Seattle re search operations and reconstruction of hijacked aircraft flight path
This copy: Part 64 pp. 199–200Also filed at Part 11 pp. 92–93 (primary) · Part 66 pp. 83–84
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SAC Seattle to Director re aerial and ground search and reconstructed flight path
Document date 26 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-64:199-200 Document: Teletype SAC Seattle to Director re aerial and ground search and reconstructed flight path Id: Cooper-Part-64:199-200 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-64%3A199-200 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. 199–200 (DB Cooper-27041–27042), Teletype, dated 26 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-198 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-64%3A199-200
FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date: 11/26/71
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Via TELETYPE URGENT (Priority)
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TO : DIRECTOR, FBI
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)(-P-)
UNKNOWN SUBJECT; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SE.
AIR SEARCH CONDUCTED IN AREA WHERE HIJACKER BELIEVED TO HAVE LEFT PLANE, UTILIZING TWO ARMY HELICOPTERS FROM GRAY FIELD; ONE WEYERHAUSER COMPANY HELICOPTER AND ONE BONNEVILLE POWER ADM., HELICOPTER. FOR PURPOSE OF SEARCH, AREA WAS DIVIDED INTO SIX SECTIONS AND DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS, ONLY THREE WERE COVERED TODAY. SEARCH WAS NEGATIVE. A LIMITED GROUND SEARCH ALSO CONDUCTED WHICH WAS NEGATIVE, EXCEPT FOR [redacted] NORTHEAST QUADRANT OF THE SEARCH AREA, WHERE TWO INDIVIDUALS MADE COMMENTS CONCERNING A LOW FLYING AIRPLANE AT THE PERTINENT TIME, BUT SAW NOTHING DROPPING FROM PLANE.
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RELATIVE TO SUSPECT [redacted] PHOTO DISPLAYED WITH OTHERS, TO WITNESS [redacted] AND [redacted] WN., SEATTLE,/WHO ADVISED PHOTO OF [redacted] DEFINITELY NOT IDENTICAL. HE STATED HIJACKER HAD A MUCH BROADER FACE AND NOSE. PHOTO OF [redacted] BEING DISPLAYED TO OTHER WITNESSES.
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PRB:klb (1) Approved: [signature] Sent 9:45 M Per [initials] Special Agent in Charge
Sub. D 164-81-198 DB Cooper-27041
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ANALYSIS OF FLIGHT PATH OF AIRPLANE, UPON LEAVING and SEATTLE, FLIGHT LOGS PROVIDED BY NORTHWEST AIRLINES, SEATTLE AND MINNEAPOLIS, WOULD SUGGEST THAT UNSUB IN AIRPLANE AS LATE AS TIME PLANE PASSED OVER CAMP, WASHINGTON, AT EIGHT ZERO FIVE PM. SUBSEQUENT ENTRIES REFLECT OSCILLATION [guess: INCEABEN] AT EIGHT TEN PM, AT WHICH TIME PLANE IN AREA APPROXIMATELY TWO TO THREE MILES SOUTHWEST BY WEST FROM LAKE MERWIN DAM, WASHINGTON. PARACHUTE EXPERTS ADVISE THAT PARACHUTES LEAVING PLANE AT THAT POINT WOULD DRIFT APPROXIMATELY TWO AND ONE HALF MILES EAST, THEREFORE SEARCH IN THIS AREA BEING INTENSIFIED AM OF TWENTYSEVEN INSTANT VIA HELICOPTERS AND GROUND SEARCH. HELICOPTER SEARCH BEING MADE CONTINGENT UPON WEATHER PERMITTING. UPON RECEIPT OF ARTISTS CONCEPTION, INTEND TO GIVE WIDE DISSEMINATION TO PRESS, CONTACTS WILL BE MADE WITH AIRPORTS, FLIGHT SCHOOLS, PARACHUTE CLUBS IN BROAD GENERAL VICINITY.
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Approved: _______________ Sent _______________M Per _______________ Special Agent in Charge DB Cooper-27042
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-198