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Lawmeni A ..... »! ^ressFiDa ri ngPERU, Ind. (UPI)-A hijacker who parachuted from a jetliner with more than $500,000 ransom money early Saturday was hunted by lawmen with dogs, planes and on foot in the woods and farmfields southeast of here.By late afternooon police had found no trace of the man who bailed out at about 10,000 feet into darkness from the second American Airlines 727 jet he commandeered.Police said when he jumped, the man was believed carrying the weapon, which the FBI said may have been a machinegun, with which he took control of the first plane at midafternoonFriday.He was also believed to have jumped with a canvas mail sack containing $502,500 handed over by the airline in St. Louis, Mo., and two shovels.James Martin, special agent in charge of the Indianapolis FBI office, said late Saturday afternoon the search was concentrating in wooded areasince aerial surveillance of theopen country and farm fields,where crops are just up, hadnot led to any clues on the hijacker’s whereabouts.The search area was widened and included a strip along the Wabash River southeast of here. The 12,830-acre Missis-sinewa Reservoir, five miles south of Peru, was being patrolled in boats by conservation officers but there were no dragging operations.The FBI would not comment on possibilities that the hijacker may have been killed in his jump, that he had an accomplice on the ground and was spirited from the area before daylight, or what he might have intended to do with the shovels.The skyjacking was reminiscent of the first of at least five hijackers who bailed out. A man who boarded a plane Nov. 24, 1971, using the name of “D. B. Cooper,” hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines plane and parachuted from the 727 en route from Seattle, Wash., to►* *Reno, Nev., with $200,000 in $20 bills. The FBI is still looking for him.t*vyrT _tL; '•' f * llfc'KlmmMamThe most recent began when a man c what St. Louis FBI described as a machine “grease gun,” took contr American Airlines flight llSQjuiit -flew out of St. Louis^iliffiSmidafternoon Friday.He ordered the craft to St. Louis where women, children passengers were leased. The plane then too again, circling St. Louis I hours before theordered it on a course ti Worth, Tex. But before in Texas he told return to St. I«ul8. .On the groundhijacker was given money and parachute* for assistance in pi| parachute. All but! passengers was Then a man crashed his(Turn To P (See *
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Jacksonville Daily Journal
Jacksonville, Illinois, US
Sun, Jun 25, 1972
Page 25
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