Las Vegas to Director and Seattle re FAA account of radio contact with hijacked Flight 305
Document date 29 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-111:046-047 Document: Teletype Las Vegas to Director and Seattle re FAA account of radio contact with hijacked Flight 305 Id: Cooper-Part-111:046-047 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A046-047 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 111 pp. 46–47 (DB Cooper-2107–2108), Teletype, dated 29 Nov 1971, serial 16-81-9NN (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A046-047
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NR006 LV PLAIN 11102 PM URGENT 11-29-71 GEJ TO DIRECTOR 164-2111 AND SEATTLE 164-81 FROM LAS VEGAS 164-60 2P
UNSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST AIRLINE FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE; CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.
RE BUREAU TELETYPE TO SEATTLE NOVEMBER TWENTYSIX LAST.
[REDACTED], FAA, RENO, NEVADA, THIS DATE MADE AVAILABLE TAPES OF RADIO CONTACTS WITH NORTHWEST (NW) FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST. TAPES INDICATE RENO DEPARTURE CONTROL (RADAR) MADE RADAR CONTACT WITH AIRCRAFT AT TEN THIRTYTWO P.M., PST, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST, AT WHICH TIME AIRCRAFT FORTYTWO MILES NORTHWEST OF RENO AND OVER FRENCHMAN'S RESERVOIR, CALIFORNIA, ALTITUDE OF ELEVEN THOUSAND FEET. AT TEN THIRTYFIVE P.M., AIRCRAFT MADE VOICE CONTACT WITH RENO TOWER AND TOWER GAVE APPROACH INSTRUCTIONS. AIRCRAFT STATED "WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE BACK NOW" (INDICATING CONTACT WITH HIJACKER) AND THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GET THE STEPS END PAGE ONE
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16N-81- 9NN SEARCHED_____ INDEXED_____ SERIALIZED_____ FILED_____ NOV 29 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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b6 per FAA b7C per FAA
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DB Cooper-2107
PAGE TWO UP BEFORE LANDING.
AT TEN FORTYTHREE P.M., AIRCRAFT STATED UNABLE TO GET IN CONTACT WITH "HIM" (HIJACKER).
SUBSEQUENT TRANSMISSIONS INDICATE CREW UNABLE TO RAISE HIJACKER AND THAT THEY WOULD LAND WITH STAIRS EXTENDED.
NO INFORMATION INDICATING HIJACKER ABOARD AIRCRAFT OR EXITED AIRCRAFT AFTER AIRCRAFT IN CONTACT WITH RENO TOWER.
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FBI SEATTLE CLR
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DB Cooper-2108