Interview of FAA official re Northwest Airlines Flight 305 air-ground communications
Interviewed 30 December 1971Dictated 30 December 1971Transcribed 5 January 1972
Also filed at: Part 65 p. 371 · Part 67 p. 203 · Part 72 p. 66 · Part 110 p. 195 · Part 112 p. 19
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-36:013-013 Document: FD-302 interview of FAA official re Northwest Airlines Flight 305 air-ground communications Id: Cooper-Part-36:013-013 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-36%3A013-013 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 36 p. 13 (DB Cooper-6236), FD-302 interview, interviewed 30 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-8107 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-36%3A013-013
FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70)
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
b6 Per FAA b7C
Date of transcription 1/5/72
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[REDACTED] Area Officer B, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center, Auburn, Washington, provided a transcription prepared by his office of tape recordings of transmissions between the Auburn center and Northwest Airlines Flight #305, which was under hijack on November 24, 1971.
[REDACTED] advised that the original tapes are b6 Per FAA maintained in his custody. b7C
[REDACTED] advised that the Seattle Center worked Flight #305 on the way in to Seattle from Portland, but had no indication that a hijack had occurred and the aircraft did not squawk any signal as to a hijack situation. They were not aware of the hijack until they handed off the plane to the Seattle-Tacoma Tower.
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[REDACTED] advised that after the plane took off from Sea-Tac on its way south toward Sacramento, California, b6 Per FAA the Auburn Center worked the flight from shortly after take- b7C off until they handed the flight off to the Oakland Center, which occurred at the Oregon-California border.
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In view of the fact that the times listed in the log provided by [REDACTED] are in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), an insertion has been made at least once in each page to b6 Per FAA convert the GMT to Pacific Standard Time. b7C
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Interviewed on 12/30/71 at Seattle, Washington File # SE 164-81-8107
by SA CHARLES E. FARRELL/klb Date dictated 12/30/71
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. DB Cooper-6236
Serials: SE 164-81-8107
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