Re crew accounts of the Flight 305 hijacking (Seattle Times)
Document date 26 November 1971
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 53 p. 145, News clipping, dated 26 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-53%3A145-145
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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Jet crew doesn't know where hijacker jumped
Crew members of a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 jet hijacked Wednesday said in Minneapolis today they had no idea when the hijacker parachuted from the plane, with his $200,000 ransom on a flight from Seattle to Reno. (However, the last communication between the hijacker and the crew was while the plane was over Clark County. This resulted in an intensive search of the area around Woodland. See A 7.)
"We first knew that he was not aboard when we arrived in Reno," Capt. William Scott, Medicine Lake, Minn., pilot of the plane told the United Press International. He said that the hijacker said his final destination was Mexico.
"When we landed at Reno, we thought he still was aboard," Scott said. "We were trying to call him on the P. A. (public address) system. I stepped into the cabin and asked if there were any more instructions, but there was no answer. I looked around the curtain and determined he was not there."
The curtain separates the first-class and coach compartments on the plane. Scott said the flight crew "never left the cockpit. The flight crew never saw the man."
A STEWARDESS, Tina Mucklow, 22, Richfield, Minn., who remained with the hijacker while the other two stewardesses and 30 passengers disembarked at Seattle, said she sat with him for about four hours on his orders.
"I just kept communicating with the cockpit," she said. "Anything he asked for, I passed on to the cockpit."
"He was not nervous, He seemed rather nice, and he was never cruel or nasty," she said.
The hijacker had ordered the flight down at Seattle to pick up the ransom money and four parachutes. The plane then headed for Reno. Scott said it flew at about 180 knots at about 10,000 feet altitude most of the time. Scott said the hijacker did not specify the route.
ASKED if there was any attempt to stop the hijack attempt while the plane was on the ground, the first officer, William Rataczak, Burnsville, Minn., said there was
not. "He relayed his requests, and his requests were met," he said.
Scott said one of the most tense moments in the ground halt at Seattle was a delay in fueling, apparently because of a vapor lock in one of the lines.
Miss Mucklow, discussing the time interval in which the hijacker jumped, said that "right after the takeoff (from Seattle) he said, 'Go to the cabin, pull the curtain, and don't come back.'" She said she obeyed him.
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p. A1 Seattle Times Seattle, Wash.
Date: 11/26/71 Edition: Final Author: Editor: Henry McLeod Title: UNSUB; Northwest Airlines, Flight 305 Portland to Seattle, Character: 11/24/71 or CAA-HIJACKING; EXT Classification: 164-81 Submitting Office: Seattle
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Serials: SE 164-81