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ee nity ~ we gees is 4, Es PP RLS vee we epersy x ah men Hee 2B az PEN AS * ORs fe nee patente . a ve “ ‘A we ws a threatened, to" ‘blow up the-{ clad ‘only’ insa, Tight! ‘business , rents I AS ae tgerds ian --plane.: Mae OI 6 te sal -suit.and street shoes. He pare} rere 7 ne nate “By’Allen Nacheman woe fc eAlrli et -Offictals jand FBr.! achuted into the blackness of} a ‘ve Portland, 1 Ore" —AP— agents|-complied “with his’ a raging thunderstorm, into a4 Two years after parachuting: requests and Cooper allowed ? 200. m.p:h. hour wind and “from-a Northwest Airlines jet: the ‘passengers and two ‘of } temperature of minus: 7 Se, -.With $200,000 in ransom}’ ’ the: three\stewardesses toi grees. 11. ary amoneys; the plane hijacker? . disembark at Seattle... ..5, iq t "He; could ‘ not “have. sur“: “known as Dan-.Coopersre=? «2% ‘Then -he ordered the plane-4 vived, police reasoned. They-! . mains a folk hero-and a mys- * ito flyisouth to Reno, Nev.,-at™ | said’ they. were simply-look-3 . “tery fo o“fo3 <,'s "200 miles per tour, at 10 000-4 ing, for a body and.a bag of.) * . 22He ist; according to the Use “feet flaps;-down. The crew 3 money and. that could" ‘wait’ “Department of Transporta- “= Was to stay in the cockpit. lay A tion, the only person ever ta7-% nis “After takeoff from Seattle,” thnk OT mh motored ve me oe en on a arnt until the «spring ‘thaw. “A wT gate aor 2 “Werreally know nothing + ak * Nothing was heard froma the Northwest — pictured as A] 4. hijfack-a domestic airliner. a ‘red: light) flashed* In thes week: later ‘the. army‘’0f {+ Br ates oes aps a - who-has not-been killed’ or : COcKpit.indicating the plane’s’ ; searchers was disbanded..-’ i > ee ol brought to justice. He may bes “rear: boarding ramp | had been. * In, the’ ensuing months, ae 5 Hi fe) cle | ~ dead, bute.c > af + Saunlatched. +++. 0% =o *Céopér became a legend ing % Lac . . ¢ tore a ba oman mote: ‘about him today than : Cooper for about 20 minutes. 4 a.lone Robin Hood who stole get ‘Front pagel ~" * we.did‘at' 11 p.m. Wednes-- 4t°8:10 p.m. as the plane 4 fiom: a giant- corporation, -t etore ‘decovery of the ransom, - . day, Noy. 24, 1971" says Jue" " crossed the Lewis River in-| hurt no one and’ got away A Ne shas canceled the offer. OTEET? “alius Mattson, special agent in.# 7 southy estern ra Washington,” sorig extolling. his feat be) Ves" Bor tast w k, % soles ‘of the "Portland FBEY ie as oe =i . Where. pit your cornet fea -ond: anniversary’ of the secx office. ¥ * ; ott tho . ‘ifacking, t ( > LAuthorities said. this ‘is Gee t-wdlain Sot tought sold bythe ouende, newspaper olferee $1000 to "what - ,happened on that. ‘ble-with the ramp and called | :.anyone who could produce at Te “Thanksgiving Eve: ~ ’ ae identified the skyjacker as:D.'- mares “ine we, gave his name. 13 back over the plane's inter="} —B rather than Dan. Cooper: a Bar one of the 520 bills: 7 There’ as-DanCooper- bought a one {, PORE: *.Then, late in Marc ad - ' asp ticket at Portland Inter-- 47 -“Anyt thing. we can do 100 300 soldiers from Ft." Lewis i? Bey son Says a number of*i : national Airport to Seattle] You?y4 = leer tt Oth searched the thawing terrain? ithe cabs t ave worked ‘on. “ -,aboard-«Northwest Airlines? 1-7? Thee was no answer, * for.18 days. They found'not 2’; | to no avail. - ail : Is -“Flight‘305- which originated | ” Light flashes again“ “~.<} trate of ‘Cooper, “Although. - demane convinced Cooper i - in-Washington, D.C. . >". “4 2S? Andther. light flashed :} We did find a body: and: “No! The 1 *"s-No-antihijacking. measures Snowing the: ramp.was fully 1 cleared up a local’ murder,§ é oat. "beatae. . were” im operation as the 36 | ‘extended. A ‘few seconds lat- 4 . “says FBI agent vane ae wee ‘searched. And there is still “ passengers boarded ‘the! ~er:theshijacker;cameé back on;” "We investiga’ e vey ithe possibility he may have | Boeing. 127 for the 25 minute; the interphone: ; YN! 2d - report and so far have proved. landed in bake. Merwin, 3 r flightey watts pater $455) Sf that. was “the slast. ever} Saar ser coule not). twhich is 30 miles long, a mile ne red'to p i «wide and too deep to drag. or i Handed a pote SUS heard of him. 0 3” we h i < wae Lanes ” have been the man on Flights : § a ~ “: When the plane landed im 305," Mattson says.” , cs i" searched by divers. : A is: 0-4 eum bsaintdeased cadbene we wade, / balun Avery Brest TOnice} in* the air, “Cooper _Reno,: the rear ramp was! : “We are keeping a “ “handed! stewardess ~ we * down ‘and-Cooper was gonéss No:evidence » (Oesest Imind for lack oF evidence” x *: hada OW 2 “falls aoving © The 21 pound sack of money \ “We have no’ physicat evie « ‘either way — that he is dead 3 ®er’5 Jorders,. Miss. Macklow | Was ‘gone. One set, of Pye | denice to goon except the $20 ‘oF alive. We are still working © eb side the skviack a i: chutes: was gone. The sky-{. _billg""he said, adding the, 28 hard of, the case now: as.} jpcak Deside the skylacker ane ackery whozhad-carefully* | nunibers* of fall10,000- bills; ; We Were two years ago." “4 nwiotesdown. -instructions tos] 7 “yeclaimed™ “his; noter to- the4 fe were circulated.to’ banks-in as” n § rere sthepiloy<.: * a be : “stewardess, -had: ‘left. no fifimy 4 “ 34%page* booklet: None “has : a, « * :2He, wanted 0,00 e 204 tg tt ates A 10,000-twe nty- ‘ gorprints:. “ae uae tea eet a 7 tarmmed ups "6" fers E 4 2 dollar:bills to’ be delivered:to.} 7 = ‘him. at’ Seattle in 2 laundry =|: = duthorities. believed: Cooke} % = Northwest:Airlities, "which “ext fiinjped “from + thes: Platte! _Sifered?a. $25, 000 -reward?: 4 perschutes. Otherwise’ he “neaet Woodland,” ‘Washi “hae «Tarn to ) page 3; column 1 i | he “ye cd: stdwikwas' transformed ind. TT aers ee = x ae Deans oii ecd = Ean ep astliig command post for, fgnall ‘army: of “newsmen aaa} dozens‘ of FBL~agents>: police: and soldiers from Ets, Lewis, Wash. 7S 6 wy" ta _ Withr- planes®: “helicopters. . jeeps:.and, track: dogs, wel - & 2 oh SR Sate rs . aoe . 4032 ‘set < Pvt PO amwha - - te A ee ot combed the vast, densely. . + wooded 1_region northeast.of./ . Woodland: Much. ‘of it.was’s ssbuggedS terrain; :. thick: a" Tally fallen shows 2 ‘and. Vire/s tually-impassable; © 3 2 74." . . . gene: :hijfacker. lett the -plané E & DB Cooper-110 kode tolck blot layin a, wae ‘