Seattle to Cincinnati re parachute rigging details in NORJAK hijacking
Document date 30 November 1971
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Id: Cooper-Part-64:191-192
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-64:191-192 Document: Teletype Seattle to Cincinnati re parachute rigging details in NORJAK hijacking Id: Cooper-Part-64:191-192 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-64%3A191-192 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 64 pp. 191–192 (DB Cooper-27030–27031), Teletype, dated 30 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-64%3A191-192
NP004 SE PLAIN 10:46AM URGENT 11/30/71 VAB TO CINCINNATI FROM SEATTLE (164-31)
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SE- ATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTOR- TION. OO SEATTLE.
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REURTEL THIRTIETH INST. RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS ARE:
1. THERE IS NO SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AS TO WHAT PREVIOUS EXPER- IENCE UNSUB HAS AS PARACHUTE JUMPER.
2. AND 3. UNSUB REQUESTED AND WAS FURNISHED TWO BACK PACK AND TWO CHEST PACK PARACHUTES. BACK PACK USED DESCRIBED AS STANDARD NB SIX PAREN NAVY BACK PACK SIX END PAREN CONTAINER AND HARNESS. STANDARD LENGTH SHROUD LINES. CANOPY IS TWENTYEIGHT FT. NYLON FLAT CIRCULAR NOT MODIFIED PAREN NO STEERABLE HOLES END PAREN. PARACHUTE
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Sub. A 164-81-[illegible] DB Cooper-27030
PAGE TWO 164-81
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MATERIAL DESCRIBED AS ONE POINT ONE OUNCES. PARACHUTE RIGGER WHO PACKED CHUTE STATES CONTAINER NORMALLY HAS TWENTYSIX FOOT CHUTE, HOWEVER, HE PACKED TWENTYEIGHT FOOT CHUTE IN CONTAINER BACK PACK, DID NOT HAVE TYPE HARNESS AND NECESSARY GEAR TO ATTACH CHEST PACK. CHEST PACK TAKEN BY UNSUB WAS INOPERABLE DUMMY TRAINING PARACHUTE. 4. UNSUB ESTIMATED TO BE IN MID FORTY'S, FIVE FEET TEN TO SIX FEET, ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY TO ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY POUNDS. 5. UNSUB BELIEVED TO HAVE CARRIED A SMALL ATTACHE CASE. WEIGHT OF MONEY GIVEN TO HIM AND BAG WAS NINETEEN POUNDS. 6. GROUND WINDS WERE IN VICINITY OF THIRTY MILES SOUTHWEST. 7. UNSUB IS BELIEVED TO HAVE JUMPED AROUND EIGHT TEN P.M. 8. ESTIMATE GROUND WIN TEN TO FIFTEEN KNOTS FROM THE WEST.
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BJE FBI CI CLR
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DB Cooper-27031