Letter

To SA Farrell, FBI Seattle, requesting flight data on the Cooper skyjacking

Document date 10 December 1976

Part 65page 1991 pageDB Cooper-1, DB Cooper-27490

Part of: Citizen letter to SA Farrell, FBI Seattle, requesting hijacking details, with mailing envelope · 10 December 1976 · Part 39 pp. 8–9

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 65 p. 199 (DB Cooper-1, DB Cooper-27490), Letter, dated 10 Dec 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-65%3A199-199

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Charles E. FarrellFBI agentD.B. CooperSuspect
PagePart 65 p. 199DB Cooper-1DB Cooper-27490

December 10, 19[illegible]

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Mr. Farrell Federal Bureau of Investigation 915 2nd Avenue Seattle, Wash 98174

Dear Mr. Farrell:

RE: Telephone conversation 9:20 a.m. this date

The following is information I need to solve the skyjacking involving North West Air Lines in 1971, by Cooper:

1. Date of skyjacking.

2. Time 727 jet was airborn (air strip).

3. Compass heading after level flight.

4. Compass heading when skyjacker finished adjustment of personal effects.

5. Time skyjacker disappeared from sight on plane.

6. Time skyjacker was definitely not on plane.

7. When act occurred, elevation of plane starting at zero level; ground level temperature; and barometric reading.

8. Wind knots, and direction.

9. Whether he had 1 or 2 parachutes; weight of chute(s); weight of money; approximate weight of clothing and boots.

10. Estimate of height and weight of skyjacker.

Sincerely,

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[redacted sender name - b6/b7C] Sub E [date stamp partially legible: 64-81-[illegible]]

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FOOTNOTE: Did anyone happen to notice if he had a [guess: freefall] deverter, which is a webbing that goes between the legs, [partially obscured by stamps] anything that looked like a triangle with material the edges.

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