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- = win & r) } PAGE TWO PD 164-41 UNCLAS THE “AME DAW COOPER BOUGHT A ONE-WAY TICKET ON NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 395 FROM PORTLAND, OREGON, TO SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. LPON DEPARTING PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, COOPER NOTIFIED A STEWARDESS THAT HE WAS HIJACKING THE AIRCRAFT AND DISPLAYED TO HER WHAT HE SAID WAS A BOMB IN HIS BRIEFCASE. THE FLIGHT Pa GL EEDED TO SEATTLE, WHERE AFTER MAINTAINING A HOLDING PATTERN FOr SEVERAL HOURS, IT WAS PERMITTED TO LAND AND REFUEL. AFTER $402,200 A.D FOUR PARACHUTES DEWANDED BY THE HIJACKER WERE BROUGHT Oi: BOARD, HE RELEASED ALL OF THE PASSENGERS AND ALL BUT FOUR “EMBERS OF THE CREW. THE FLIGHT THEN TOOK OFF AND PROCEEDED SOUTH TAdcOUGH WASHINGTON TOWARD RENO, NEVADA. THE HIJACKER INSTRUCTED THAT THE FLAPS AND GEAR REMAIN LOWERED AND THE REAR STAIR DOOR OPE:. AS THE AIRCRAFT PASSED OVER LACENTER, WASHINGTON, CABIN PRESSURE FLUCTUATION WAS OBSERVED, WHICH WAS LATER DETERMINED TO LWICATE HIS DEPARTURE FROM THE AIRCRAFT THROUGH THE REAR STAIRWELL DOOR. SINCE THAT TIME NO TRACE OF THE HIJACKER, THE PARACHUTES, OR THE MONEY HAS BEEN FOUND UNTIL SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1%, i986, | t Q.; THAT DATE WHILE ON AN OUTING WITH THEIR CHILDREN, MR. DB Cooper-902