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id a piece’ of apple pie, whil yr the Greyhound bus. H had already purchased a ticket, to Port-s "land, : for: 90,-cents,. and, had a planet “ticket from Portland to Seattle: ‘as well £ \ On the practice flights; he had’ user worked at Boeing where’ noise: was al-2 ways a problem. So he chose the: word: decibels, and took. the letter ‘““D”. fro! ‘it. And what, he ‘said, would make mor noise than a lot of decibels in a barre]? , "“eooper".. Thus, D.B. Cooper, just th kind of name a methodical- minded e gineer would choose... Sehr Ky. When the. bus reached Portland. at, Cooper strolled around the. terminal to" gate, carrying his briefease. He watched There were no such agents present, so. Cooper tagged along at the end of the line, so he could geta seat é at the back ie No “marshals | were on board, however,. =" te) Cooper took a seat in the. extreme™’ 7 minutes out of Portland, the stewardess,* ’ of ;- Cooper avoided any Wait Abia about 1:45 p.m., Cooper caught a taxi to.” . the airport, arriving at about 2:15. The* “even see his “bomb” would be the stew: ; flight was scheduled to leave at 2:40 p, m.” kill time, then walked directly to the... as the check-in line formed, apprehen- ~ sive for fear federal agents would be.~™. at-the gate searching hand luggage... ‘ns iagnislealinanrs Btn Lor ot ae UA Kod SEE Camas Ee TD “P . n some , flights, , he planned just to sit. ight, ‘and take ‘a normal flight to Seattle, e rear. of the plane and’ just waited. | was still safe. still had the note. I: =, still had. the option just to take a ride, | But I knew this,was the beginning. Right. a here, “All the work that had gone on he-~ i fore, that was just an accessory. Because. nobody knew what I was doing. And I.. wasn't doing wrong to anybody.. . "Odd as it may seem, I had Prepared. for this ‘so long that when it actually * took place, it was just like having ‘a: 5, Thus “B.” And who makes barrels? A:\” dress rehearsal, " Cooper said. Eo The Crucial Flight *- z he dislikes guns—and the _way his plan. was to go the only person who would “~ardess.. And she would be “scared to: ” death, and wouldn't know a real bomb — from anything at all. I could have made ‘it out of paper and she wouldn't have known any difference.” “So, what was the worst that could hap- pen? They could apprehend me. Or, if _ I got as far as putting the plan into mo- tion, and left the plane with a chute I ’ wasn't familiar with, then the chute pD4Nmewer SO OMAM AMEN DAO EOF Ce or rene oda ‘ asked him what, he wanted to drink,» 7 - will be fine and no one will be’ any“. were delivered to the plane ened. Ba -. That was the. substance,: if not the’: _Coopér said. 25h Sars ’ The crucial’ flight. was about six min “utes late leaving. When it was about 10 -’ ” taking’ orders for drinks, had worked" : "her way back to‘Cooper’s seat. When she *: ’, Cooper reached inside, his jacket: and... _While the FBI. was rounding.’ sie } handed her the note, It Was typewritten? 2 7 money; and - -pagachutes, : Cooped on plain white paper, “and the message >7, word that when: the plane the ter was plain: “I have a bomb in this brief : case, Lam hijacking this plane.’"s;.,,; The stewardess’s eyes widened. Sur prised?” Cooper said. “Just follow im: -instructions. Exactly! And everything * done, from possible: vo eek When | and the: money and parachute: eplaned _ wiser. Just report this to your captain.’ a bus came out, and everyone verbatim words, of the conversation.” .. to Cooper’s’ ‘plan’ and was ‘in olt: For the next two and a half hours, Cooper’ his ordering of four parachutes and the stewardess were seatmates. He’: iy ics ‘kept her beside Him and used her as a. “The Order for Two’ . courier to take instructions to the cap¢"’ No one had, pulled this xind of. s tain. When the plane reached Seattle: “jacking before, so Cooper had had some and_ began circling, | ‘Cooper instructed *- her: to go forward and tell the captain | _ “to advise Seatac (Seattle-Tacoma Air: - chutes. I decided to order two complete. careful planning to do. “The on¢. thing «=: 1 had to watch‘very carefully. was. the port) and Northwest to procure $200,000 « sets. Why? Because if they thought 1. in $20 bills and four parachutes, and _ was going out-of that plane a one, Ti : sen a mae Nat Sad MAY 8 a Bale have them at the plane.” -¥ >" wouldn't have given you a plugged nickel | for my_chances. Because they wouldn't: care if I dropped out and went ici ’ ‘a » ade a While the plane circled, Cooper and the stewardess chatted. . “She told me * gyNatinagatieis 20 ome DOO NM HOF DAH NM ENO ORO,