Seattle to Director re back and chest parachutes, including training chute rigged inoperable
Document date 29 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-64:206-207 Document: Teletype Seattle to Director re back and chest parachutes, including training chute rigged inoperable Id: Cooper-Part-64:206-207 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-64%3A206-207 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. 206–207 (DB Cooper-27048–27049), Teletype, dated 29 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-157 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-64%3A206-207
NR005 SE PLAIN 10:21 AM URGENT 11-29-71 TO DIRECTOR FROM SEATTLE (164-81) 2P
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTYONE. CAA DASH HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.
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REBUCALL TODAY.
LAS VEGAS NITEL TO BUREAU AND SEATTLE, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER TWENTYSIX LAST, TRANSMITTED ELEVEN FIFTYTWO P.M., REVEALS THAT ONE CHEST PACK AND ONE BACK PACK PARACHUTE FOUND IN FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE ON LANDING IN RENO, NEVADA. EXAMINATION OF BACK PACK PARACHUTE BY MILITARY EXPERT REVEALED IT WAS IN USABLE CONDITION AND COMPLETE AND OPERABLE IN ALL DETAILS. CHEST PACK PARACHUTE OF BRIGHT PINK, ORANGE COLOR, DETERMINED BY MILITARY EXPERTS TO BE IN OPERABLE CONDITION. HOWEVER, IT WAS OPENED WITH THE DROUGE CHUTEMISSING IN THE AIRPLANE.
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EARL J. COSSEY, MASTER PARACHUTE RIGGER AND CHIEF RIGGER FOR SEATTLE SKY SPORTS, ISSAQUAH, WASHINGTON, ADVISED THAT HE
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Sub. D 164-81-157 DB Cooper-27048
PAGE TWO SE 164-81
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PERSONALLY RIGGED A CHEST PACK PARACHUTE WHICH WAS USED FOR TRAINING PURPOSES, SEWING THE PARACHUTE PACK UP IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT WAS COMPLETELY INOPERABLE AS A PARACHUTE.
THIS PARTICULAR PARACHUTE, ACCORDING TO COSSEY, IS ONE OF THE TWO CHEST PACK PARACHUTES THAT WERE DELIVERED TO THE WASHINGTON STATE PATROL FOR DELIVERY TO THE NORTHWEST AIRLINES FOR DELIVERY TO THE HIJACKER.
SINCE FOUR PARACHUTES WERE GIVEN TO THE HIJACKER, TWO CHEST PACKS, TWO BACK PACKS, AND SINCE ONE CHEST PACK AND ONE BACK PACK CHUTE WERE FOUND IN THE PLANE, IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THE ONE CHEST PACK CHUTE MISSING WOULD HAVE TO HAVE BEEN USED BY THE HIJACKER. THE SECOND BACK PACK CHUTE PROVIDED THE HIJACKER WAS OPERABLE.
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GXC BI WASHDC
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DB Cooper-27049
Serials: SE 164-81, SE 164-81-157