Minneapolis to Seattle re crew member information
This copy: Part 11 p. 345Also filed at Part 65 p. 112 (primary)
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Minneapolis to Seattle re Flight 305 crew account of lighting and flight path
Document date 27 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-11:345-345 Document: Teletype Minneapolis to Seattle re Flight 305 crew account of lighting and flight path Id: Cooper-Part-11:345-345 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-11%3A345-345 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 p. 345 (DB Cooper-1820), Teletype, dated 27 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-21 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-11%3A345-345
NR001 MP PLAIN 314 PM URGENT 11-27-71 TJT TO SEATTLE (164-81) FROM MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) P
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.
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RE URTEL NOVEMBER TWENTYSIX LAST.
[REDACTED] ON CAPTIONED FLIGHT ADVISED THAT ALL LIGHTS EXCEPT NAVIGATIONAL LIGHTS WERE OFF SHORTLY AFTER TAKE OFF OUT OF SEATTLE. AT NO TIME DID THEY FLASH THEIR LIGHTS ON AND OFF DURING THE HIJACKING. [REDACTED] ADVISED THAT THEIR FLIGHT PATH WOULD HAVE BEEN APPROXIMATELY SEVEN NAUTICAL MILES FROM AMBOY, WASHINGTON AND THE PLANE WAS AT TEN THOUSAND FEET INDICATED EIGHT THOUSAND ABOVE GROUND, FLYING IN CLOUDS. THE FLASHING RADIO BEACON AT KALAMA, WASHINGTON WAS NOT OBSERVED SINCE THEY WERE IN THE SOUP, ON INSTRUMENTS.
[REDACTED] ADVISED CONTACTING THE PILOTS OF THE CHASE AIRCRAFT TO DETERMINE THEIR ALTITUDES AND LOCATION AT THIS TIME.
[REDACTED] ADVISED THAT THE REASON THEY NEVER FLASHED THEIR LIGHTS ON AND OFF WAS THEY NEVER WERE SURE HE WASN'T STILL ON BOARD UNTIL TOUCHDOWN AT RENO.
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P. END JFK FBI SEATTLE CLR
[Handwritten:] This was given morning 6 11-[illegible]7 [Stamp:] 1CC - SEARCH- [Handwritten:] sub. l [Stamp:] DB Cooper-1820 [Stamp:] 164 - 81 - /21 [Stamp:] SEARCHED___ INDEXED___ SERIALIZED___ FILED___ NOV 2 7 1971
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Serials: MP 164-73, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-21