Seattle to Director re passenger questioning crew about airstair and parachute egress
Document date 28 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-11:305-306 Document: Teletype Seattle to Director re passenger questioning crew about airstair and parachute egress Id: Cooper-Part-11:305-306 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-11%3A305-306 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. 305–306 (DB Cooper-1773–1774), Teletype, dated 28 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-99 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-11%3A305-306
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date: 11-28-71
Transmit the following in ______PLAINTEXT______ (Type in plaintext or code) Via __TELETYPE____ URGENT (Priority) SUB FICE
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SUSPECT
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI ATTENTION: FBI IDENTIFICATION DIVISION SAC, MINNEAPOLIS
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION; OO: SEATTLE.
[REDACTED] DOB [REDACTED] [REDACTED] WASHINGTON, FINGERPRINT CLASSIFICATION [REDACTED] PRESENTLY [REDACTED] ON NOVEMBER TWENTYTHREE, SEVENTYONE, WAS ABOARD A NORTHWEST AIRLINER SEVEN TWENTYSEVEN AND [REDACTED] [REDACTED] DURING THE FLIGHT HE ASKED A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS INCLUDING HOW SLOW THE SEVEN TWENTYSEVEN WOULD FLY, WHAT DEGREE OF FLAPS WOULD BE NECESSARY TO SLOW IT DOWN, WHAT EFFECT LOWERING THE WHEELS WOULD HAVE ON THE SPEED, WHETHER THE REAR LADDER COULD BE OPENED IN FLIGHT, AND ALSO QUESTIONS CONCERNING LEAVING THIS TYPE OF AIRCRAFT BY PARACHUTTE. [REDACTED] ALSO COMMENTED IN REPLY TO CREWS STATEMENT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT
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TJM/ksw 164-81-99 (1) [signature] Ask SAC if Division [guess: covering] [REDACTED] should receive copy for info purpose.
Approved: ____[signature]____ Special Agent in Charge [guess: WA] 1:03 Sent M P - 1:15 AM Per DCA
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DB Cooper-1773
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b6 b7C
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date:
Transmit the following in _______________ (Type in plaintext or code) Via _______________ _______________ (Priority) -----------------------------------------------
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PAGE TWO SE 164-81
[REDACTED] WOULD BE b6 EASY. THESE QUESTIONS WERE REPORTED TO NORTHWEST AIRLINES SECURITY. b7C
INVESTIGATION, [REDACTED] WASHINGTON, DATE REFLECTS [REDACTED] DESC R/BEO AS SIX FOOT, ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY POUNDS, BROWN HAIR, [REDACTED] EYES, AND b6 CONTACT WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES FAMILIAR WITH [REDACTED] b7C [REDACTED] REFLECTS THAT [REDACTED] HAD OLIVE COMPLEXIONS AS DOES [REDACTED] AND HE COULD BE TAKEN FOR A PERSON OF LATIN EXTRACTION.
THE IDENTIFICATION DIVISION IS REQUESTED TO IMMEDIATELY CHECK FINGERPRINT CLASSIFICATION OF [REDACTED] TO ASCERTAIN IF THERE IS A b6 PHOTOGRAPH AT ANY LOCATION LATER THAN [REDACTED] b7C IF A PHOTOGRAPH IS FOUND, IT IS TO BE TELECOPIED TO THE MINNEAPOLIS AND SEATTLE DIVISIONS WHERE IT WILL BE VIEWED BY WITNESSES TO THE HIJACKING AND THE CREW MEMBERS. (P)
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Approved: _______________ Sent ___________M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge
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DB Cooper-1774
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-99