Re telephonic instructions from Northwest Airlines on approaching hijacked aircraft at Reno
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Re NWA/United Airlines communications during hijacking of Flight 305
Interviewed 24 November 1971Dictated 26 November 1971
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-66:015-016 Document: FD-302 re NWA/United Airlines communications during hijacking of Flight 305 Id: Cooper-Part-66:015-016 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-66%3A015-016 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 66 pp. 15–16 (DB Cooper-27704–27705), FD-302 interview, interviewed 24 Nov 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-66%3A015-016
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date 11/26/71
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[REDACTED], Northwest Airlines, Seattle, Washington, telephonically contacted SA [REDACTED] [REDACTED] at United Airlines, Reno, Nevada, and furnished the following information:
The Boeing 727 aircraft, formerly Northwest Airlines Flight 305, had been hijacked earlier in the day while en route to Seattle, Washington, from Portland, Oregon. The airplane landed at Seattle where the hijacker requested $200,000.00 and four parachutes, two chest packs and two back packs. After the money was delivered to the hijacker in a knapsack, passengers and two of the stewardesses were allowed to deplane.
At Seattle the hijacker had specified there were to be no police or fire equipment when the plane landed. He requested an unmarked car and a representative of the airline would be allowed to approach the aircraft from a ten o'clock relative position. The only other equipment to go near the aircraft was to be the air stairs and refueling equipment.
At takeoff the hijacker had directed the aircraft to be flown at 10,000 feet with the rear door down, and flaps and landing gear down.
[REDACTED] requested the following:
1. No equipment with beacon lights be in evidence at Reno Airport when the aircraft landed.
2. No uniformed officers or crowds of spectators be visible from the aircraft.
3. That [REDACTED] United Airlines [REDACTED] and one other individual, who could be an FBI Agent, meet the aircraft on landing in an unmarked automobile and that this automobile approach the aircraft from a relative position of ten o'clock
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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIAL'D _____ FIL.D _____ [illegible date stamps] FBI - S[illegible]
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On 11/24/71 at Reno, Nevada File# LV 164-60 164-81 - [guess: LHob] sub. by SA [REDACTED] - tlw Date dictated 11/26/71
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
DB Cooper-27704
LV 164-60 2
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4. Following the unmarked car was to be an air stairs with one man on it in the event access was needed to the cabin of the aircraft by a means other than the rear stairway.
5. Following the air stairs a fuel truck with two other fuel trucks standing by for use when the first truck was empty. There should be only one man in each fuel truck.
6. That no attempt be made to board the aircraft while the crew was aboard unless it had been determined that the hijacker was surrendering or had departed the aircraft.
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[REDACTED] further advised the aircraft would take on 50,000 pounds of fuel and would proceed wherever directed by the hijacker. [REDACTED] said he thought the next stop for the aircraft after Reno would be Yuma, Arizona.
[REDACTED] said there were three pilots and a stewardess still aboard the 727.
[REDACTED] was unable to furnish an estimated time of arrival in Reno, Nevada.
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DB Cooper-27705