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lL 1 v \ o ORM NO, 10 ‘= OMA HON - CS 4 parent (41 CPR) 101-14.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum TO i: SAC, SEATTLE (164081) (P) pe DATE: 10/24/72 Sur = + Wp FROM : SA THOMAS J. MANNING Swe FF (win ) SUBJECT: NORJAK Re memo of SA THOMAS 3, MANNING to SAC, 10/19/72 sl Jeontactel_—__] Washington and he furnished the following b7C nformat ion: \ He lives directly under the fly way between Portland and Seattle, He recalls that the night of the hijacking a plantwas flying very low and slowly over his house in the early evening and about 5 minutes after the plane flew over he heard on television that the hijacking was in progress.’ He stated the plane was a jet airliner but he did not see the plane. It was about 4 to‘5,000 feet from the ground and he recalled that the weather was overcast, very low clouds and ‘it ‘was raining. The flight of the plane was qbout 20 miles from “t. St. Helens He ' pointed out that planes ‘on the fly way always fly about 10 to $2,000 feet and in the four years he hes Lived at his present , location he has never heard ‘one so low as‘on the night’ of the hijacking, He advised that he knows the plane was over 3,000 feet for he lives near Mount Tum Tum and that is 3,000 feet and the plate was above that mountain, He d h ‘east end of Lake Merwin is approximately ‘pointed out that the — b6 plane flew directly over rea and the area over which b7C it flew is extremely rugged terrain. pointed out that recently the umber of hunters in that area, from Lake Merwin o area. stated he feels that if it was the hijacked plane b6 then the area which has been searched would have been too far west. bic He pointed out that the Plane was heard before 10:00 PM and after dark but he could not fix the exact time he heard the plane Gay rew what [ crrryitrntshes a copy of a map on which he dr BIC he felt was theflight of the plane and this map is attached. The area over which the plane flew has a number of private owners but the majority of the area'is owned by Gifford Pinchot National Forest and the Weyerhaeuser companys Ibt-H ~- #693 SEARCHED ssusneeosn: INOEAED. sseecasses SERIALIZED sesso SEFILED. Aceiten OCT 25 1972 + FBbe SEATTLE Ron (2) TIM (Attachment 1) nies Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB Cooper-9798