/airtel SAC Seattle re Boeing 727 technical data on aft stairs

Document date 8 December 1971

Part 64page 71 pageDB Cooper-26693

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Document: Memo/airtel SAC Seattle re Boeing 727 technical data on aft stairs
Id: Cooper-Part-64:007-007
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 64 p. 7 (DB Cooper-26693), Memo, dated 8 Dec 1971, serial SE 164-81-1050 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-64%3A007-007

SAC (164-81)(P) 12/8/71

SA [REDACTED] b6 b7C

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305 PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71 RE: Boeing Technical CAA-HIJACKING; Data EXTORTION OO: SE RE: [REDACTED]

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On 12/2/71, [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Seattle, Washington, furnished the following information:

He was [REDACTED] [REDACTED] testing of this aircraft.

It is physically impossible to make a take-off in the 727 with the rear stairs extended. He explained that if this were attempted the stairs would strike the runway at the point of rotation just prior to liftoff.

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164-81-1050 SERIALIZED/FILED DEC 0 9 1971 FBI-SL

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JCN/djs (3)

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DB Cooper-26693

Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-1050