Seattle to Sacramento and San Francisco re search along hijack flight route (164-81-292)
Document date 30 November 1971
Also filed at: Part 114 pp. 68–70
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-111:062-064 Document: Teletype Seattle to Sacramento and San Francisco re search along hijack flight route (164-81-292) Id: Cooper-Part-111:062-064 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A062-064 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. 62–64 (DB Cooper-2220–2222), Teletype, dated 30 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-292 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A062-064
NR012 SE PLAIN 4:44PM URGENT 11/30/71 VAB TO SACRAMENTO (164-50) SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) FROM SEATTLE (164-81) 3P
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT NUMBER THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION; OO: SEATTLE.
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SEARCH OF AREA.
FAA, SEATTLE, ADVISES THAT THE HIJACKED AIRCRAFT FLEW ON VECTOR TWENTYTHREE FROM SEATTLE, SOUTH OF PORTLAND, EAST OF SALEM, OREGON, WEST OF EUGENE, OVER MEDFORD, OREGON, AND ON INTO REDBLUFF, CALI- FORNIA. AT REDBLUFF IT TURNED EAST TO FRENCHMAN'S RESERVOIR WHICH IS LOCATED AT THE COORDINATES, THIRTYNINE DEGREES FIFTYTWO MINUTES NORTH, AND ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DEGREES TWENTY MINUTES WEST, WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY THIRTY MILES NORTHWEST OF RENO, NEVADA, AT A POINT SOME FIVE MILES NORTH OF VINTON, CALIFORNIA. END PAGE ONE
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DB Cooper-2220 164-81-292
PAGE TWO 164-81
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SEATTLE IS SENDING TO ALL OFFICES TODAY AN AIRTEL CONTAINING BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND A SKETCH OF THE HIJACKER. IT IS EXPECTED THE BUREAU WILL BE PROVIDING ALL OFFICES WITH A FLIER AND AN ADDI- TIONAL SKETCH OF SUBJECT WITHOUT GLASSES.
A FACSIMILE COPY OF THE ABOVE-MENTIONED AIRTEL WILL BE SENT TO SACRAMENTO TODAY.
SEATTLE HAS CONCENTRATED ITS SEARCH IN THE SOUTHWESTERN PART OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON AS THIS WAS NORTHWEST AIRLINES BEST ESTIMATE OF WHERE SUBJECT DEPARTED THE PLANE; HOWEVER, SINCE SUBJECT HAS NOT YET BEEN LOCATED, A SEARCH OF THE ENTIRE ROUTE IS TO BE CONDUCTED.
PORTLAND DIVISION IS NOW CONDUCTING SUCH A SEARCH.
IF NOT ALREADY DONE, SACRAMENTO SHOULD INSTITUTE A SEARCH OF THE ROUTE TAKEN BY INSTANT AIRCRAFT IN THE SACRAMENTO DIVISION. EXACT ROUTE CAN BE OBTAINED FROM FAA BY SAN FRANCISCO.
SACRAMENTO IS REQUESTED TO ISSUE AN APB FOR THE STATE OF CALI- FORNIA SETTING OUT BACKGROUND OF THIS CASE, DESCRIPTION OF THE SUB- JECT, AND WITH A PARTICULAR REQUEST FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO BE
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DB Cooper-2221
PAGE THREE 164-81
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ALERT FOR ANY DEBRIS FROM THE AIRCRAFT, SPECIFICALLY THE ATTACHE CASE WHICH THE SUBJECT HAD ON BOARD. FOR SACRAMENTO'S ASSISTANCE, A COPY OF AN APB ISSUED AT SEATTLE WILL BE FURNISHED BY FACSIMILE.
SAN FRANCISCO, MAKING REFERENCE TO YOUR AIRTEL OF NOVEMBER TWENTYSEVEN, SEVENTYONE, IS REQUESTED TO OBTAIN A MAP OF THE EXACT ROUTE FLOWN WHILE OVER CALIFORNIA AND FURNISH TO SACRAMENTO FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE IN SEARCH. ALSO FURNISH SEATTLE WITH ONE COPY IF POSSIBLE. END
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MCC FBI SAN FRANCISCO
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DB Cooper-2222
Serials: SC 164-50, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-292, SF 164-220