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RE: UNSUB; Northwest Airlines Flight 305, Portland to Seattle, 11-24-71, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION Attached furnished in reply to your inquiry. Attached furnished in compliance with request from Seattle (Teletype 11-27-71) . Only record available attached. This matter is receiving attention and you will be advised at an early date. Supplementing FBI Laboratory report dated Records FBI # are furnished since there is a possibility that one may pertain to the subject in whom you are Interested. Fingerprint files fall to disclose Confirming FBI wire of A wanted notice has not been placed as subject appears to be in custody. When you no longer desire your notice maintained, please advise.
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Hijacker
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Extorts $200,000 With Bomb Threat
Dispatch Wire Services RENO, Nev. A. hi- jacker apparently parachut- ed to freedom from a.com- mandeered passenger jet" after extorting $200,000- from Northwest Airlines with a bomb threat, authori- ties say;
Two of four parachutes obtained by the middle-aged hijacker from airline offi- cials in Seattle were miss- ing when the plane landed. here with four crewmen aboard, the FBI reported today ..
"There's no way he could; Have gotten off in Reno," said Harold D. Campbell Jr., special agent in charge of FBI operations in Ne -: vada; "We had the airport covered."
Campbell declined to comment on reports that the hijacker was an experi-, enced parachutist, possibly a fire-fighting smoke jump, er.
THE PLANE'S CREW, all Lased . in the Twin Cities were identified as William Scott, pilot; Bob Radaczak." co-pilot; . H. E. Anderson, flight engineer,' and Tina Mucklow, stewardess.
An airlines . spokesman said no passengers boarded: the plane in the Twin Cities,, one of five stops between Washington, D.
spokesman said no passengers boarded: the plane in the Twin Cities,, one of five stops between Washington, D.C., and Seat- tle.
Officials at McChord, Air Force Base Air Force Base near Tacoma refused to say whether the pilots of three planes that trailed the hi- jacked Boeing 727 airliner" saw any parachutes during. the flight ..
Authorities said ' the hi- jacker probably paracliuted from the plane sometime after it left Seattle Wednes- day night, but apparently there were no witnesses to his escape.
As the plane reached- Reno, pilot Scott was nomi- tored reporting to the air -: port tower by radio that the hijacker. "took leave of us somewhere between here and Seattle.'
Thirty-six passengers and
two stewardesses had been let off the plane in Seattle. But airline officials said the hijacker locked the remain. ng tour crew members in the cockpit after the plane took off again.
"HE'S IN THE back of the airplane, and everyone else- is in front," Federal Avia- tion Administration supervi- sor Art Wibom said during the Seattle-to-Reno flight.
"HE'S IN THE back of the airplane, and everyone else- is in front," Federal Avia- tion Administration supervi- sor Art Wibom said during the Seattle-to-Reno flight.
The plane made the run at 10,000 feet: with its rear stairwell open so the hijack could bail out if he chose .. At that. altitude: 10: dxygen was required;
'It would be a very safe drop," said John Wheeler, a Boeing Co. s po k es ma.nl "He'd be away from flaps and other engines and go straight down.
The FBI's Campbell said lo: his knowledge no hijack: or had ever escaped by par- achuting from a plane.
LAW ENFORCEMENT officers with dogs combed Reno' International Airport, and; the surrounding area after the plane landed. There was no sign of the hi- jacker, the money or any- bomb. A stewardess : said: the hijacker had cylinderst. which looked like dynamite- and wires led to a briefcase lib carried.
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A stewardess said he handed her a note, which said: he was hijacking the aircraft, and ordered her ter relay instructions to offil cials. on the ground that he .. wanted: $200,000 and foury parachutes delivered to him; when the plane landed. He- displayed the briefcase and. cylinders to the stewardess; officials said.
ORDERS to grant the hi- jackor's demands for $200;000 and parachutes and for authorities to stay away from the plane on the Seat- tle runway were issued by company officials in the Twin Cities ..
The passengers apparent- ly were unaware a hijack- ing was under way,
"The crew just said some- thing might be wrong with the plane," Pat Minsch of Anchorage, Alaska, said in Seattle.
The passengers apparent- ly were unaware a hijack- ing was under way,
"The crew just said some- thing might be wrong with the plane," Pat Minsch of Anchorage, Alaska, said in Seattle.
""There's nothing unusual looking about him," said another passenger, Richard Siminons of Seattle, "He is middle-aged alid was weat ing dark glasses."
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eled and the money and frachutes. delivered by an rline employe, Flight 300 pk off with. three crew en, one stewardess and e hijacker.
THE PILOT said the ane would have to stop in ino 500 miles from Seattle, i refueling on a flight that fine officials said was laded for Mexico City. But BI spokesman Campbell et said the hijacker ave no destination" Igr crew to follow.
We have no information the man," Campbell told
Jeporter's early today. He said the crew offered a de- Scription of the hijacker bit he did not elaborate.
Scott. said' the hijacket 'treated us very courteous-
Because . the. rear door was open, the cabin area lost pressure and the tem- perature in the : plane dropped to 7 degrees helow zero, FAA officials said.
rear door was open, the cabin area lost pressure and the tem- perature in the : plane dropped to 7 degrees helow zero, FAA officials said. The cabin, lights were shut off on orders from the hp acker, they saidl.
Campbell said a search for the hijacker would begir in the Portland area of Ore- gon.
. A passenger list i made available by the airline list- ed ... Michaela :Coopery as among those getting off the planc .: In Portland, Ores ho- lice: listed : a. Dan Cooper among those they believed Had boarded the plane there before it went on to Seattle; blit that name was not on the airliner's list of those who got off in Seattle.
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THE CREW OF A. HIJACKED jet ap- peared at a news conference in Reno Inter- national Airport early today, about 21/2 Ifours after the jet landed there. The crew.
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WOODLAND, Wash. (A) - The missing air pirate who bailed out of a jetliner carrying. a parachute and. 2412. pounds of $20 bills was "either an experienced jumper or crazy," the FBI agent coordinating, the search for him says,
Officials say they believe the hijacker parachuted from the plane over this sparsely populated area of south- western Washington, but add they have found no trace of him in twodays of searching. They plan to resume the ef- fort today,
FBI coordinator Tom Manning said Friday that searchers were working on the premise that the man was, an experienced jumper.
"If he is in the area and has landed in rough terrain, it's. an educated guess we will get some trace of him, Manning said. "We have to presume at this point he is still alive.
AUTHORITIES disclosed Friday that the $200,000. Northwest Airlines paid the skyjacker in response to a. bomb threat was supplied in $20 pills - a packet of 10,000 bills that weighed.
Northwest Airlines paid the skyjacker in response to a. bomb threat was supplied in $20 pills - a packet of 10,000 bills that weighed. 247/2 pounds and measured 8 by 6 by 27 inches.
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Details involving the speed of the three-engine Boeing! 727 jetliner, its course and the prevailing winds as it flew over the area Wednesday night were fed into a. computer Friday in a quest for information that would help searcht parties.
FBI agents told searchers to look for two white para- chute canopies and portions of a pink one found open and torn aboard the plane when it landed in Reno, Nev. They also said there might be traces of some crew food rations, which were missing from the plane,
A 100-man posse, aided by 10 patrol cars and six heli- copters, fanned out Friday in a five-mile line through the mountain foothills, but Manning said the eight hour effort under low clouds and misty rain did not yield any useful information.
The incident began after the plane took off from Port- land, Ore,, for Seattle, Wash,, the last stop on a flight that, had originated in Washington, D.
The incident began after the plane took off from Port- land, Ore,, for Seattle, Wash,, the last stop on a flight that, had originated in Washington, D.G.
THE MAN - described as calm, middle-aged and well-dressed -- boarded at Portland.
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.When the plane landed at Reno for refueling; the man, was gone.
So was the $200,000, the briefcase a stewardess said had. contained objects appearing to be sticks of dynamite, some food rations, two parachutes and part of a third.
contained objects appearing to be sticks of dynamite, some food rations, two parachutes and part of a third. The FBI speculates the man may have used parts of the torn parachute to bind the money to him when he jumped.
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WOODLAND, Wash. "(UPI) - A parade of autose pickup trucks and motorcycles wound through the rolling foothills of the Cascade Mountains Friday, carrying. peo- ple 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 Thanksgiv- ing Eve before he bailed out somewhere between Seattle and. Reno, Nev.
In fact, although the FBI was using the southwest Washington foothills as their operations base in searchin; for the hijacker, they were merely working on a hunch-+ no. solid evidence - that he had bailed out in the area.
In fact, although the FBI was using the southwest Washington foothills as their operations base in searchin; for the hijacker, they were merely working on a hunch-+ no. solid evidence - that he had bailed out in the area.
BUT THEY CAME, anyway. 1971-style gold rushers. tempted by the lure of easy money and undaunted by the Iong odds against their success.
In a gas station, three Portland area girls home from college for the Thanksgiving holidays admitted they er- tertained fantasies of finding the hijacker's loot.
One girl identified herself only as Anita. She and her wo companions had driven to this area "just to have a ook around,".
"You start thinking about it,"" Anita said, "and you're- alize maybe he didn't live through, the fall and there's $200,000 sitting all alone in the woods.1'
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."
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.
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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 battleground for a few things at the grocery store."
But as the conversation covered the hijacking and the unusually heavy traffic on the north Clark County roads,
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HE REMOVED AN old rag from the cab, carefully wiped some spilled gas from the side of the truck and commented how "even 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 , .
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.'
Some of those who weren't driving the rural roadss looking for money, are rooting for the hijacker.
"THAT GUY IS SMART," a waitress said. "He's: probably in Mexico laughing about all these federal agents looking all over Washington for him." E
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Hijacker's Note IT WAS NO DINNER INVITATION
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A 23-year-old Northwest Airlines stewardess thought the note a passenger hand- ed her Wednesday just out of Portland, Ore., was a mash note - or an invita- tion to dinner in Seattle.
So: Florence Schaffner, one of the three stewardess- is on the Boeing 727 jet slipped it into her purse, miled at the passenger and
went on with her in-flight! paper work.
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of the three stewardess- is on the Boeing 727 jet slipped it into her purse, miled at the passenger and
went on with her in-flight! paper work.
$ "But he stared at ine so hard I kept looking at him;' Miss Schaffner said at a. press conference Friday. "Then he told me that I'had. better read the note right away, I did and almost fainted. It was not a mash note. He said he was hijack! ing the plane.
"I sat down in the seat be- side him and realized I had -about 50 seconds to make sup my mind whether I'd panic or play it as cool as he was. I decided not to panic," she said ..
She then passed the note tp. Tina Mucklow, 22, who telephoned the cockpit to tell the captain that the plane had been hijacked. Miss Schaffner then got out her pen and wrote down the. orders from the most dar -.. ing hijacker in the history; of aviation ..
"He wanted $200,000;" she gaid. "He wanted four para!
chutes: - two front packst Ind' two back packs. He Vanted his directions fol- lowed with no fuss and he wanted no police at the Se- at thel-Tacoma airport; where we were to land."
Miss Schaffner took the- orders to the cockpit and Tina, a girl with rosy cheeks and long blonde hair, sat down, beside the.
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Miss Schaffner took the- orders to the cockpit and Tina, a girl with rosy cheeks and long blonde hair, sat down, beside the. unwelcome passenger:
From just outside of Port -!! lland -" on the way to Seat- tie - until some six hours later, Tina sat near the hi-i jacker in the plane.
But the three pilots in the cockpit never . caught a glimpse of the man who commandeered ' their jet plane. All. communication between the hijacker and the cockpit was through. Tina.
"Tina was the contact with him," Capt. William. Scott, 51, the 727 pilot, said at tlie press conference ath the Minneapolis-St. Paul In: ternational Airport ::
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pit talked it over and since Tina had established comt nunication: with him and.he seemed to trust her we de- cided to work through her;" Scott said.
The other two men are First Officer William Ratad- zak, 32, and second officer, Harold Anderson. The three men and Tina all: live in Minneapolis suburbs.
The four who were with the hijacker the entire time of the ordeal 'and the two other stewardesses on the flight, Miss Schaffner anil Miss Alice Hancock; sat down .
The four who were with the hijacker the entire time of the ordeal 'and the two other stewardesses on the flight, Miss Schaffner anil Miss Alice Hancock; sat down . before a line-up of cameras and reporters to. tell their story.
When it became neces- sary to stall to meet the de- mands of the hijacker be- fore landing' at - Seattle, Scott said, the passengers were told that there was some difficulty and the jet was using up fuel.
After the plane landed, and the passengers and two stewardesses had safely de barked, the $200,000 and
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3."The hijacker had speci- fied that I was to go outto meet the messenger bring. ing the messenger chutes," Tina said. "He told me that he did not want the messen- ger - coming close to the: plane.
ing the messenger chutes," Tina said. "He told me that he did not want the messen- ger - coming close to the: plane. He had specified that he wanted the money. in a knapsack but it arrived in. a . kind of laundry bag which displeased him. But he took it."
The plane then had to be refueled. It was during that time that Capt. Scott said.he felt the most endangered. "It seemed to be taking too long," he said. "The hijack- er got. restless and we kept getting messages from our office which bothered him."
Finally the plane took off in the configuration .- de- manded by the hijacker, full flaps down at about 200 miles an hour.
The crew had a bad min- uje when the hijacker or- dered four chutes. "That sounded to us like three pi- Bts and a passenger were.
going to leave the plane, Rataczak said,
After the plane took off from Seattle en route to Reno, the hijacker told Tina to walk up to the cockpit, close the curtain there and stay there. He had beside him the brief case with what he said was the bomb in it.
"As we put down in Reno: I took hold of the micro- phone," Capt.
He had beside him the brief case with what he said was the bomb in it.
"As we put down in Reno: I took hold of the micro- phone," Capt. Scott said, 'and' called out to him. We referred to him 'as 'Sir' all? through the experience. I called him Sir and told him; I needed further directions. I got no answer, so Icalled again,"
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, With that continuing si- lence Capt. Scott and his crew got up, unlocked the dbor and looked around the ( curtain. The plane was empty.
After the Reno stop the crew was flown back to Se- attle and then returned to St. Paul late Thursday. They told their story' tos Northwest Airline officials at a debriefing session be- fore they met the press.
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