SAC Seattle to Director re chest pack and back pack parachutes rigged by Earl J. Cossey
Document date 29 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-11:015-016 Document: Teletype SAC Seattle to Director re chest pack and back pack parachutes rigged by Earl J. Cossey Id: Cooper-Part-11:015-016 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-11%3A015-016 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 11 pp. 15–16 (DB Cooper-1908–1909), Teletype, dated 29 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-157 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-11%3A015-016
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date: 11/29/71
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Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTYONE. CAA DASH HIJACKING; EXTORTION.
REBUCALL TODAY.
LAS VEGAS NITEL TO BUREAU AND SEATTLE, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER TWENTYSIX LAST, TRANSMITTED ELEVEN FIFTYTWO P.M., REVEALS THAT ONE CHEST PACK AND ONE BACK PACK PARACHUTE FOUND IN FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE ON LANDING IN RENO, NEVADA. EXAMINATION OF BACK PACK PARACHUTE BY MILITARY EXPERT REVEALED IT WAS IN USABLE CONDITION AND COMPLETE AND OPERABLE IN ALL DETAILS. CHEST PACK PARACHUTE OF BRIGHT PINK, ORANGE COLOR, DETERMINED BY MILITARY EXPERTS TO BE IN OPERABLE CONDITION. HOWEVER, IT WAS OPENED WITH THE DROUGE CHUST MISSING IN THE AIRPLANE. .!
EARL J. COSSEY, MASTER PARACHUTE RIGGER AND CHIEF RIGGER FOR SEATTLE SKY SPORTS, ISSAQUAH, WASHINGTON, ADVISED THAT HE PERSONALLY RIGGED A CHEST PACK PARACHUTE WHICH WAS USED FOR TRAINING
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Sub. D CC - PARACHUTES.
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JEM:eon (1) 164-81- 157
Approved: ________[signature]________ Sent 10/21/A M Per Sla Special Agent in Charge DB Cooper-1908
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PURPOSES, SEWING THE PARACHUTE PACK UP IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT WAS COMPLETELY INOPERABLE AS A PARACHUTE.
THIS PARTICULAR PARACHUTE, ACCORDING TO COSSEY, IS ONE OF THE TWO CHEST PACK PARACHUTES THAT WERE DELIVERED TO THE WASHINGTON STATE PATROL FOR DELIVERY TO THE NORTHWEST AIRLINES FOR DELIVERY TO THE HIJACKER.
SINCE FOUR PARACHUTES WERE GIVEN TO THE HIJACKER, TWO CHEST PACKS, TWO BACK PACKS, AND SINCE ONE CHEST PACK AND ONE BACK PACK CHUTE WERE FOUND IN THE PLANE, IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THE ONE CHEST PACK CHUTE MISSING WOULD HAVE TO HAVE BEEN USED BY THE HIJACKER. THE SECOND BACK PACK CHUTE PROVIDED THE HIJACKER WAS OPERABLE.
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Approved: _______________ Sent _______________ M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge DB Cooper-1909
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-157