(Seattle P-I) photo of Sea-Tac signboard with Al Watts hijacking timetable
Document date 25 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-53:165-166 Document: Clipping (Seattle P-I) photo of Sea-Tac signboard with Al Watts hijacking timetable Id: Cooper-Part-53:165-166 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-53%3A165-166 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 53 pp. 165–166 (DB Cooper-22503–22504), News clipping, dated 25 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-53%3A165-166
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--P-I Photo by Tom Barlet. SEA-TAC SIGNBOARD SAID NW FLIGHT 305 "DELAYED". Reason for late arrival was not given: hijack
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After the Fifth Landing, Plane's Routine Changed
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p. A9 Seattle Post- Intelligencer Seattle, Wash.
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Date: 11/25/71 Edition: Final Author: Al Watts Editor: Dick Lyall Title: UNSUB;Northwest Airlines,Flight 305 Portland to Seattle Character: 11/24/71 or CAA-HIJACKING;EXT Classification: 164-81 Submitting Office: Seattle
☐ Being Investigated
COPY SENT TO BUREAU
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[illegible stamps] FBI — SEATTLE DB Cooper-22503
BY AL WATTS P-I Aerospace Writer
Flight 305, Northwest Airlines' cross-country "milk run," made five of its six stops without incident yesterday.
But after its fifth landing, at Portland, on a continent-spanning trip, the Boeing 727 trijet was reported to have a hijacker among its 36 passengers.
A timetable of the major developments of the ill-fated flight which originated in Washington, D.C., (with stops at Minneapolis, Great Falls, Missoula, Spokane and Portland), and was to have terminated in Seattle.
2:58 P.M. — Plane took off from Portland International.
3:26 P.M. — Federal Aviation Administration received word that Northwest Airlines Flight 305 had a hijacker with an explosive device aboard.
3:30 P.M. — Hijacked plane due to land at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
3:30-5:25 p.m. — Commandeered jet in holding pattern over area 25 miles north of Seattle.
5:42 p.m. — Plane landed at Sea-Tac and parked in darkened area on south end of new westside runway a third of a mile from terminal.
5:55 p.m. — Passengers allowed to deplane, but crew of six (including three stewardesses) remained aboard and hijacker was given $200,000 in ransom money.
6:45 p.m. — Two stewardesses allowed to leave plane while third remained behind as hostage of hijacker.
7:41 p.m. — Plane took off from Sea-Tac after refueling and negotiations with hijacker.
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DB Cooper-22504
Serials: SE 164-81