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wheres ANON: Let's ; go back’ rn little is in. ‘time and space: You - hie 727400' is aad under. ‘the’ center. engine,’ Thar’ . said knew how close McChord is to Sea-Tac. Does that "meant, cent ; per math Nirboteat, being : , ; : _ ‘s , gMean you ever lived in the Seattle area? - ‘ vacuum-cleanered into a “pound turbofan or hee did you come down? tell you ao ti give you: 2. COOPER. Yes. In fact, I once was “a’Larry into french fries on 2 flap. It.was really the only ship; all hats rah over a hundred miles away from’ S.w.'% Lunchbucket at Bocing’s. arene bees wt pre ‘80 tons of it, that would fit my, needs, and.the door,was ge: i ; cena ea ad eve cet danpeae ANON: Outrageous! © 50007 + “nt dye ee eS the crux, the key. It’s six-foot, four inches. high and two i ANON: ‘Bat: he FBI contends you bailed out Were you an engineer at Bocing, or something like. feet, eight inches in width. Room ‘to spare’.for, ‘an ‘down by Vancouver Washington, if 1 remember right. © 2.,>. that? . ~ ordinary-sized person like myself, chute pack vandal COOPER: I.don’t want to disapoint you or your local Wet : ‘ COOPER: No, nothing that fancy. Just an ‘ordinary - ‘> Look. You don't get an encore for an act like’ mine. sEfrem:Zimbalist, but they are wrong. If they had as:' ~ badger, but I did work on the 727’s. I worked on the 7 ' figured everything down to. ‘a gnat’s : ass. Even they ifmuch in‘the brains department as they do in the money:, first Boeing 727400 standard transport that was first. stairway [ was to :)'chute : from. ; eae department, ‘: oI'd bein jail right now instead of talking’... flown by Eastern Airlines way back in 1964. ns » hydrautically-operated * number, and “has: automatic {00 you;: While. we're on the subject, I wish somebody : ANON: A nice ironic touch.., . y J" veversion to manual. control, You. might say that;. ee would ask that Milnes character just how much money COOPER: Yeah, one of many... © 2 * _. skyjacking, it’s the little things that count, ic he’s, spending to’ ‘chase my ass, J bet it’s a Pretty penny - ANON:...So you got to know the 727 from the inside’ | ANON: Let’si interrupt the chronology fora minute 7 over $200,000," os » gi. out. What attracted you to the plane as being ideal fora . and talk about motivation, Why did you do it? Of co ihi-: ANON: How do you know his name? | oS oy a aa. parachute skyjack? _ there was the $200,000, but what else impelled you OPER: I read the Papers just like everyone else," _ COOPER: First of all, the alignment’ of ‘the’ three COOPER: I've read the papers, watched television, all erall, I’M'in them. 1m os ‘ Pratt, & Whitney engines-two on the sides of the rear... of that. I've read that I’m a non-hero, a pop hero, an na you tell'u us whe the fst thing you id: “” fuselage and the third at the base of the T-tail assembly, ' _anti-hero, and a plain old hero hero. The Ordinary Guy. se ‘1 also liked the down-flaps stalling speed. One hundred _ ‘who beat the system and became the ‘instant idol: of: ‘and nine miles per hour, to be exact, Risky, but every stiff on unemployment from “Vancouver..:to: . jumpable. Then I figured in the small.crew; three on the.’ Tijuana. I've been called a jet-age Jesse James and the: . ‘flight deck and the three stewardesses, Two central §_- Robin Hood of the air. Some of that drivel makes me: ». galleys and the wardrobes with two crappers to the . laugh~and some of it makes-me sick, to be frank with} “ rear. 1 figured those might come in handy as a place to —=you. I want to tell you right now, and put it in capital OOPER: Yep, an evergreen jungle,” *:.” ‘ “ANON: How far were you from where you wanted to OPER: In the neighborhood of five miles. Not too z hold a stewie hostage. As it turned out, I was right. I can: * letters. I did it for the money, true, BUT I ALSO DID IT. by for a first try. 7 “., even tell you ‘the number of passenger seats, right down BECAUSE IT WAS FUN. There is a thrill in being the’ i . y ANON? How did you get so close? : to the last piece of lint: [a8 i. +," first to do the impossible. Ask Armstrong, ee ' ANON: Go ahead. - _ “! « , ANON: How do you feel about the backlash of your COOPER: Ninety-four. 28 first-class seats, four - hijack, the lives that were lost when people tried to copy abreast. Sixty-six tourist seats, six abreast. . : <4, 207 your modus operandi? { a _ANON: What about your exit? "- + COOPER: Well, for one’ thing, I was personally ; COOPER: I was getting to that. The ventral door on %? responsible for the stiffening of airline security, I say COOPER: Multiply time by speed and you come up with distance. I knew how fast we were going—afterall | “told the pilot what speed to go-what vector we were