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soe aba aa NP tee, res aera : y threatened to blow up thes clad only in-a light: business« - erst tat ‘Plane, +: . - ot it) suit.and street shoes. He par-; 3 + By“Allen Nacheman Airline: officials and FBI.J achuted into the blackness of } » .d ~+ Portland, Ore. ‘—AP—! Agents! complied with his: a raging thunderstorm, into 2 ; | L .Two years after parachuting Tequests and Cooper allowed 200 m.p.h. hour wind and! i+ froma Northwest Airlines jet: the passengers and two of i temperature of minus 7 de-.; > --With $200,000 in ransam: the three\stewardesses to: grees. a 4 ~3 -/money, the plane hijacker; disembark at Seattle. “Tp 2 Hetcould’ not have. sur-4 . -—. 14° knownas Dan. Cooper. re- ..> Then he ordered the plane-3 vived,' police reasoned. They’! _§ .™ains a folk hero and a mys- _ '0 flysouth to Reno, Nev., at’! said they, were simply look-# tery. ; . ~*~" 200 miles per hour, at 10,000-4 ing for a body and a bag of -6 =.2 Heis, according to the US. ‘feet, flaps down. The crew 4 money and. that could wait} .. Bug .7 "Department of Transporta- ~ WS to stay in the cockpit. <j 3: tion, the only person ever to - After takeoff from Seattle,” : “ until the ‘spring thaw. A j & vg chijack a domestic airliner .2 rec light flashed: tn the-j week later the army ofj* Sons. -. 9 "who has not been killed or COCkpit.indicating the plane's | Searchers was disbanded. is ys, : Pp H : i i + 20 brought to justice. He may be » Tat boarding ramp had been.< ;Ia the ensuing months,}.; %, ios og 2) deadvbut... - * {+ Unlatched. =. vd ‘Cooper became a legend in}. 7 L&R 12 . “Werreally know nothing Nothing was heard from} the Northwest — picturedas{] {70 0. %: . 54 more ‘about him today than . Ccoper for about 20 minutes. 4 a lone Robin Hood who stole} :~ -~ . ‘ ; 223° we did-at I p.m. Wednes- - At 3:10 p.m., as the plane } from a giant-corporation, “for tec - SME i 24 day,.Nov. 24, 1971" savs Jue Crossed the Lewis River in ‘J hurt no one and got away. At |’ haste celed. pt the fanson: = 96 «lius Mattson, special agent in "Southwestern Washington, 4 song extolling his feat be-{ 1 Bat let the offer, 23. “b "3" charge-of the Portland FBI: ~ 2.” . le came a hit. “D. B. Coover,! 7. |. st week, on the sec © 26 . office. 2 : et oY 4 2” Tshirts! \iond. anniversary of the chi és ‘office. : a sage Where Are You?” T-shirts; ’.-., ki Fi) 27” “Authorities said this is *: Capt William Scott thought + — coia by the thousands. y jactong, the Oregon Journa >g what happened on thac: the hijacker was having trou- The media had erroneously’ {°-"@WSpaper offered $1,000 4 Thanksgiving Eve: | ble with the ramp and called. | igentitied the skyjacker as‘D.. | 27¥one who could produce oy 29 -:&man who gave his name | ack over the plane's inter B. rather than Dan Cooper. "* , haw the $20 bills.; There 2 2) way ticket at Portland Inter- , ° “Anything we can do for 300 soldiers from Ft. Lewis~ + _attson says a number of Sanat at ‘ an - 2 ‘ng terrain) Fol agents hav: ‘Oi national Airport to Seattle; YOu?" :: -4 searched the thawing terrain’: g ¢ worked 'on 22 -aboard “Northwest Airlines’ | *~ TAere wasno answer. - : for.18 days. They found not a: ; the vine {0 no avail. - 7255 ‘ 32 Fught-305 which originated : Light flashes again’ - -*; trace of Cooper, “Although. ° eae convinced Cooper, is = 34 in Washington, D. C. a4 ’ Another light flashed - we did find a body and”. ; “No! The terrai ee Ns 25 “--No antihijacking measures 4 showing the ramp.was fully : cleared up a local murder,'? ; rupee ¢ nt he S just too “E zp were in operation as the 36 } “extended. A few seconds lat- } says EBI agent Mattson. © --- "searched “A re thoroughly. * 22 passengers boarded the.! er the hijacker came back on:' ‘ ‘We investigated every ‘the ossibilit phere ig still $ + Boeing 727 for the 25 minute! theinterphone:“No.” ~~ --.4 - report and sofarhave proved an & di ily he may’ have @ 3@-flight-¢ 0 2s > 222) “that was ‘the last ever! that the various men report-. Which ig 30 peeee, Merwin, © ye er : wo : im: , (4 , ed. to be Cooper could not, ‘WAlch is 30 miles long, a mife = 19. ‘Handed a note _ ud Jbeardofhime 0. 4-4 have been th light: {Wide and too deep tog a rata ee - When the plane landed im ave been the man on Flight’ be searched by di 10---Oricelin the air, “Cooper4 Reno, the rear ramp was: 305,” Mattson says. °° 4 ae ed by divers. #525 handed: stewardess’ Tina} - 3 ee aa ES € are keeping an opens et ES 1 ” . . vo. : ae } down and Cooper was gone.. Novevidence ©." Ss] mind for lack: of evidences. 12 teeta Following Coo 4 The 21 pound sack of money. “We have no physical evie ’ either way — that he is deny + Jers: orders,. Miss Mucktow i 4S gone. One set of Penae \ dence to goon except the $20 'Oralive, We are still workinx® 14 sat beside the skyjacker and - chutes was gone. Skye. as. ier bills,” he said, adding the. aS hard on the case now® { . i 1 3 eo .- kc ; : : _jacker. who_had carefully ¢ - of :all10,000: bilis s : We were tw * £ 45 -wrote -down instructions. to Teclaimed his note.to the} numbers of valt 10 000 bills H . o years ago $ ,-thepilot ~ - cn i ; we were circulated to banks in a-, -) === £462: * . > stewardess, had left no fin-i = - 34: “booklet. N thas: i & +«He wanted 10,000 twenty | ‘gerpriitss ise) aed page~ booklet. None ‘has i . } 47 dollar bills to be delivered to 1 ee a ee aay” turned ups 2 See ot tg £ gghim at Seattle in a laundry | -‘suthorities believed Coog.; =~ Northwest Airlines, which * 7 49 arachutes Otherwise he“; PS4F! Woodland.” Wash. Tae: - . - ayten to pape 3 column i * | ; 397° ees ; : | .tdwitwas transformed into.a er P Be : agg § aq yet Bo he hebtstlifig command past fonai #8 ay Ba - i poe ,sinall army: of newsmen aid } , a ms * ‘ 32 - dozens of FBI-agents; police! ° £53 and soldiers from Ft. Lewis, | we 54 . Wash. F008. et ee With’ planes, . helicopters,.J --. +i - jeeps and track: dogs, they { a combed the vast, densely |. _-Wooded region_northeast:of * 4 ~ * Woodland. Much of it was, — -Tugged “terrain, - thick * with: { freshly fallen snow, and. Vir-. “ oe ; _ ie a pore vo ea Cn . ehe-bijacker left the plane ©} — ao wae webs ah nee ese eS