's" money with nobody getting hurt but the system.
But law officers and air- line officials are gravely troubled. They see a danger in the glorification of this kind of swashbuckling air pirate. This time nobody was physically hurt, they admit. But what about next time?
Authorities agree that, in- deed, it was a dashing, dar- ing crime. But, they point out, the man who did it is a criminal and must pay the penalty.
And pay he will, if they catch him.
But, they point out, the man who did it is a criminal and must pay the penalty.
And pay he will, if they catch him.
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Air Force pilots following hijacked jet didn't see jump
Pilots following a hijacked Boeing 727 Wednesday night were unable to see the hi- jacker parachute from the plane because of cloudy weather and the hijacked jet's low speed.
A McChord Air Force Base spokesman said yesterday thas two F-106 jet intercep- tors from the 318th Fighter- Interceptor Squadron were sent from McChord to trail
the Northwest Orient Airlines jet. A. T-33 jet trainer on a training mission was divert- ed to follow the airliner and two Idaho Air National Guard F-102 jet interceptors from Boise also were dispatched.
"It would be extremely dif- ficult to follow a jet flying 165 knots (the estimated speed of the hijacked jet) in an F-106," said Col. Roy King, deputy for operations
^'for the 25th NORAD Region at McChord. He said there were clouds at 10,000 feet, the hijacked jet's altitude, and that the fighter pilots had
He said there were clouds at 10,000 feet, the hijacked jet's altitude, and that the fighter pilots had very little visual contact with the plane, relying main- Iy on radar.
King said the jet fighters would have had to either fly past the hijacked jet and turn around or make "S" turns behind it.
The "S" turns probably would have taken about twix miles on either . side of . the center line of flight, he said; "Besides, you probably : wouldn't want to get too close to the plane with an er- ratic character in there," he saïd.
In the daylight it might have been possible for a pi- Iot to see whether the 727's rear exit ramp was open; . King said, At night it would · have been impossible, he said.
Two more F-106s from Hamilton Air Force Base, Calif., and an HC-130 rescue plane joined in following the hijacked 727 about 50 miles `south of the Oregon-Califor- nia border. Those pilots also saw nothing, the-McChord spokesman said.
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Date: 11/27/71
Edition: Sunset Final Author: Editor: Henry McLeod Title: UNSUB ; Northwest Airlines, Flight 305, Portland to Seattle Character: 11/24/71 or CAA-HIJACKING ; EXT Classification: 104-81
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WOODLAND, Clark County - (UPI) - A parade of alltos, pickup trucks and motorcycles wound through the rolling foothills of the Cascade Mountains yesterday, carry- ing people seeking a fortune that might never be found.
No one readily admitted he was looking for some or all of the $200,000 ransom a hijacker collected Thanksgiving Eve before he bailed out somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Nev.
In fact, although the Federal Bureau Investigation was using the Southwest Washington foothills as their operations base in searching for the hijacker, they were merely work -.
In fact, although the Federal Bureau Investigation was using the Southwest Washington foothills as their operations base in searching for the hijacker, they were merely work -. ing on a hunch-no solid evidence-that he had bailed out in the area.
BUT THEY came anyway, 1971-style gold rushers tempt- ed by the lure of easy money and undaunted by the long odds against their success.
In a gas station, three Portland-area girls home from college for the Thanksgiving holiday admitted they enter- tained fantasies of finding the hijacker's Joot.
One girl identified herself only as Anita. She and her two companions had driven to this area "just to have a look around." That was the initial reason.
"You start thinking about it," Anita said, "and you realize maybe he didn't live through the fall and there's $200,000 sitting all alone in the woods."
Would she turn it in? Anita smiled.
"It would be tempting to keep it," she said, "even if they offered a reward for its return."
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'A YOUNG farmer in a battered pickup truck stopped at a combination gas station-general store at one of the many crossroads in the search area.
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'A YOUNG farmer in a battered pickup truck stopped at a combination gas station-general store at one of the many crossroads in the search area.
As he manned the gas pump himself, his two children smiled and waved from the cab of the pickup. At first his story was that he was "headed into Battle Ground for a few things at the grocery."
But as the conversation covered the hijacking and the unusually heavy traffic on the North Clark County roads, his talk turned to "what a man could do with that kind of money."
He removed an old rag from the cab, carefully wiped some spilled gas from the side of the truck and commented how "evert a good Christian man" would be tempted to keep the money.
"A lot of people in Clark County are having to go on welfare because they lost jobs," he said, "and a man could buy himself a pretty nice farm with that kind of money"? . . even if he had to go to Australia."
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DB Cooper-22480SOME OF THOSE who weren't driving the rural roads looking for money, are rooting for the hijacker.
"That guy is smart," a waitress said, "He's probably ing Mexico laughing about all these federal agents looking all (ver Washington for him."
Even a deputy sheriff taking part in the search said "You can't help but admire the guy."
Special Agent Tom Manning of the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation mapped out search sectors in the hunt for the hijacker of a Northwest Orient Air- lines jet." A.P. wirephoto.
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Aviation Officials Perplexed
Latest Hijacking Climax to List of Woes
BY AL WATTS
P-I Aerospace Writer
Aviation officials, espe- cially those of Northwest afrites, have to be wonder- ing,""What's next?
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BY AL WATTS
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Aviation officials, espe- cially those of Northwest afrites, have to be wonder- ing,""What's next?" follow- ing - the imaginative and. bold actions of a middle- aged hijacker.
The commandeering of a Boeing 727 trijet en route from Portland to Seattle Wednesday night wove a plot which conceivably could have been dreamed up by TV writer Rod Ser- ling.
. A man as yet unlocated was- hardly a typical hijack- er. He was described by fel- q low passengers as "ro- laxed" --- a cool minded ex. tortionist, rather than a des perado wanting to fly to Cuba.
And this man, who &b- viously" knew more than, a little about airplanes, estab- glished some records in the infamous arena of hijacking -- which could qualify him as 'an anti-hero.
The hijacker, at large somewhere between Seattle and Reno after bailing out of the hijacked jet on Thanksgiving eve, chalked up these "firsts":
@ Parachuted from the rear end of a 727 trijet with the plane's flaps and wheels down.
@ Collected the largest amount of ransom money - $200,000 - ever paid by a U.
jet on Thanksgiving eve, chalked up these "firsts":
@ Parachuted from the rear end of a 727 trijet with the plane's flaps and wheels down.
@ Collected the largest amount of ransom money - $200,000 - ever paid by a U.S. airline.
Pulled off the first Se- attle area skyjasking.
This latest of 11 success- ful hijackings of commer- cial airlines in the U.S. this" year may have an adven- ture-story ring to it and have established a hijack- er's twisted creativity but Northwest Airlines officials were thankful of just one thing yesterday:
The safe return of 35 pas- sengers and a flight crew of six.
"Thanksgiving has partic- ular meaning to us," a Northwest spokesman re- marked, "because we were grateful that nobody was in- jured or killed." "
Federal Aviation Admin- istration and airline offi- 'cials yesterday remained tight-lipped about the hi- Ijacking, on orders of the Federal Bureau of Investi- gation, and said they would make no comments until the hijacker is brought into custody. .
The $200,000 xansom, col- lected from Seattle banks, was a record for the U.S., but Qantas Airways of Aus- tralia was forced to pay $560,000 on a bomb hoax flight from Sydney to Hong Kong last May 26.
, but Qantas Airways of Aus- tralia was forced to pay $560,000 on a bomb hoax flight from Sydney to Hong Kong last May 26.
That episode, involving a phone caller who told the airline there was an alti- tude - sensitive bomb aboard the Boeing 707, was a carbon-copy of Rod Ser- ling's plot of "Doomsday Flight," a made-for-TV movic.
"And the real thing made
Serling (of "Twilight Zone" fame) wish he had never thought up the story.
Now, with this week's skydiving hijacker, the TV scribes will have some fac- tual material.
"We'll probably see the whole thing on TV's "The FBI" in a couple of years," remarked Ed Simonds, pub- lic relations chief at Seat- tle - Tacoma International Airport.
And what aeronautical madness lies ahead for Northwest, which has had more than its share re- cently?
The airline in mid-Sep- tember. had Garfunkel, the Cat and Bandit, the Dog - two pets who were stow- aways in the caverns of 747s, both of which were soon liberated.
Then, two weeks ago, a Northwest 747 . bound for Sea-Tac from Tokyo had to delay its landing two hours because of an unclaimed briefcase spotted by a sky marshal.
bound for Sea-Tac from Tokyo had to delay its landing two hours because of an unclaimed briefcase spotted by a sky marshal. The briefcase, left behind by an absent-minded passenger, was thought to have a bomb in it, and if so, the device could be pressure sensitive and explode at a lower altitude.
Finally; along came .this week's skyjacker and his parachutes.
Rather ironically, wheth- er he knew it or not, the hijacker received his $200,000 ransom from one of the most consistently profit- able airlines in the basi- ness.
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Crew members of a North- mest Orient Airlines 727 jet hijacked Wednesday said in Minneapolis today they had no idea when the hijacker parachuted from the plane, with his $200,000 ransom on a flight from Seattle to Reno. : (However, the last commu- nication between the hijack- er and the crew was while the plane was over Clark County. This resulted in an intensive search of the area around Woodland. See A 7.) 
"We first knew that he was not aboard when we ar- rived in Reno," Capt. Wil- liam Scott, Medicine Lake, Minn., pilot of the plane told the United Press Internation- al. He said that the hijacker said his final destination was Mexico.
"When we landed at Reno, we thought he still was abrard," Scott said. "We webe trying to call him on the P. A. (public address) system. I stepped into the
cabin . and asked if there were. any more instructions, but there was no answer. MI looked around the curtain and determined he was not there."
The curtain separates the first-class and coach com- partments on the plane.
MI looked around the curtain and determined he was not there."
The curtain separates the first-class and coach com- partments on the plane. Scott said the flight crew "never left the cockpit. The flight crew never saw the man."
A STEWARDESS, Tina Mucklow, 22, Richfield, Minn., who remained with the hijacker while the other two stewardesses and 36 pas- sengers disembarked at Seattle, said she sat with him for about four hours on his orders.
"I just kept communicat- ing with the cockpit," she said. "Anything he asked for . I passed on to the cockpit."
"He was not nervous, He seemed rather nice, and he was never cruel or nasty," she said.
The hijacker had ordered the flight down at Seattle to- pick up the ransom money and four parachutes. The plane then headed for Reno. Scott said it flew at about isb knots at about 10,000 feet altitude most of the time. Sgott said the hijacker /did nit specify the route. 1
ASKED if there was any. attempt to stop the hijack at- tempt while the plane was on the ground, the first officer, William Rataczak, Burns- + ville, Minn- said there was
not.
attempt to stop the hijack at- tempt while the plane was on the ground, the first officer, William Rataczak, Burns- + ville, Minn- said there was
not. "He relayed his re- quests, and his requests were met," he said.
Scott said one of the most tense moments in the ground halt at Seattle was a delay in fueling, apparently becalise of a vapor lock in one of the Wines.
Miss Mucklow, dicussing The time interval in which `the hijacker jumped, said that "right after;the takeoff (from Seattle) he said, "Go to the cabin, pull the curtain, and don't come back.' " She said she obeyed him.
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WOODLAND, Clark County - The man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines jetliner may have parachuted into the darkness over the gently rolling and wooded hills of . this Southwest Washington countryside with his $200,000 ransom money.
At least that's the best hunch law offi- cers had to work with yesterday, based on information passed to them by Northwest's headquarters in Minneapolis.
' . The "cool" middle-aged air pirate, who vanished Wednesday night somewhere be- tween Seattle and Reno, Nev., Ieft law offi- cers and airline oficials stunned by disbe- lief. Some even expressed admiration for the hijacker's skill and daring.
. "You have to admire the guy, in a way," said one Clark County deputy pri- vately. "If he made it, he's really pulled one off."
Crew members of the 727 jetliner said in Minneapolis yesterday they had no idea when the hijacker parachuted from the plane.
Capt. William Scott, pilot of the air- craft, said the hijacker ordered the rear door of the plane opened shortly after take- off from
William Scott, pilot of the air- craft, said the hijacker ordered the rear door of the plane opened shortly after take- off from Seattle-Tacoma Airport.
"We never heard from him again, but we assumed he was there," Scott said.
The hijacker had enforced his demands for money and parachutes by displaying a device made from two red cylinders con- nected by wires to a briefcase.
Tina Mucklow, the stewardess who re- mained aboard for the flight to Reno after the 36 passengers and two other steward- esses were released, said of the bijacker;
"Ho was impatient for a time, but never
cruel, nasty or impolite to- me in any way."
Scott said the hijacker : did not specify any route he- tween Seattle and Reno. And he discounted any possibil- ity that the man could have received a signal from an accompilce from the ground - because of the low clouds encountered by the plane during most of the flight.
Scott said the hijacker ap- parently tied himself to a seat to prevent being swept out the door when it was first opencd. In Woodland, authorities were to resume this morning what some au- thorities confided may be a futile
In Woodland, authorities were to resume this morning what some au- thorities confided may be a futile search for clues to the : hijacking. 4.
. Undersheriff Tom McDowell told The P-I, "we hope to find something."
Tom Manning, of the FBI's Longview office, was coordinating search efforts from the command post . here.
Authorities were aided by helicopter pilots from Wey- erhaeuser Company and the Bonneville Power Adminis- tration who are familiar with the terrain to be cov- ered.
A 150-square mile area roughly diamond-shaped was marked off on a map and divided into six sectors for search teams.
Manning said the infor- mation and date by which . the area was defined was fed into a computer at Ft. Lewis, He said the informa- tion was partly based upon flight data provided by Northwest.
Weather reports indicate . there was a southwesterly wind of about 30 miles an hour blowing through the Clark County foothills at about the time officials think the hijacker might have jumped. Manning said the plane was flying 200 miles per hour at an alti- tude of 7,000 feet as it passed over Clark County.
Manning said the plane was flying 200 miles per hour at an alti- tude of 7,000 feet as it passed over Clark County.
Expert parachutists in Se- attle said a chutist could drift as much as three miles from the starting point of his jump in those wind conditions.
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Date: 11/27/71
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Editor:
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Title:UNSUB; Northwest
Airlines, Flight 305
Portland to Seattle,
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DB Cooper-22484 Experts say the mijaskar could survive a jump under the conditions he was faced with if he was an experi- enced jumper. All evidence gathered so far indicates the man was, indeed, expe- rienced.
Members of parachute clubs in the Portland area have already been contact- ed by FBI agents searching for clues to the hijacker's identity.
Members of parachute clubs in the Portland area have already been contact- ed by FBI agents searching for clues to the hijacker's identity. It has been estab-
lished that the man boarded the plane in Portland.
· `The hijacker demanded and received four para- chutes along with 10,000 $20 bills. The package of bills, according to Northwest au- thorities, weighed 241/2 pounds and measured eight by six by 27 inches.
When the plane landed in Reno the air pirate, his booty and the brief case were gone.
Manning said one of the remaining parachutes was partially torn. He said the hijacker may have used pieces of that chute to bind the money to him when he jumped.
Crew members said in Minneapolis that the hijack- er had demanded the money in a knapsack and was an- gry when it was delivered in a white cloth sack.
Experts say that unless the man had found a way to bind the money bag to him, he would have lost it.
"At that speed anything he carried would be ripped out of his hands," said Earl Cossey of Sky Sport, Inc., a Scattle parachutist club.
"At that speed anything he carried would be ripped out of his hands," said Earl Cossey of Sky Sport, Inc., a Scattle parachutist club.
It was Cossey who packed three of the four chutes pro- vided by Northwest Airlines to the hijacker. The fourth
chute was a ground training chute and would not have functioned had the hijacker been forced to use it, Cos- sey said.
Yet that training chute, a chestpack "reserve" para- chute was one of those missing from the plane `when . it landed in Reno. Cossey said the hijacker would have used the back- pack chute first, however. And he said it would "work fine."
An Air Force spokesman said yesterday that as many as eight military aircraft were trailing the hijacked liner.
A spokesman at MeChord Air Force Base `said two F106 fighters were dis- patched from there and were joined by a T33 jet trainer already airborne.
He said two F102 fighters were sent by the Idaho Air National Guard at Boise, A C130 rescue aircraft with rescue parachutists aboard was launched from Hamil- ton AFB, just north of San Francisco.
He said two F102 fighters were sent by the Idaho Air National Guard at Boise, A C130 rescue aircraft with rescue parachutists aboard was launched from Hamil- ton AFB, just north of San Francisco.
Finally, the Air Force spokesman said, two more F106s already airborne over California joined in shadow- ing the Boeing 727
However; officials saids
the military planes were not able to maintain con- stant visual contact with the liner because of the weather conditions and the slow speed at which it. was flying. None of the pursuing planes saw a parachutist jump from the 727, the offi-
cials said.
The search resumes today in the bucolic, sparsely pop- ulated back country of Clark County for a man who law officers concede will be difficult, perhaps impossi .. ble, to find whether dead du alive.
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AUTHORITIES SEARCHED THIS FOGGY AREA OF CLARK COUNTY FOR HIJACKER Foothills east of Woodland are mixture of forest and farm land
DB Cooper-22486FBI AGENT TOM MANNING, center, assigned search crews to sectors of area authorities believe hijacker may have parachuted from the jetliner.
COUNTY FOR HIJACKER Foothills east of Woodland are mixture of forest and farm land
DB Cooper-22486FBI AGENT TOM MANNING, center, assigned search crews to sectors of area authorities believe hijacker may have parachuted from the jetliner. Gathered around the map at the Woodland command post are, from bottom left, helicopter pilot Bobby Hall, Sgf. M. A. Miller, Undersheriff Tom McDowell and Sgt. Arch Thornberry.
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United Press International
A note from "D. B. Coop- er" . reading, "Thanks for hospitality," was turned over to the FBI yesterday on the chance it was sent by the parachuting airline hi- jacker who got away with $200,000 ransom last week.
The note, with printed words pasted to a piece of paper, was received by Reno Newspapers, Inc. It was addressed in light hand-printed pencil to "Reno Newspaper, Reno, Nev.
The note, with printed words pasted to a piece of paper, was received by Reno Newspapers, Inc. It was addressed in light hand-printed pencil to "Reno Newspaper, Reno, Nev.," and postmarked Oakdale, Calif., a small town southeast of Stockton. It read:
"Attention. Thanks for hospitality. Was in a rut, D. B. Cooper."
"D. B. Cooper" was the name given by the swarthy man who hijacked a North- west Airlines 727 jetliner Wednesday, collected $200,000 ransom, and then escaped by parachute while
the plane was flying from Seattle to Reno.
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"Cooper," a name the FBI said is probably an alias, caught the fancy of some people for the daring nature of his crime and for its apparent success in "beating the system."
FBI agents -- not charmed at all by the hijacker's ca- per - continued their dogged search yesterday in a 15-square-mile area around Woodland, in Clark County, where they think he came down after leaping from the plane.
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Tom Manning, the agent in charge, suggested the hi- jacker may be marooned in the rugged Cascade foot- hills with a broken leg.
But some local law offi- cers frankly admit, off the record, that they think he's sitting in a hotel in Mexico
But some local law offi- cers frankly admit, off the record, that they think he's sitting in a hotel in Mexico with the loot.
Others promote the theo- ry, "The damn foul proba-
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land said confidently: "Come next deer season ", "some hunter will find him."
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Federal Bureaud' of Investi- gation agents and Clark County deputy sheriffs con- tinued today to check out all reports that might icad to the whereabouts of the Thanksgiving Eve jet hijack- er.
But actual search efforts in Clark County have been halted for the time being.
Clark County Sheriff Eu- ¡ gene Cotton said: "There's nothing new and we've taken our men off un-' U [less something else turns up. We're continuing to check
put every lead."
J. Earl Milnes, special agent in charge of the Seattle office of the F. B. I., 'said simply: "The investiga- tion is continuing."
Temporary search head- quarters in Woodland City Hall in Cowlitz County were vacant today.
. Search efforts had been concentrated in the area east of Woodland because it was the last time there was con- tact between the hijacker and the crew of the North- west Orient Airlines 727 he
commandeered" November 24.
Indicator lights in the cockpit showed the stairwell from an open rear exit on the plane was operated at that time-arousing suspi- cion the hijacker might have
Indicator lights in the cockpit showed the stairwell from an open rear exit on the plane was operated at that time-arousing suspi- cion the hijacker might have parachuted from the plane at that time with his $200,000 ransom.
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The hijacker, who used the! name D. B. Cooper, could! · have bailed out anywhere be- tween there and Reno, where 'the 727 landed without the hi-
„jacker aboard. Aerial checks of the entire flight route arej expected in hopes of spotting a parachute. .
A mystery letter sent to a Reno newspaper was turned over to the F. B. I. yester- day for investigation of whether it was a prank or was really from the hijack- er.
The letter -- printed words pasted to a piece of paper, was addressed to Reno Newspaper, Reno, Nev. It read: "Attention. Thanks for hospitality. Was in a rut, D. B. Cooper." It was post- marked Oakdale, Calif., a small town southeast of Stockton.
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Date:
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Date:
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Passenger list for Flight 305
Northwest Orient Airlines yesterday issued this list of the 36 passengers aboard the hijacked Flight 305 when it landed in Seattle. The home- tons of the passengers were not immediately avail- able.
Dennis Michaelson Larry Finegold A. Menendez Ray D. Clouse .. George Kurota Mr. Pallart Robert Cummings Mrs. Cummings C. A. MacDonald Daniel Rice J. R. Wornstaff Patrick Minsch LaVonne Connelly Arnold O. Andvik Bill McPherson S. McPherson (son) Scott McPherson Mr. Weitzel W. P. Jensen Mrs. Helen Connors
Jack Almstead A. B. Truitt Charles Street R. P. Donohoe W. J. Murphey Mrs. Barbara Simmons Michael Cooper Nancy House William Keats C.
Truitt Charles Street R. P. Donohoe W. J. Murphey Mrs. Barbara Simmons Michael Cooper Nancy House William Keats C. Harms Zem Spreckel William Mitchell Robert B. Gregory Lynn Cummings George Labisoniere Mrs. Kloepfer R. J. Simmons G E E
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UNSUB; Northwest
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Portland to Seattle
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February hijacking recalled
The hijacking of a North- west Orient Airlines Port- land-to-Seattle flight was the second hijacking of a Seattle-bound plane this year.
February 25, a Western Airlines plane from Ontario, Calif., was en route from its only stop, San Francisco, when it was hijacked over : Medford, Ore., and forced fo fly to Vancouver, B.
, was en route from its only stop, San Francisco, when it was hijacked over : Medford, Ore., and forced fo fly to Vancouver, B. C. 5
The passengers and crew returned to Seattle after"a youth was arrested and the plane and luggage were isearched.
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Chappin. Scott Paterson, 19, who originally demanded the plane be flown to Cuba, was indicted by 'a federal grand jury here on a charge of air piracy.
Paterson later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of interfering with the opera- tion of an airliner. Hijacking and kidnaping charges were dismissed by the govern- ment. He is in the correc- tions center at Lompoc, Cal- if., serving a term of up to 10 years.
J Ninty-two passengers aijd a crew of six were aboard the Western 707 in February. Thirty-six passengers, the hi- jacker, and a crew of six were aboard the, Northwest 727 yesterday. 7
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Hijacker added hop to Northwest's puddle jumper
By PAUL HENDERSON Flight 305 originated in ashington, D. C. With tops in Minneapolis, Great Hall; and Missoula, Mont., Ind" Spokane and Portland, the flight was described by Northwest Orient as a "pud- die; jumper."
ir The last hop was to have heen Portland to Seattle. The hijacker added one more - Seattle ' to Reno - and Northwest Orient had been fepared to "puddle jump" him to Mexico City.
Three stewardesses, three jew members and one hi- jacker remained in the plane after 36 passengers had de- parted.
At 6:50 p. m., William Scott, flight captain, advised
Northwest control .that two of the stewardesses had been permitted off the plane. He had spoken with full compo- sure to this point.
that two of the stewardesses had been permitted off the plane. He had spoken with full compo- sure to this point. Now the pilot's voice reflected anxie- ty:
"Two stewardesses are in the automobile (the North- west courier vehicle which had delivered four para- chutes and $200,000).
"Just get out here and start pumping gas.
"We have one stewardess remaining with the individu- al. I hope that truck is full. He's getting awfully antsy. He wants the stewardess sit- ting back there with him on take-off."
"Empty fuel tanks were holding up take-off. A North
west Orient spokesman said hoses on the first fuel truck had developed vapor lock.[
Another problem was the hijacker's requested destina- tion. He said he wanted Mex- ico City -- 2,200 air miles. The hijacker also called for a flaps-down flight at low al- titude. .
At that "configuration," à Northwest spokesman ex- plained, maxium range of the 727 would be 1,000 miles. Northwest control began studying optional flight plans which it hoped would be ac- ceptable to the hijacker.
Northwest control began studying optional flight plans which it hoped would be ac- ceptable to the hijacker. "
Northwest control: "Seattle to Phoenix might be possible. But it is doubtful.
"Tell him that Reno makes a must-be choice for a wise
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"And be sure" he under- stands that you can't take off with the door down."
' The hijacker had posed the question. Could the plane fly with the rear staircase down? It figured into the bail-out that was a part of the escape plan, Northwest officials surmised. Minimum speed induced by lowered laps, low altitude and a staircase leading to a safe jump.
It figured into the bail-out that was a part of the escape plan, Northwest officials surmised. Minimum speed induced by lowered laps, low altitude and a staircase leading to a safe jump.
Northwest control (7:20 p, m.): "If you have to go to Mexico City, a second stop would be Yuma."
Scott: "OK, we'll plan on the second stop in Yuma. We have completed fueling. The stairs have been removed. He has agreed to let us take
off.
"He just called up and told us to get the show on the ;road."
Northwest control: "We'll keep you posted."
", Scott: "OK. Thank you, Sir."
, "He has indicated that he Wants us to keep it below 1,- 000 feet, We'll take leave of, you until we are in a position ourselves for take-off."
Northwest control: You; are . cleared for take-off whenever you are ready. Good luck on 'er.'
. Scott: "Sorry for the trou- ble."
Northwest control: "That's all right, Captain, No prob- lem."
· Flight 305 lifted into the darkness on its final leg at
7:37 p. m. A Northwest spokesman said Tina, Muck- low, stewardess, was permit; ted to join Scott; Robert Ra- taczak, first officer, and HI E.
A Northwest spokesman said Tina, Muck- low, stewardess, was permit; ted to join Scott; Robert Ra- taczak, first officer, and HI E. Anderson, second officers in the cockpit shortly after take-off.
Crew members had fol- lowed the hijacker's instruc -. tions to leave the rear stair- case unbolted. The door was" open and the staircase partly extended when Flight 405 landed at Reno 31/2 hours lat- er.
· The hijacker was not on the plane. The crew reported hp had been glimpsed in the, back, 30 minutes before at :- rival, with a , parachute strapped on, ready to jumy.
Outside, in the darkness, it. was 7 below zero.
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Persons On The Plane
Here is a list of the pas- sengers on board the hi- jacked Northwest Qrient Airlines plane at. Seattle- Tacoma International Air- port.
Addresses of the passen- gers were not given and in some instances the first names were not stated.
Passengers:
Dennis Michaelson, Larry lFinegold, A. Menendez, Ray D. Clouse, George Kurota, Mr.
Addresses of the passen- gers were not given and in some instances the first names were not stated.
Passengers:
Dennis Michaelson, Larry lFinegold, A. Menendez, Ray D. Clouse, George Kurota, Mr. Pallart, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cummings, C. A. ľ MacDonald, Daniel Rice, J. R. Wornstaff, Patrick Minsch, LaVonne Connelly, A. O. Andvik, Mr. McPhear- son.
. Also, S. McPhearson, Scott McPherson, Mr. Weitzel, W. P. Jensen, Mrs. Helen Connors, Jack Alm- stead, A. B. Truitt, Charles Street, R. P. Donohoe, W .. J. Murphey, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Simmons, Michael Coop- er, Nancy House, William Keats, C. Harms, Zem Spreckel; William Mitchell, Robert B. Gregory, Lynn Cummings, G. Labisoniere 'and Mr. Kloepfer.
The FBI identified the crew as William Scott, the pilot; Bob Rataczak, first of- ficer; H. E. Anderson, flight engineer, and Tina Muck- low.
Northwest Airlines said the crew is based in Minne- apolis.
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Edition:
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Author:
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Title:
UNSUB; Northwest
Airlines, Flight 305
Portland to Seattle
11/24/71
Character:
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Classification:
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Date:
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Edition:
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UNSUB; Northwest
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Portland to Seattle
11/24/71
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Airline Raises* Quick $200,000
How do you raise a quick 200 grand after the banks are closed?
That was the sticky prob- lem of. Northwest Airline of- ficials late yesterday after- noon when a hijacker com- mandeered a Boeing 727 en route from Portland to Seat- 'tle and demanded $200,000 for the safety of 35 other passengers.
The airline last night would not reveal the details of how it obtained the huge sum on short notice.
But. apparently, because of the circumstances, the banks opened their doors exclusively for the carrier.
A Northwest spokesman said the money was collect- ed from "local financial sources."
A spokesman for the Fe- deral Aviation Administra- tion said that all the bills were the real McCoy "and not cut paper.
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A spokesman for the Fe- deral Aviation Administra- tion said that all the bills were the real McCoy "and not cut paper."
An unidentified "North- west courier" delivered the. money to the ill-fated plane as it was parked on the end of a runway in the darkness at the south end of Sea-Tac.
Jack Keillor, district sales manager for North- west. here, apologized last night for the lack of details concerning the $200.000 transaction and for "being so closed-mouthed at this point, but our concern is for the four crew members aboard that plane."
Donald W. Nyrop, presi- dent of the Minneapolis-
based airline, issued orders to cooperate fully with the hijacker and "do whatever he demands.'
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The jetliner circled for about two hours north of Seattle and landed at Seattle - Tacoma Interna- tional Airport at 5:42 p.m., where passengers and two stewardesses were allowed to get off. Jet took off at 7:41 p.m. `and flew 2 Reno .- [AP Map.) 
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p. A3 Seattle Post- Intelligencer Seattle, wash.
Date: 11/25/71 Edition: Final
Author: Editor: Dick Lyall Title: UNSUB ; Northwest Airlines, Flight 305 Portland to Seattle Character: 11/ 24/71 or CAA-HIJACKING; EXT Classification: 164-81
Submitting Office: Seattle Being Investigated
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Hijacker was relaxed, say passengers
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p. G17 The Seattle l'imes Seattle, Wash.
By MIKE WYNE
¡A portrait of an unimpres- sive, cool and relaxed hi- jacker was sketched by pas- sengers last evening at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport as they tried to recall the seat- mate who held them more than three hours for $200,000 ransom.